April, 2010

Links for April 14th

Quick and Easy CSS @font-face Code • Perishable Press

"This technique delivers your custom fonts quite consistently to all of these browsers, and degrades gracefully for those that don’t support it."

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design

typography

css

The TED Commandments – rules every speaker needs to know

If you do any public speaking at all, you should know these rules, and probably should follow them as much as possible.

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public-speaking

iA » Designing for iPad: Reality Check

Great design insights from the creation if iPad apps – applicable to anything we design for the iPad, as well as web/mobile design in general.

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information-architecture

usability

user-experience

typography

design

My public support for Jennifer Knapp, and some thoughts on sin

April 14th, 2010

If you follow such developments, you may have seen the Christianity Today interview with Jennifer Knapp in which she discussed her return to music, her faith, and her homosexuality.

Links for April 13th

The figure & figcaption elements | HTML5 Doctor

Examining the figure element in HTML5, which gives us a really valuable convention for those side images with captions.

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design

html

html5

Tall Skinny Kiwi: A white guy and a black guy in the emerging church

Andrew Jones tells a beautiful story of the emerging church. I love this stuff. I had typed a bunch of thoughts about it, but it should speak for itself.

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church

emerging

andrew-jones

cheaper than therapy: Amen to the Critiques of the Whiteness of the Emerging Church

I'm not all that involved in the recent discussions of whether the emerging church is too white (both because it isn't, unless you mean Emergent Village, and because I want to listen more than I talk, being a white guy), though I have watched the conversations and found many viewpoints that I agree with and many that I really disagree with. This is a great one. "If it does not have a cross section which looks exactly like an approximation of the make-up of the world or at least America, it is too something. ALWAYS."

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race

emerging

emergent

Links for April 12th

Love146.org

" Love146 works toward the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation through Prevention and Aftercare solutions, and contributing to a growing abolition movement."

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human-rights

activism

abolition

Source, Fallout, and Minneapolis

April 10th, 2010

We recently spent a week in Minneapolis with Source and the Fallout Arts Initiative, in the most diverse neighborhood in the United States.

Links for April 10th

adaptive path » blog » Kim Cullen » Coloring Outside the Wireframe: 3 Tips to Integrating Visual Design in the UX Field

Tips on how to include visual design, and visual designers, in user experience processes, companies, and workflows. This is a necessary conversation, and I'm happy to see it.

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adaptive-path

user-experience

design

Links for April 9th

The Palestinian Question: Thoughts on Being Labeled an Anti-Semite – Waving or Drowning?

Naturally, Mike Todd has been labeled as an Anti-Semite, as Americans usually are when they criticize Israel. Here, he reflects in detail about what that means and the conversation that needs to be held.

tags:

peace

palestine

israel

Links for April 8th

Peace Is Loud

"Peace is Loud supports female voices focused on peace-building by helping organizations and individuals mobilize their communities to end and transform conflicts through non-violent means."

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peace-activism

peace

human-rights

activism

CSS Naked Day 2010

April 8th, 2010

Today marks the second time (because it took me so long to design my website after I turned it into a blog) that I've celebrated CSS Naked Day, which is a time for designers to remove styles from their websites, showing the underlying semantic HTML in all its glory. The point of this has always been to show the point of and promote such semantic HTML and web standards by showing how they serve to organize a site's content before it is visually organized.

Links for April 7th

Horrible Advice: Never listen to your customers – DIY Marketing Blog

It's easy to think we shouldn't listen to our customers because they don't know, if we ask them, exactly what they want from what we are designing. But that's not the point of talking to customers, doing usability studies, etc. – the point is to learn from them, investigate from there, and be designers!

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user-experience

design

Christianity is Empire, part 1 | the Jesus Manifesto

This series is examining the factors of traditional Christianity that lead it to promote Empire, and show how these factors came about and have been used, and how we can move forward. I think this is an incredibly important series, as we can't ignore these things.

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theology

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