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Ethan Marcotte: The Boston Globe : Ethan Marcotte, who was an important member of a team full of important members, describing the anticipation leading up to the responsive overhauling of BostonGlobe.com : It’s been kind of a weird experience, talking publicly for the better part of this year about a site that hadn’t yet launched. I mean, I was—and still am—incredibly proud of the small contributions I made, of the talented team I collaborated with, but still: talking about a site that hasn’t launched yet? There’s some part of me that’s felt, well, odd about that. What if people’s expectations aren’t met? What if we can’t deliver? What if the Internet gets hit by an exploding unicorn and we somehow don’t finish the project because NO MORE INTERNET YOU GUYS…… Read the rest here

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In the course of experimenting with some new artistic scripts to follow up “ Spinning the Web “, I ran across an interesting interaction between positioning and transforms. Put simply: as per the Introduction of the latest CSS 2D Transforms draft , a transformed element creates a containing block for all its positioned descendants. This occurs in the absence of any explicit positioning of the transformed element. Let’s walk through that. … Read the rest here

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Retiring Jobs’ Number : Rob Cottingham: The debate will rage for a long time over what piece of technology best encapsulates Steve Jobs’ influence on our world: The iPhone? iPod? iMac? iPad? OS X and Aqua? But I’m going to argue for something a lot more low-tech: the turtleneck… Read the rest here

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Lovely new Vintage series covers for Oliver Sacks designed in-house by Cardon Webb. via John Gall … Read the rest here

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Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader : Neato. An in-browser reader. Now I can read my Kindle books on every piece of Apple hardware I own. Update: @ nicjohnson informs me they’ve already got Kindle for Mac in the App Store, while John Gruber explains why a non-native web app is probably a response to Apple’s new rules . … Read the rest here

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Hiring: Front-End Designer/Developer at Roland : I’ve played a number of Roland keyboards over the years (I play only a little piano, and mostly by ear). The touch-sensitivity nearly rivals that of a real piano. And I swoon over their V-Drum kits every time I’m in a music shop, equally matching the sensitivity and touch of a “real” kit. This is a contract position in Los Angeles and involves work on the company’s web properties, including mobile. jQuery/HTML/CSS know-how a must. … Read the rest here

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HOW Interactive Design Conference, November 2-4 : HOW Magazine , synonymous with excellent graphic design and the exposition thereof, understands the challenges facing the modern print designer. Many have begun embracing interactive design, whether by choice or necessity. In a major way this Fall, HOW will broaden its coverage of all things design and assist traditional graphic designers in making a successful transition to (or simply adoption of) web design. The HOW Interactive Design Conference is a three-day event in San Francisco. I’m honored to not only be on the speaker roster but on the advisory board for the event, as well. Please consider joining us, or pass this along to a design friend who’s ready to make the leap. … Read the rest here

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Web Typography for the Lonely : “…aims to excite designers about the possibilities of cutting-edge web standards and javascript through beautiful and inspiring typographic explorations.” Complete with downloadable code, and cleverly written by Christopher Clark. From the Coolinate page: I am very aware that Coolinate is a dumb name for anything ever. Sadly, my other ideas— Line-shadowify, Manystuffify, and Bloginate — all seemed dumber. There weren’t many options really. Putting some lines under text isn’t an activity that conjures epic war-hero-style action verbs… Read the rest here

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Now available: the results from the A List Apart Survey for People Who Make Web Sites, 2010 . This is the fourth industry snapshot we’ve compiled, and the story that’s emerged over that time is proving to be pretty consistent. You can get a high-level view from the Introduction , and then dive deeper into the results in the following chapters. And, as is traditional, the Addendum contains links to the full (anonymized) data set in three formats for your own analytical investigations. We’d love to see what you come up with! Something that surprised me quite a bit was that in 2010 we got about half the number of respondents we’ve gotten in past years—not quite seventeen thousand participated in 2010 instead of just over thirty thousand as we saw in previous years. I’m not quite sure what to make of that… Read the rest here

