April 2011
6 posts
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A designer by any other name...
Dmitry from ZURB is not happy with the term “User Experience Designer”:
How many of these positions are really web design, IA (information architecture), interaction design or another established craft, but filed under a buzzword name? Frankly, how can you design a user experience? Doesn’t it just happen?
First, I’ll note that I’m complicit for responding to this...
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Translation of General Misogyny to Uncomfortable... →
I spent a while writing a rebuttal of rather bullshit arguments from John O’Nolan and Matthew Donelly in response to Mike Monteiro’s criticism of the BuildConf line up, then I found this post by Faruk Ateş that says it much better. So I’m just going to link to it.
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Standards vs Best Practices
I can do some very inaccessible things in HTML5 that won’t trigger validity warnings, because the standards writers just didn’t think those issues mattered very much.
Marc Drummond is concerned about the progress of HTML5 away from enforcing good accessibility practices.
So far HTML5 has been aggresively pragmatic to ensure it was a standard that would actually be adopted. See the...
Livable = Boring?
This caught my eye a while back but I never got around to posting it, but after a long weekend of enjoying Berlin I’m back to thinking about it:
mid-sized cities in developed countries with relatively low population densities tend to score well by having all the cultural and infrastructural benefits on offer with fewer problems related to crime or congestion
I always see cities that...
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A Fresh Start
Redesigning blogs and personal sites seems to be a difficult pursuit for designers and it seems I’m no different. It doesn’t help that visuals are not my strong point. So, in the interests of practicing what I’ve preached I’m putting the what I have out there so that I can start work on the next version.
As a start I wanted this thing to be responsive, HTML5 and to use...
March 2011
4 posts
A new definition of open
From Bloomberg Businessweek:
From now on, companies hoping to receive early access to Google’s most up-to-date software will need approval of their plans. And they will seek that approval from Andy Rubin, the head of Google’s Android group.
Not that I don’t think it’s a bad idea, but it will make it harder criticize Apple from the position of being “open”.