jQuery Mobile Select: jQuery Mobile Navigation Replacement Plugin

A often-used practice in Responsive Web Design is to replace the menu/navigation (<ul>) with a dropdown (<select>) on small devices, this to prevent it from taking up the whole screen. Today, my friend Jochen released a jQuery plugin that does the job for you automagically: jQuery Mobile Select is a jQuery Plugin to replace the …

Responsive web design from the future

Responsive web design is about a lot more than the size of your screen. This talk is about about how GitHub handles links, the url bar, partial page updates, and explains why I think the HTML5 history API is the most important thing to happen to front end development since Firebug. Responsive web design from …

Slides from Responsive & Responsible

The Boston Globe is one of the first major sites to implement responsive design at a large scale, and this presentation covered many of the challenges and solutions we encountered during that development process. Very, very, very interesting stuff! Slides from Responsive & Responsible, Scott Jehl, Breaking Dev 2011 →More on The Boston Globe Redesign …

Responsive Web Design

When Ethan Marcotte coined the term “responsive web design” he conjured up something special. The technologies existed already: fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries. But Ethan united these techniques under a single banner, and in so doing changed the way we think about web design. From the foreword of Responsive Web Design, a highly …

BostonGlobe.com Redesigned

Early this morning, the team at the Boston Globe flipped the switch on an incredibly ambitious new web site, and the 139-year-old Award-winning American newspaper gained a proper home of its own on the web. The website brings journalism and reporting to the web in a way that is accessible and a pleasure to use …

The answer to life, the universe, web development and usability

From Jeremy Keith’s Blogpost Caveat: If you’re looking for the more honest, truthful answer to pretty much any question on web design and usability, here it is: It depends. Exactly what me and my colleagues tell our students: the solutions we give them are a solution, not the solution.