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I can’t wait to give these away (Apple guidelines duly noted ). The boxes above have been in my office for more than a month. This Friday at midnight Eastern time the Authentic Jobs Touchscreen Tussle contest ends, and shortly after an iPad 2 with (RED)™ Smart Cover will be awarded to three of you. I hope it’s you. And you and you… Read the rest here

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Today! Ethan Marcotte ‘s brilliant book for A Book Apart is available for purchase . You need to go buy it. Responsive Web Design is not just an assembly of technologies, but rather a new way of approaching designing for the web. To say this book is important would be an understatement. I had the pleasure of doing the technical review of the book. Doing a technical review of anything Ethan writes is bit like trying to find an out-of-place note on Sgt… Read the rest here

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WWDC 2011: Everything in One Handy List : A list by Nancy Messieh for those of us who missed yesterday’s Apple keynote. I opted to not watch the keynote and spare myself a couple hours of work time. Since then, I’ve probably spent at least an hour trying to find and digest all the announcements I missed. I’m not convinced skipping the keynote really saved me any time. (The keynote video is also available. … Read the rest here

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Can CSS create art? That’s a question I set out to explore recently, and I like to think that the answer is yes. You can judge for yourself: Spinning the Web , a photo set on Flickr. To be clear, when I say “Can CSS create art?” I don’t mean that in the sense of wondering if art, or artful designs, can be accomplished with CSS. … Read the rest here

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Activate : What a terrific idea (and site). Get geeks out of the office and into the outdoors. A full-day event for web designers and developers in Kent, England. I vote for holding the next one in Escalante, Utah . Anyone game? … Read the rest here

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So I’ve been learning the banjo. At the beginning of 2011, I set out to learn something new—something that had nothing to do with pixels, browser bugs, typing, or angle brackets. I’m not calling it a resolution, as I can’t think of another resolution I’ve ever followed through on completely. But I’ve fallen through on the banjo. Specifically, clawhammer banjo, which is an old time style of playing without finger picks… Read the rest here

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A few months ago I tweeted that we no longer needed to sell User Experience and our job was now to focus on delivering good user experiences. A few people asked me to expand on my thinking, so this quick post is in reference to that. I’ve been running a User Experience Agency now for nearly six years. When we started almost nobody I spoke to had heard of the term user experience, let alone understood what a user experience consultancy did. There were a handful of agencies offering “UX services” in the UK, but most were really usability companies. As such we rarely, if ever, came up against other agencies offering a similar service to our own… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

A few months ago I tweeted that we no longer needed to sell User Experience and our job was now to focus on delivering good user experiences. A few people asked me to expand on my thinking, so this quick post is in reference to that. I’ve been running a User Experience Agency now for nearly six years. When we started almost nobody I spoke to had heard of the term user experience, let alone understood what a user experience consultancy did. There were a handful of agencies offering “UX services” in the UK, but most were really usability companies… Read the rest here

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Hashbangs . Yes, again. This is important, dammit! When the topic first surfaced, prompted by Mike’s post on the subject , there was a lot of discussion. For a great impartial round-up, I highly recommend two posts by James Aylett : Wisdom comes from genuine reflection and Client-side routing, the teenage years . There seems to be a general concensus that hashbang URLs are bad. Even those defending the practice portray them as a necessary evil… Read the rest here

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Left to right, top to bottom: Yours Truly, Khoi Vinh, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Greg Storey, Myles Grant, Veerle Pieters, Roger Johansson, Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain, Jeff Croft, Marc Roberts, Ben Bodien, Sarah Parmenter, Elliot Jay Stocks, Jon Hicks. I have the incredible fortune of working with the all-star team pictured above. Some serve as advisors, others actively create and maintain things. Together we’ve collaborated on a new version of Authentic Jobs that’s realigned, responsive, and better suited to connecting companies and creative professionals. Read the official announcement over at the Authentic Jobs blog regarding the new site, Authentic Jobs UK, and the iPad contest. You’ll also find additional remarks by Veerle Pieters , Sarah Parmenter , and Elliot Jay Stocks . … Read the rest here

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CSS Mask-Image & Text : Here’s something I wasn’t aware of: Add a texture to HTML text using the CSS property mask-image and a transparent PNG. Currently works only in WebKit but degrades nicely for other browsers. Thanks, Trent. … Read the rest here