New Things on Flux-Rad
Over the last couple weeks I’ve been doing some quiet backend updates on the site, and late last night I finally pushed a new site design. You’ll notice a lot more imagery, a responsive design, and...
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Beautiful Kindergartens
Via Timubktu, the most beautiful kindergartens in the world. Pictured above is Centro Infantil Municipal in El Chaparral, Granada, Spain. But having lived in Germany for a couple years, I want to be...
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Christina Song’s Animal Alphabet Print
I really love this cut paper animal print by Christina Song.
View ArticleResponsive Site Data: Doubling, Quadrupling Transactions
“Our work here isn’t the best example of Responsive Web Design – this was a case of Mobile Second as the secondary navigation will clearly demonstrate – but that’s part of what we like about the model....
View ArticleDesigning for the Modern Web
I’ll just put this right here: Designing for the Modern Web.
View ArticleDon’t just test your designs and sites, also test your assumptions.
LukeW’s notes on Zeldman’s talk “The 10 Commandments of Web Design”: “Don’t just test your designs and sites, also test your assumptions.”
View ArticleThe Mobile Internet
We need to embrace a device-agnostic approach to communicating with connected consumers and forget the idea of a “mobile Internet”. There is only One Web to experience. This wonderful article up at...
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Dana Chisnell on the State of Usability Testing
“Tasks aren’t what you think. They are the centerpiece of usability testing, but we are often asking people to pretend. People don’t come to technology with tasks in mind.” -Via Luke W
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Inaluxe: The Dwarf Emu
Love absolutely everything over at Inaluxe, particularly this emu. Can’t wait for their store to open up later this month!
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Stuart Patience
I’ve seen this illustration a few places, most recently this morning on Pinterest. And it’s kind of why I mostly hate Pinterest. Someone shared this with no attribution (fine, they didn’t know who it...
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“Spotify for Fonts”
Monotype has released a sort of Spotify for fonts with their master subscription service over at Fonts.com. The plan delivers “7,000 desktop fonts (delivered automatically on up to five workstations...
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Mural.ly
Mural.ly is the ‘Google docs for creative people’: a real time, web-based app that lets creative teams share a virtual mural. The walls are zooomable, can contain all kinds of web content (videos,...
View ArticleDavid Airey on Crowdsourcing Design
Airey: Design courses don’t have enough teaching about spec work. I remember when I was in formal education and my class had to work on a project for an outside client. The prize was to have your...
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Barthes Likes and Dislikes, Illustrated
Visit Brain Pickings to see the beautiful illustration of Barthes’ dislikes, also beautifully done by Lynore Avery.
View ArticleHoekman’s User Experience Tenets
Great piece by Robert Hoekman Jr. on Smashing Magazine offering thirteen essential tenets of user experience. My favorite is number one: User experience is the net sum of every interaction a person has...
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Griffin on Client Relationships & the Multi-Device Web
Matt Griffin: We start every project with a short, written specification that includes project goals, feature descriptions, site information architecture, a site map, and a branding profile. For a...
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