December 2011
4 posts
Responsive Web Design: Standard or Feature? →
The folks at Paper Leaf have put together an overview of the things web agencies must consider when determining their approach to responsive web design.
It’s a tough question, and one that agencies need to ask themselves. Are responsively-designed websites a standard feature included in all website projects (which necessitates an increase in price), or are they an add-on that clients can...
"Facebook's "frictionless" sharing doesn't enhance...
The quote above from The end of social totally sums up how I feel about Facebook’s new frictionless sharing: automatically posting read news, watched movies, or listened-to songs.
Facebook’s real value comes from Likes. When a friend shares something, it means they’ve put their seal of approval on it. “This is a good thing.” And, in todays world of...
Writing an Interface →
A great checklist of things to consider when writing microcopy — buttons, help text, and success/error messages — for your website or application.
Microcopy is an often neglected aspect of user interface design. It’s tempting to provide generic button text (“Save”, “Cancel”) or form labels (“Blog title”, “Email”) and leave it at that.
But...
Watch
Bruce is an award winning animation that explores how advances in open-source synthetic biology allow a young man to grow his very own action hero from a lump of minced meat.
Just awesome. You can read more about this project and see other spectacular animation work in the Animade portfolio.