“[W]hile the rest of the world’s smart phone adoption began with the iPhone,
Japan was years ahead — but alone. The result was that Japan’s smart phone
culture evolved separately from the rest of the world. There was less emphasis
on large pictures and text was more acceptable since it had been the norm since
the early days.”
posted 12/2/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[T]he developers are testing it on Annie, Zach Adams' wife. After a failed
attempt with an earlier version, the latest tutorial took Annie far enough to
where she could ‘tunnel under a bog and drown her fortress.’ Presumably, that
is good.”
posted 10/30/2022 8:00pm ∞
“In this case, the outcome of the Wired.com redesign
reduced the front-end markup size by over half (from
48KB down to 23KB )
dropped from 24 nested tables that controlled layout down to only 1 table that
appropriately rendered financial market data
dramatically improved accessibility of the site for users of assistive
technology.”
Douglas Bowman ,
Wired.com: 20 years later
(October 11, 2022 ,
via Manton Reese )
posted 10/27/2022 8:00pm ∞
“A website is for a visitor, using a browser, running on a computer to read,
watch, listen, or perhaps to interact. A website that embraces Brutalist Web
Design is raw in its focus on content , and prioritization of the website
visitor.”
This is how I have designed pile.org ,
though I hadn’t rigorously thought through my philosophy, and it springs as much
from my inability and unwillingness to engage with fancier design as from a
focus on readers' needs.
posted 9/26/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Many sections have their own red Enter keys, and you realize that this
keyboard is so big it enters the realm of information architecture — the
various islands of keys are nothing more than a graphical user interface, small
dialog boxes realized in an unusual medium.”
Marcin Wichary ,
The modifiers vs. the keepers
(June 20, 2022 )
posted 9/24/2022 8:00pm ∞