Future Friendly is a manifesto / call to arms for making sure that our strategies for technology, design, and content will work fine on today’s and on the next-gen devices. While we can’t know exactly what the future will bring, we can: Acknowledge and embrace unpredictability. Think and behave in a future-friendly way. Help others …
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Conference Nonsense
Job Application
Carsonified is looking for a designer. What caught my eye are the instructions on how to apply: Design and code a 1-page ‘dashboard’ app for your life. Pretend it’s an app that you view/edit these stats: Heart rate Drinks consumed Food eaten Hours slept Highfives received Please create a logo and name for the app. …
CSS3 Image Styles
CSS3 Image Styles holds a set of CSS3 style rules to set some nice effects on images: Circle, Card, Embossed, Cutout, Morphing, Glowing, etc. The tad of Javascript used to dynamically enhance all the images automagically looks awfully a lot like a piece I knocked up a while ago 😉 CSS3 Image Styles →
Analog
Analog makes it easy to apply stunning filters and borders to your photos. There’s tonnes of stylish filters included, and easy sharing to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa and CloudApp. Basically: Instagram for Mac.Analog → Speaking of Instagram: The filters in Instagram 2.0 differ quite a lot from the ones in version 1.0 🙁
Social Button BFFs
Loading JavaScript asynchronously is critical for the performance of your web app. Below is an idea how to do it for the most common social buttons out there so you can make sure these don’t interfere with the loading of the rest of your content. After all people need to see your content first, then …
SMACSS
TransformJS
Transforming elements via Javascript in all browsers at once can be a real pain in the ass (think vendor prefixes). Enter TranformJS: 2D and 3D transforms as regular CSS properties you can set using .css() and animate using .animate() In code that basically means you can now use this: $(‘#test’).animate({ translateY:’+=150′, scale:’+=2′, rotateY: ‘+=’+(2*Math.PI), rotateX: …
Playstation Video Unlimited
This is the new PlayStation Video Unlimited service. This PlayStation app runs at a full 60 frames per second (when you see it on a PS3), has tons of 3D graphics effects, full-speed 1080p video playback, and a fluid, hardware accelerated, animated user experience. What you may not know is that this is a web …