Each week, we do a round up of curated “stuff from the interwebs” that we call Radar.
Time for Flexbox First
The web development community has a habit of declaring “firsts” those practices and approaches that reach some ill-defined status signaling they are the go-to way to solve a particular problem. We’ve seen “mobile first” and, more recently, “offline first.” With Flexbox, we have a set of rules for a reasonable layout we can apply to our whole site, to the unique layouts of special pages, and to the interactive layouts of widgets across our projects.
CovergeSE Workshop: Using Content Models To Improve Quality & Consistency
Are you tired of launching a site with perfect content, only to see it slowly degrade over time? Breaking your site content down into its component parts and writing custom editorial guidelines is one of the best ways to help authors create content that consistently meets business and user goals.
Eileen Webb- Director of Strategy & Livestock at webmeadow. We do solar-powered content strategy and project production. Also, poultry!
With Accelerated Mobile Pages Coming This Month, Google Aims to Reinvent the Mobile Web
Search Giant Tries to Invigorate Mobile Web, Where It Wants Consumers to Stay
How Adding One Button Increased Our Signups by 3x
We’ve run quite a few experiments at Product Hunt in 2015 — however one of them stood out. Here’s how we tested the idea before implementing it.
Pressure.js
Pressure is a JavaScript library that makes dealing with Apple’s Force Touch and 3D Touch simple. Force Touch for new Macs and 3D Touch for the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, all bundled under one roof with a simple API that makes working with them painless.
Milligram
A minimalist CSS framework
Deep Dive into Grid Layout Placement
Comprehensive review of the different methods provided by CSS Grid Layout spec for items positioning.
Design Leaders Answer – What’s the Biggest Problem in Our Industry
This is the first article in a new column about design leadership. We’ve asked a handful of design leaders to respond to prompts each week. This week’s prompt was “What is the biggest problem in the design industry?”
iOS App Distribution in 7 Steps
Distributing an app is arguably the Achilles’s heel of the iOS app development process – and Apple makes us feel dumb at times. Provisioning profiles, certificates, device registrations, app ids, oh my!
Choosing and pairing typefaces for cookbooks
We teach a cookbook design class at TypeEd, which demonstrates how to set up a book proposal to pitch to a publisher and guides designers on how to format different types of content along the way. A common question we hear at the beginning of class is, “How do you choose typefaces?”
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Here’s the link to this week’s batch of goodness: Radar #135.
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