Brad Frost

valleymice: Mobile First wins every time.

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:34:27 -0500

valleymice:

Mobile First wins every time.

Separate Mobile Website Vs. Responsive Website

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:18:12 -0400

Separate Mobile Website Vs. Responsive Website:

Mitt Romney has a separate mobile site. Barack Obama has a responsive site. I go through the

This Blogspot theme isn’t holding up too well on mobile....

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:35:54 -0400

This Blogspot theme isn’t holding up too well on mobile. Giant fixed header doesn’t leave much room for reading.

Design Process in the Responsive Age

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:48:46 -0400

Design Process in the Responsive Age:

Pon Kattera (@pkattera, who is one of the curators of this site) details the responsive web design process

destroy/dstorey: Sizing Boxes (Back to the Future)

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:21:59 -0400

destroy/dstorey: Sizing Boxes (Back to the Future):

dstorey:

The way we are building web sites is fundamentally changing. The XHTML (Strict if we took pride in our work) has given way to the more loose HTML5. Image slicing and dicing, and wrapper divs are starting to be replaced with lean (perhaps semantic if we’re lucky) HTML and CSS3 effects such as ...

Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:41:01 -0400

Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes:

IE’s blog talking about how to use media queries to reflow content for different sized screens. Unfortunately, they’re using device-specific dimensions in their examples. Remember, there are lots of devices with lots of different dimensions.

Life Beyond 960px: Designing for Large Screens

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:01:40 -0400

Life Beyond 960px: Designing for Large Screens:

Good reminder that responsive design isn’t just about ensuring sites look great on small screens, but large ones as well. There are plenty of opportunities to capitalize on the extra space.

mikegallay: B is for … Bilbo Full size:...

Tue, 29 May 2012 12:43:14 -0400

mikegallay:

B is for … Bilbo

Full size: http://www.mgallay.com/alphabooks/B.jpg

mikegallay: A is for … Aslan from C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles...

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:59:44 -0400

mikegallay:

A is for … Aslan from C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia #alphabooks

Jason Shah: Airbnb UX Wins and Losses | How The Airbnb Home Page Lures Us In

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:58:21 -0400

Jason Shah: Airbnb UX Wins and Losses | How The Airbnb Home Page Lures Us In:

jasonshah:

There must be something to learn from the Airbnb user experience.

Airbnb, like many startups following in its path of collaborative consumption or others simply trying to power offline action, have the challenge of earning user trust. While PR, word of mouth, and direct outreach can alleviate…

On Personal Branding

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:33:33 -0400

On Personal Branding:

lindseykirkbride:

Great tips from Brad Frost on cultivating a personal brand online. His steps are pretty straight forward:

Be sincere

Establish a style and tone

Be consistent

Have a hub

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:28:39 -0400

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY':

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…

Testing For Dummies: Testing

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:28:09 -0400

Testing For Dummies: Testing :

mobiletestingfordummies:

We thought we’d share some information on our testing process.

My name is David Blooman, I am the principal tester for responsive news, all questions and queries can be sent to me at david.blooman@bbc.co.uk. Twitter @davey_blooman

When testing the devices, there are 4 main areas to…

minifrost: Doggling is creepy, I know. I love bulldogs. I love...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:10:34 -0400

minifrost:

Doggling is creepy, I know. I love bulldogs. I love dogs in general. Sometimes I go to the dog park and watch them. Now, I’ve just drawn myself with a dog to deal with the fact that I just can’t have one. le sigh.

9-Bits by David Kaneda: Scrutiny, Cynicism, and Slacktivism

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:44:34 -0500

9-Bits by David Kaneda: Scrutiny, Cynicism, and Slacktivism:

9-bits:

By now, most of you have probably seen the Kony 2012 campaign. It’s a well-produced campaign video from Invisible Children — a group with the goal of stopping international human rights violator Joseph Kony and the subsequent violence he has brought to Uganda and its neighboring countries. It…

Cutting the mustard

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:31:31 -0500

responsivenews:

The browser is a hostile development environment and supporting a wide range of desktop browsers can be tough work.

One of the immediate challenges we discovered when we first started the responsive news prototype was the large range of devices that we would have to support. It terrified us. This article is about a solution we use to alleviate this problem.

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pxldot: iOS Ebb and Flow

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:45:00 -0500

pxldot: iOS Ebb and Flow:

pxldot:

I’d like to fill in the picture I began in my recent post on Android fragmentation by examining the changes in version distribution of the other major mobile operating system: iOS.

Unfortunately, this was no quite as easy as it was for Android. Unlike Google, Apple does not publish the version…

iPad3's Retina Display Will Wreak Havok for the Web

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:16:52 -0500

The iPad3’s Retina display is causing problems for apps who have to deal with Apple’s 20MB limit on app size. You know the web is in trouble when even the native apps are struggling with the gigantic Retina screen.

The difference of course between a native app and a website is that the bulk of the file size for native apps can be handled in one fell swoop upon download, while assets are requested on demand for the web.

This is going to be serious troubling for the web, who’s already dealing with increasingly-bloated page sizes. Users are going to get used to seeing beautiful crisp experiences on native apps, then turn to the web and get pixelated disgustingness. It happened before with the launch of the iPhone4, but because of the screen size the problem is compounded dramatically.

Of course not every iPad is on 3G service, but not all are blazingly-fast Wi-fi either. We need to be able to deliver great web experience that cater to context, and that means serving a good experience to a user on shitty Wi-fi on a Bolt Bus and also to the user comfortably browsing the web from their home.

The The user on the bus can be on slow Wi-fi or 3G and might just need to get the damn assets downloaded. They shouldn’t be punished with downloading a massive Retina-ready image. That’s where navigator.connection comes into play, but even the basic connection types don’t give the whole picture of the user’s context.

Just because the iPad3 CAN serve up high quality, crisp images and video doesn’t mean it SHOULD for every use case. This is important. We need a way to properly address this.

My wife is an animal. I watched her do this from scratch, which...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:55:15 -0500

My wife is an animal. I watched her do this from scratch, which kind of blew my mind.

minifrost:

A little late but, Happy Chinese New Year! 2012 Year of the Dragon. This took me awhile, but I’m really happy with how it turned out. Let me know your thoughts!

minifrost: New illustration! This ones for the bumbly people in...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:27:20 -0500

minifrost:

New illustration! This ones for the bumbly people in cold places…