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Now Boarding
Before committing this past Friday evening to a flight down the west coast, I spent a bit of time preparing to try out something that I’d been curious about for a while. Could I get through US immigration and airport security both without a paper boarding pass? Of course these days it’s becoming more common to check in for a flight from a browser window and print out your own boarding pass before leaving for the airport, but I’ve been wondering why the printing part is necessary. I’ve heard reports of varying success from others who have attempted going purely electronically, so I made sure to have a paper backup in my bag for this one. Just in case… Read the rest here
New Issue: RESTful CSS
We a very interesting article this week from new contributor Steve Heffernan , who brings us REST ful CSS . Our last few CSS articles sparked quite a row in the comments, so I hope the same audience takes a long look at Steve’s proposals, even if web app languages like Ruby on Rails isn’t your day-to-day forte. CSS management is a growing issue as we make even greater advances in CSS techiques, JavaScript support and enhancement and rich interactions like web apps. … Read the rest here
Progress Report
Jason Santa Maria Go to the source
I’ve been experimenting with this new site of mine for about five months and I’m really happy with how things are progressing. The story so far I’m posting about as often as I ever have here, mostly because I’m a fantastically wishy washy and slow writer. Writing takes up the lion’s share of my time on any given post, with design and code amounting to a comfortable reprieve. I’m admittedly being very conscious of how much time I spend on design so that I can see how viable this is for publishing. Consequently, my designs are fairly minimalistic (though I am very pleased with a few entries ). I’ve continued to improve little corners of the site since launching, usually resulting a quiet posting week here and there. … Read the rest here
On activity- and user-centred design
Over on the IXDA mailing list, Jared Spool opened a discussion on Where that ACD thing fits in which he wonders what Activity-Centred Design (ACD) might be and where it fits into other design approaches. In the previous discussion of ACD versus UCD on this list, the focus has been defined simply: Someone practicing ACD focuses on the activities of the design, where someone practicing UCD focuses on the users. Some have said that ACD minimizes the need of doing personas (a ‘user-centered’ activity) and just looks at the underlying activities that are obvious to the design result. If one asserts that UCD is a collection of activities that go beyond ACD , looking at the goals, needs, and context of the user, beyond just that of the underlying activities, then I would say that ACD is just a lazy man’s UCD . In this context, Jared considers laziness to be a good thing, applauding ‘anyone who is creatively lazy, looking for ways reduce effort while producing more.’ Jared’s points reflect a conversation we occasionally have here at Clearleft . We say we do User-Centred Design (UCD), but ask ourselves if we really do ACD ? … Read the rest here
Adding Books to Coda
Here’s a feature introduced in Coda 1.5 that you many not have come across yet (after all the big focus of that release was SVN integration and global find/replace). The new books feature allows you to add new online reference and even reset the defaults if you wish. Let’s take Sitepoint’s excellent CSS reference as the example: First, Command-6 to go to the books view, and click the add icon bottom left. In the sheet that appears, enter the title and URL (e.g http://reference.sitepoint.com/css ). … Read the rest here
Reading immaterial
In an interview with Rolling Stone last year, William Gibson said: One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. Bear that dying distinction in mind when I tell you that Joe