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Trevor Davis made this plugin that allows you — surprise, surprise – to stick any element so it does not scroll off the view.
As we are all going to do mobile first soon, these printable free templates will come in handy.
Horace Dediu asks this question from the viewpoint of disruption theory, where if you are trying to make better something, that’s good enough from perspective of some customers, you are creating a room for being disrupted.
The clue to this experiment is the presence of a control group. We could test the question of absorbability by by keeping a version of the product which did not improve (or got cheaper) and measuring whether is performs better vs. the “improved” version.Of course, this is exactly what Apple does with the n-1 generation products. By ranging products which are older and at lower price points it can measure whether the improvements are valued.
I’ve been thinking more about how I review a design – both my own and someone else’s. So over the past couple days I’ve been writing down every question I’ve been asking when I look at a design-in-progress. Some of these I say out loud, some just go through my head, some are in person, others are posted to Basecamp or Campfire.These are in no particular order, and I don’t ask all of them every time.
John Gruber paints the picture of how different a game Amazon is playing.
It’s a heads we win, tails you lose strategy. That’s the brilliance. If you buy an iPad but use Amazon’s iOS apps to read Kindle books and watch movies through your Amazon Prime account, Apple wins but so too does Amazon. If you buy a Kindle Fire instead of an iPad, Apple gets nothing. Amazon wins so long as you consume media content from Amazon, no matter if you play it on a Kindle Fire or an iPad. Apple only wins if you buy an iPad.
I’m watching the Amazon’s kindle press event right now and as John points out, it’s definitely delivered too slowly.
Reading Cap Witkins’ essay “Death of the Free Web” I have a though that the once rogue 37signals-ish view, that there should be more web apps build for profit, is going mainstream? It’s about time, I suppose.
We’re discovering that you can’t create that sort of passion with free.
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And so we’ve begun searching for and creating services that not only solve problems, but also solve them in a way that puts the customer first. In doing so we’re creating smaller, but more lasting and passionate communities of people that believe not only in the products, but in the vision and principles behind them.The free web is dead. Good riddance.
Via @janrezac
In terms of images, the goal of web app developers is to serve the best quality images as efficiently as possible. This article will cover some useful techniques for doing this today and in the near future.
Informative article over at A List Apart by Peter Gasston takes you through relative size units, viewport-relative lengths, calculated values and more.
Funny illustration by Kevin Cornell included.
List of 20 well articulated points by Joshua Porter.
Ian Storm Taylor wrote a great piece about not using black (#000000) in your desings.
One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work. Mrs. Zamula, my childhood art teacher, first warned me about black when I was in middle school. And I heard the same again multiple times at RISD. It sounds weird at first, but it’s good advice.
Via @daeltar
Hakim strikes again, now with 3D menu concept. Just move your cursor to the left side of the page.
Eric Bidelman, senior developer programs engineer on the Google Chrome team, presents some practical uses of what’s possible with HTML5 and CSS3 today, including the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module and the HTML5 Filesystem API.
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
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
Good list, you may find some other resources in my Zootool bookmarks. Also, try searching “responsive tutorial” etc.
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.