As much as engineers like to joke about our counterparts in sales and marketing, the most successful sales and marketers think like engineers.
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That’s when I realized – it’s not just that developers don’t see themselves as potentially amazing marketers. They might not even realize how deep and interesting of a field marketing is.
— Tal Raviv writes on his Customers over code blog
Google-like search in the library of UI design elements, but wait, with source files such as PSD or HTML/CSS.
Online mobile interface prototyping tool. Even if you are not in it, just try it to see what an HTML5 web app could do.
Lightweight JavaScript library to draw graphs, using the HTML canvas element.
Nice collection by Awwwards Team.
Via @jiritvrdek
You know I’m big fan of Clayton Christensen’s disruption idea, this video is about much more personal strategy.
Combining typefaces is tricky so this post by Aura Seltzer on Typekit blog may come in handy.
Mr. Matteo Spinelli created nice add-to-home-screen script that may be useful to you if you have a mobile web app and want to let your users know, they could add it to their home screens.
That then allows your app to look like native app from their point of view.
Good list, you may find some other resources in my Zootool bookmarks. Also, try searching “responsive tutorial” etc.
Horace Dediu reports:
My thanks to Adam Lashinsky of Fortune for inviting me to Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen this week. I was asked to participate in a panel session with Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray to discuss “The Future of Apple”. The session was moderated by Adam.
Future of Apple from Fortune Conferences and Fortune Conferences on FORA.tv
The application cache manifest (ACM) offers developers a way to make their apps work offline, reduce bandwidth consumption, and load pages much faster. Local storage and WebSQL databases are also great ways to cache data on the client side, and this post will talk about the pros and cons of using each.
The Verge reviews most of the styluses on the market in a very in quite some detail.
Good work, guys!
Quick and easy way to build your product tours with Twitter Bootstrap Popovers.
HTML5 Sortable is a jQuery plugin to create sortable lists and grids using native HTML5 drag and drop API.
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Works in IE 5.5+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 3+, Safari 3+, and Opera 12+.
I guess many of you has seen this already. If you have not, do it now.
2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from San Francisco Creative Mornings on Vimeo.
Great overview of the topic by JT Mudge for Six Revisions.
Obviously, it’s hard to be objective in this sort of comparison, because some strengths could quickly turn into weaknesses for your given app and vice versa.
Nonetheless, this comparison, at the very least, puts your thinking in the right frame.
“All this stuff — completely alternative funding channels for content sites, fan-directed commissioned work, crowdsourced creative VC funds! — is way more radical and frankly more interesting than the standard Kickstarter model of ‘help me finish my movie’ or ‘help me print my book.’“Maybe none of it quite works yet,” adds Robin, “but maybe we might be just at the cusp.”