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  1. The user experience ‘slide’

    A process or task that a user needs to complete is like a slide. At the start of the task the user is at the top, and their goal is to get to the bottom of the slide. As designers our job is to enable the user to complete the task as smoothly and easily as possible. Every time a...

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  2. Really responsive web design

    Responsive Web design: Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience — easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling — across a wide range of devices Wikipedia As the Wikipedia quote above implies, the phrase...

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  3. User testing & the uncertainty principle

    This post came about after I wrote about a suspicion I had when prototyping and testing some form inputs. Specifically, that asking for a user's date of birth with a set of 3 drop down lists, or <select> inputs, may encourage users to select random entries rather than scroll through long lists to find the correct date....

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  4. Knowing the questions

    It's never been a more exciting time to be working in web design and development. Web standards support is a dream compared to where we were just 3 years ago, mobile and ‘always–on’ connectivity is almost ubiquitous and the tools — the software and libraries and frameworks that help us build exciting products — are numerous and very...

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  5. New site

    This site is brand new. There may well be quirks, inconsistencies or downright bugs — please contact me if you notice anything askew. Browsers So far it's only been tested in latest IE, Firefox and Chrome on the desktop. I will run things through a full device lab when I get the chance....

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  6. The humble SASS $variable

    SASS is an extremely powerful and flexible language that enables us to work quicker and smarter to generate CSS. For me, one of it's most useful features is one that almost seems to be taken for granted, the simple $variable. With a little consideration about how we define variables, we can ensure a subtle...

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  7. Paring back design

    It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupéry One issue I have personally faced when designing sites or interfaces is an inclination to hone (or literally Photoshop Zoom) in on a small component and...

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