Web Design Trends 2015 – UMS Reader Thoughts

Web Design Trends 2015 – UMS Reader Thoughts

  At the end of December, we rolled out an article on Web Design Trends for 2015. In it, we took a stab at some of our staff’s picks for web design trends for this year, gave you some links to other articles on the subject, and then asked you to respond...
How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile

How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile

Hampton Catlin knows responsive web design. As the creator of Wikipedia Mobile, several successful iPhone applications, and the inventor of a CSS-generating language known as Sass, Catlin’s passion for better mobile user experiences comes through in everything he says...
SVG and the preserveAspectRatio Property

SVG and the preserveAspectRatio Property

  In a recent web project, decided to implement an idea for a giant beard that would grow with the page’s content. The site needed to be responsive and each page needed to accommodate a different amount of content. It would also need to accommodate...
Grunt While You Work

Grunt While You Work

The Problem The tools for producing web designs are improving every day. We’ve got incredible third party services to handle everything from hosting our content, to social coding. Production tools are also improving. Instead of CSS, we can use Sass to cut down...