NationSwell is a new digital media company focused on high-quality stories about American renewal — about the new innovators, pioneers, and builders who are doing the most creative and impactful things to move America forward. We’re focused on identifying them, telling gripping stories about them, and mobilizing support behind them.

Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities. Gun violence touches every town in America. For too long, change has been thwarted by the Washington gun lobby and by leaders who refuse to take common-sense steps that will save lives.

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Django, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Laravel, Drupal—what do these platforms have that WordPress lacks? A template language.

If you’re considering ECommerce options in general, and especially WordPress ECommerce in particular, you may find yourself asking whether WooCommerce or Jigoshop is the best fit for your online storefront. Maybe these are the only two ECommerce solutions you’re considering, and just maybe you’re not even interested in reading a lengthy article comparing and contrasting and delving into the minutia of what are still two very similar options. If you’re merely looking for an anonymous opinion, or just the sort of person who likes to know the ending ahead of time, well, I’ll save the suspense:

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Особенности Хекслета: активное участие преподавателей, живое общение со студентами и концентрация на практических занятиях.

Design helps the systems of daily life run smoothly, letting users and readers ignore how things are put together. Design should sometimes announce itself in order to shed light on the system, exposing its construction, identity, personality, and politics.

Type on Screen: an uneasy relationship from the beginning

An “affordance” is a perceived signal or clue that an object may be used to perform a particular action. A chair sits at around knee height and appears to provide support. It affords sitting. A toothbrush has a handle a little longer than the human palm. It affords gripping. via Pocket

The long awaited follow-up to our all-time bestsellerThinking with Type is here. Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications. Covering a broad range of technologies, from electronic publications and websites to videos and mobile devices, this hands-on primer presents the latest information available to help designers make critical creative decisions, including how to choose typefaces for the screen, how to style beautiful, functional text and navigation, how to apply principles of animation to text, and how to generate new forms and experiences with code-based operations. Type on Screen is an essential design tool for anyone seeking clear and focused guidance about typography for the digital age.

If you think it’s crowded now, just wait! The Web is heading toward its own year-end calamity unless some skillful maneuvering is applied — quickly.

Animations are seen in many web sites throughout the Internet. Ease of use is considered as a possible reason for the growing use such multimedia feature in designing of web sites. While animations are ubiquitous in the Web environment, there is an inadequate understanding of its effect on user's attention. Animations are advantages of information technology for web designers, but important questions remain about whether animations work in all situations and for all users. Focusing on web animation, this paper reviews literature and at the end it extracts guide lines for better designing of websites.

Strategic use of animations and transitions can make your program easier to understand, feel smoother, more natural, and of higher quality, and be more engaging. But the gratuitous use of animations and transitions can make your program distracting and even annoying.

User interfaces are often based on static presentations, a model ill-suited for conveying change. Consequently, events on the screen frequently startle and confuse users.

The Interaction Design Lab is the research laboratory of the Interface Design programme at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. The lab is a space for international interaction design experts from industry and academia. It provides an interface between education, research and development, transfer of technology, design and knowledge and provides a space for multi-disciplinary projects.

Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones brought the world Gotham, Mercury, and Archer. They had one of the most successful—and lucrative—partnerships in type design. But one of them thought it wasn’t a partnership at all. via Pocket

Wish you were better/smarter/stronger/faster? Sure, hard work helps, but the truth is, your self perception may be getting in the way. We all form our own realities, and those realities aren't perfect. via Pocket

В ми­ре, где нас по­всю­ду окру­жа­ют зна­ки и сим­во­лы, най­дёт­ся вре­мя, что­бы узнать о них чуть боль­ше. «Шрифт» — элек­трон­ный жур­нал о шриф­те и ти­по­гра­фи­ке, язы­ке и вре­ме­ни, лю­дях и ви­зу­аль­ных тра­ди­ци­ях. Мы стре­мим­ся объ­еди­нить на стра­ни­цах из­да­ния всё, что ка­са­ет­ся ис­кус­ства шриф­та и осо­бен­но­стей его ис­поль­зо­ва­ния. Жур­нал пуб­ли­ку­ет ста­тьи и ин­тер­вью об ис­то­рии шриф­то­во­го ди­зай­на и его раз­ви­тии в на­ши дни, рас­ска­зы­ва­ет о но­вых шриф­то­вых про­ек­тах, а так­же ис­сле­ду­ет зна­чи­мые, с точ­ки зре­ния ти­по­гра­фи­ки, про­ек­ты про­шло­го и на­сто­я­ще­го.