Great set of slides from my friend Bytte talking about the characteristics of a well-designed UI:
Category Archives: Elsewhere
Quantity Queries for CSS
Styling elements based on the “more than one” and “fewer than two” thresholds is a neat trick, but a flexible “quantity query” interface would accept any quantity. That is, I should be able to style “more than or equal to n” for any value of n. Then I can style “more than or equal to …
The Web’s Grain
Great piece by Frank Chimero. Starts with that nostalgic nineties feel and finds it way to photography, responsive design, and the fact that some websites try to blow you away with their design/technological advancements. “Listen bub,” I say, “it is very impressive that you can teach a bear to ride a bicycle, and it is …
Seascape
Launchkit Review Monitor
GLMap Framework
GLMap is a lightweight offline map component with a simple mechanism of integrating into any iOS or Android application. With the GLMap framework, map data is prepared on CPU and is rendered directly on GPU using OpenGL ES 2.0. This allows each processor to do the job it does best. By splitting up data processing, …
Riding Light
Responsible Social Share Links
Social share scripts are convenient and easy to copy & paste but rely on JavaScript and add additional overhead to your site, which means more HTTP requests and slower load times. Instead, use share links that don’t require you to load scripts for each social site. Back to the basics: URLs and plain HTML (with …
HTTPie – Command line HTTP client
HTTPie (pronounced aych-tee-tee-pie) is a command line HTTP client. Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. It provides a simple http command that allows for sending arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax, and displays colorized output. HTTPie can be used for testing, debugging, and generally …
The impact of checking your phone before going to bed
Staring at screens right before sleep turns out to be a lot worse than previously thought. Dr. Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, lays out all of the negative effects bedtime screen viewing can have on the brain and body. Can’t see the video? Check the original here.