People come to GOV.UK with specific needs. Anything that gets between our users and meeting those needs should be stripped away. The design of GOV.UK reflects this, existing primarily as a way of providing the right content and services to our users. Find out here how we approach this challenge.

From April 2014, digital services from the government must meet the new Digital by Default Service Standard.

Flexbox - это новый способ располагать блоки на странице. Это технология, созданная именно для раскладки элементов, в отличие от float-ов. С помощью Flexbox можно легко выравнивать элементы по горизонтали и по вертикали, менять направление и порядок отображение элементов, растягивать блоки на всю высоту родителя или прибивать их к нижнему краю.

We know some devices won’t display icon fonts: but how many people are really affected? We decided to do some research to quantify things.

Animation can be a very effective mechanism to convey information in visualization and user interface settings. However, integrating animated presentations into user interfaces has typically been a difficult task since, to date, there has been little or no explicit support for animation in window systems or user interface toolkits. This paper describes how the Artkit user interface toolkit has been extended with new animation support abstractions designed to overcome this problem.

Web Fundamentals is a comprehensive resource for multi-device web development.

SVG files, especially exported from various editors, usually contains a lot of redundant and useless information such as editor metadata, comments, hidden elements, default or non-optimal values and other stuff that can be safely removed or converted without affecting SVG rendering result. SVGO to the help. + https://github.com/svg/svgo-gui

Webtype provides high-end fonts for online typography. We offer web designers the resources they need to bring professional branding and style to their websites.

The Los Angeles Times just redesigned their site with a focus on mobile and a goal of increasing reader engagement through pre-written tweets or “sharelines,” infinite scrolling, and a handful of other design specs. via Pocket

Once upon a time, I treated web accessibility as something of an extra. Sure, my images had alt attributes. Yes, my anchors contained titles. I honored 508 compliance, too, but it was usually the last thing I did. via Pocket

Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. We deliver big-picture science by reporting on a single monthly topic from multiple perspectives. Read a new chapter in the story every Thursday.

Digital news design is an awkward phase. Particularly on the Web, which feels transitory. While there is incredible momentum around responsive design and bright spots of bold storytelling, the foundations of most sites feel fragmented and chaotic. While many sites seem on the cusp of something big and revolutionary, most have not fully transitioned to feel “of the Web” in 2014. Many publications, particularly international sites, felt stale and stagnant. The innovation seen in South American and European sites in past years has almost vanished.

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published by the NZZ-Gruppe in Zurich.

Luke Wroblewski presents how-to tutorials for user experience

Für den Fall, dass alles schiefgeht und sich jeder Traum als Sackgasse erweist, hat Iouri Podladtchikov einen Plan im Hinterkopf: die Eröffnung eines Früchtestands. «Den ganzen…

High-end restaurants construct entrees out of what used to be considered weeds. Uni has replaced foie gras as the go-to luxury. And when you ask a local food-obsessive about her favorite restaurants, she is far more likely to mention a Thai noodle shop or a renegade taquero than she is anything with a Michelin star. Welcome to the Los Angeles restaurant scene, 2014.

The Polygon PlayStation 4 Review and Xbox One Review involved an unprecedented level of coordination between the editorial and product teams at Vox Media. The goal was to create a pair of extremely high touch features to highlight the talents of our writers and video team, while pushing the envelope on longform design.

There were a lot of lessons learned, but the final results speak for themselves.

After an Australian vessel, Ocean Shield, again detected deep-sea signals consistent with those from an airplane’s black box, the official leading a multination search expressed hope Wednesday that crews will begin to find wreckage of a missing Malaysian airliner “within a matter of days.”“I believe we’re searching in the right area,” Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said.

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