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Even in the ancient times people knew about the great power of motion. Literature, art, folklore, technologies all witness numerous attempts of people to explain motion as one of the brightest features of life. via Pocket
X’s are everywhere in user interface (UI) design. A powerful symbol, [x] is capable of closing windows and popups, toolbars and tabs and anything else that might otherwise be cluttering up your screen. via Pocket
В то время Мадьяр был погружен в долговременный проект на стыке технологий и искусства под названием Stainless («Безупречные»), создавая изображения высокого разрешения из проезжающих поездов и пассажиров, используя сложное, написанное им самим программное обеспечение и доработанную промышленную фотокамеру. Техника сканирования, которую он разработал — объединение тысяч кадров шириной в пиксель в одно изображение — позволяет ему заставать пассажиров врасплох, пока они с шумом и лязгом летят сквозь темные тоннели метро, фиксируя их в призрачных изображениях, наполненных деталями, которые не может запечатлеть ни одна обычная камера.
Listening to your web content rather than looking at it can be an "eye-opening" experience (pardon the pun) that takes sighted users out of their normal comfort zone. It gives sighted users a chance to evaluate their content from an entirely different perspective: from the perspective of a blind person. A lot of times you'll end up finding mistakes that would have been hard to catch visually. For example, spelling mistakes become very obvious when you hear words mispronounced by the screen reader. Screen readers are also very good for checking the accuracy and quality of image alternative text. Screen readers can also help you identify problems with reading order, table markup, form elements, and many other aspects of accessibility.
To get the most out of a TextExpander, you need to remember your abbreviations. That means obeying principles of memory and cognition. To dramatically ease the burden of creating and learning abbreviations, develop conventions for them. Patterns reduce the mathematical “complexity” of learning, and they exploit your brain’s natural, impressive ability to process patterns.
Information architecture is fundamentally about organizing information and providing structure in a way that makes sense.
Different site structure types ("IA models")
Сегодня, 13 ноября, Международный день слепых. via Pocket
Уже некоторое время дизайнеры пользуются новой программой для векторной графики и иллюстраций — Affinity Designer. Это подробный обзор для любителей попробовать новое в работе.
Chrome has taught us to idealize features for so long that we've become blind to its many glaring faults.
Setting up a local environment for WordPress is a common need for developers. Since everything runs on your computer, loading times are significantly lower and you can safely test things before you try them out in a live production environment.
Local WordPress installations aren’t just for coders, though. As a user, local environments let you try out themes and plugins much more quickly, create as many installations as you need, and play around with WordPress without fear of wreaking havoc on your live website.
Many people use XAMPP or MAMP instead of the somewhat newer Vagrant. These are great choices but Vagrant is a lot more flexible and just as easy.
In this guide I’ll give you easy to follow, instructions on how to set up Vagrant you can copy and paste. We’ll go from zero to a fully functioning WordPress installation, so let’s dig in!
Однозначного и исчерпывающего ответа на вопрос поверхностный поиск не дал, справочники академического характера чаще всего выдают результаты для изданий (в т.ч. с вариантами использования римских цифр, что не очень подходит для интерфейсов), поэтому хочется понять, как лучше указывать именно диапазоны именно дат и именно в интерфейсах и попробовать сформулировать правило или выявить закономерности. Для этого я вспомнил все, какие мог, кейсы, и упорядочил их в таблице — кейс, числовой пример, формат полный и сокращенный, для дней, недель, месяцев, кварталов, полугодий и лет (внутри поста).
Перед началом тирады я хотел бы обратить внимание на то, что прекрасные сайты бывают любых форм и размеров. И я здесь не собираюсь кого-то стыдить за количество использованных бит, объём использованных ресурсов и так далее. Я люблю большие сочные галереи изображений, мне нравятся огромные эксперименты на JavaScript, я смотрю онлайн-видео в высоком разрешении, как и все вы. Я считаю, что подобное замечательно.
Whether you’re using them on pricing pages, product pages, landing pages, or your blog, well-designed CTA buttons are going to help you get more people to do what you want them to do.
How changing one word in the call-to-action reduced conversions on a payment page by 26.55%
In this guide, you will learn about Calls-to-Action (CTAs) and how you can use them to optimize your website, blog, and email.
When users look for information, they have a goal and are on a mission. Even before you started to read this article, chances are you did because you either had the implicit goal of checking what’s new on Smashing Magazine, or had the explicit goal of finding information about “Navigation Design”.
One big new method for making your website fast is called
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), a project spearheaded by Google. Mobile data is unlike our home WiFi connections. It’s slow. AMP aims to help fix that, in a rigidly prescribed way, by ridding sites of their most inefficient parts.
AMP has very rigid rules for the source in order to get the big speed gains it’s going for.
A pure CSS Masonry with flexbox+CSS columns (demo here https://jsbin.com/loronibali/2/edit?css,output).
In this tutorial I'll show you three methods you can use to override functions from the parent theme in your child theme:
pluggable functions
function priority
removing functions from the hook they're attached to
Luckily, the bash shell has some fairly well-developed history functions. Learning how to affectively use and manipulate your bash history will allow you to spend less time typing and more time getting actual work done. Many developers are familiar with the DRY philosophy of Don't Repeat Yourself. Effective use of bash's history allows you to operate closer to this principle and will speed up your work flow.