Navigation, as crucial as it is to the user experience, is merely a means to an end — the end being to consume content. This is why users have very contrasting expectations about content and navigation. via Pocket

Мы все умеем пользоваться элементом <img>, ему уже двадцать лет в обед. Но за это время задачи поменялись, и старичок уже не справляется с адаптивным дизайном. Этой осенью новый элемент <picture> приедет в большинство популярных браузеров. Самое время разобраться, как он работает.

Комплексные решения для проектов в цифровой среде – от идеи до продвижения.

In his new book, “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks,” Keith Houston reveals the stories behind esoteric punctuation marks, from the pilcrow (¶) to the manicule (☞) to the octothorpe, a.k.a. the hashtag. Many of these have their roots in ancient Greece or Rome, and have evolved over time in Medieval religious texts, Renaissance scholarship, and modern printed works (not to mention the Internet). Here, Houston, who lives in Scotland and also runs a Shady Characters blog, tells the origin stories of some of these marks.

We see it every day on signs, billboards, packaging, in books and magazines; in fact, you are looking at it now — the Latin or Roman alphabet, the world’s most prolific, most widespread abc. Typography is a relatively recent invention, but to unearth the origins of alphabets, we will need to travel much farther back in time, to an era contemporaneous with the emergence of (agricultural) civilisation itself.

от пиктографического письма до Гражданской азбуки

We still build things the way machines read them - not the way we intuit them. Jeet allows you to express your page grid the same way a it. No more needlessly nesting elements. No more rigid twelve column rules. with less code, and more flexibility with

Like all good things in life, October can be understood at a glance. The principles it implements are natural and existed in programming for a long time. We've just collected and brought them into the realm of web development.

Pack up your content, markup, and style. Leave the database behind.

In 2012 and again in 2013, we ran a survey investigating the struggles of modern web design. More specifically, the surveys dug into responsive design, and how it affected workflow for web workers in all sorts of situations.

Верстку Pinterest считают одной из причин его популярности, она нравится многим дизайнерам и неоднократно использовалась в других проектах (например, для нижней части главной страницы «Рамблера» или нового сайта «Эха Москвы»). У этого способа представления есть ясные достоинства — например, он переносится в мобайл простым соединением колонок в одну (хотя это скорее особенность «карточного» представления информации).
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Если у анонса есть картинка (что почти обязательно при использовании такого дизайна), то она лишь иллюстрирует контент: в лучшем случае — обозначает тематику, в худшем — привлекает внимание сама по себе или просто занимает место.

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Бухвалова Юлия, Livejournal

Команда британского сайта электронного правительства Gov.uk опубликовала 10 принципов веб-дизайна, которые помогают создавать по-настоящему качественные продукты и сервисы.

Bad content, bad links, bad navigation, bad category pages... which is worst for business? In these examples, bad content takes the prize for costing the company the most money.
Every year, I see thousands of design mistakes in both user studies and everyday life. The curse of working with Don Norman is that half the elevator buttons I see make me angry: Why can't these guys do what Don told them to do 20 years ago?
Then again, Web designers don't do what I told them to do 13 years ago, so why am I surprised? Following is a modest harvest of design stupidities I've recently encountered.

Features in Sketch that make me feel I can’t never go back to Photoshop