Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Sep 22 2011
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I’ll have a little string of events I’ll be giving talks at.
Radio Buttons with 2-Way Exclusivity
Sep 20 2011
Let’s say you were tasked with creating a UI in which users can rate three candy bars from their most to least favorite. A grid of radio buttons isn’t a terrible way to go about this.
New Poll: What’s Your Favorite Page Title Separator?
Sep 19 2011
Just for silly kicks, let’s keep on with the page title polls, this time with perhaps the most trivial of all choices. The poll is embedded on the site in the sidebar. Let everyone know what your favorite page title separator is. The en-dash? The vertical pipe? THE DOUBLE COLON‽
Poll Results: Favorite Page Title Structure
Sep 19 2011
This was an interesting poll because there is no clear consensus on “the best way” for sites to handle page titles. It varies quite a bit even among similar websites.
Default Tab UI of the Current Desktop Browser Landscape
Sep 17 2011
I opened up the same 6 tabs in current versions of all the desktop browsers, then took screenshots of the UI of just the tabs themselves.
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Latest Screencast
#101: Let’s Suck at GitHub Together
You are probably pretty aware of why using version control is a good thing. In case you aren't, I quickly go through that in this video. Then we get into the most basic thing we can possibly do: put a project onto GitHub. If you are like me, you don't particularly enjoy "the command line", but between that and a Mac GUI app, we manage to get it done.
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Sencha Looks at IE 10 →
Michael Mullany:
...the IE10 HTML5 experience is one of the best we’ve seen on any platform to date.
I've heard from a number of folks that IE 10 will be the most advanced browser to date (support the most standards and new features). We'll see if this stays true when it actually ships.
Notable: transitions, transforms (2D and 3D), animations, shadows, gradients, flexbox and SVG filters.
Watch Ryan Singer Think Through a Design Problem →
High quality video training marketplace PeepCode has a series of screencasts called Play by Play where they record masters of their trade doing their thing.
In this one, we get to watch a user experience designer think through a design problem. This is the rarest of all design tutorials. I think it's because it feels weird both teaching and being taught this stuff directly, but watching people work it out themselves is instructional as heck.
CSSOff Kickoff on Oct. 20th! →
The PSD for the CSSOff is going to drop on October 20, 2011. You'll have exactly 2 weeks (until November 3) to code up and submit your final conversion. Follow the title link to the official page where you can check out the amazing prizes, read up on the rules, and sign up to compete.