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First of all, welcome to the new and updated install guide for the Intel Haswell NUC!
The grid isn't primarily a visual design tool, it's a user-experience aid - like lanes on a street. via Pocket
Last week we announced that The New York Times Company and European publishing powerhouse Axel Springer are investing 3 million euro to help us launch Blendle in other countries. via Pocket
Сегодня нам хотелось бы затронуть такую тему как создание сайта для проведения онлайн-курсов. Онлайн-обучение становится все более и более востребованным – посмотрите хотя бы какой популярностью пользуются курсы, предлагаемые Нетологией! Мы вовсе не планируем открывать Америку, просто хотим поделиться интересной статьей про один из инструментов, которым только начинаем пользоваться в своей ежедневной деятельности компании, готовящей к сдаче тестов на английском языке.
Almost universally, professional web interface designers (engineers, whatever) have accustomed themselves to styling HTML elementsprescriptively. We conceive of an interface object, then author styles for the object that are inscribed manually in the markup as “hooks.”
The Google Fonts service has been immensely popular with web designers ever since it first launched in May of 2010. And for good reason. There are no accounts to sign up for and no monthly fees like there are with other web font services. Just add a single line of code to your website and you have at your disposal a huge selection of free fonts that display beautifully on screen.
But all of this begs the question: why is Google in the fonts game? What do they have to gain by hosting fonts for millions of websites for free? Is Google in this for the long haul or will Google Fonts eventually end up in the dreaded Google Graveyard?
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Take any new interface design or display technology, and chances are that someone somewhere has already compared it to Minority Report. The 2002 dystopian film, with its see-through screens and…
Star typeface designer Tobias Frere-Jones explains the challenges of using Helvetica Neue as an operating system font.
A content strategy must achieve a harmonic balance between business goals, editorial mission, user expectations, design vision, the content production process, and technological capabilities.
Typefaces are an expression of their time. FF Mark is a new typeface and yet it clearly draws on historical examples from the past. Precisely, the mid-1920s, a period in German history with exceptional innovation in engineering, in the arts and in design. In particular, the years between 1925 and 1930 produced several ideas that were new to the world – among them a new concept in type design: the geometric sans serif.
In this article we discuss the importance of navigation design patterns using examples from some of the hottest websites and web apps.
В этот день двадцать лет назад нынешний CTO Opera Хоком Виум Ли опубликовал предложение по каскадным таблицам стилей для HTML.
The printing press was the great innovation in early modern information technology, but economists have found no macroeconomic evidence of its impact. This paper exploits city-level data. Between 1500 and 1600, European cities where printing presses were established in the 1400s grew 60 percent faster than otherwise similar cities. Cities that adopted printing in the 1400s had no prior advantage and the association between adoption and subsequent growth was not due to printers choosing auspicious locations. These findings are supported by regressions that exploit distance from Mainz, Germany – the birth place of printing – as an instrument for adoption.
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
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.
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.
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.
What kind of content should you have on your site? How should you structure the menu? What should be the first-level menu items? One or two menus? What should the menu links be called? This post will give you the answers. via Pocket