April, 2011

Links for April 29th

Subtraction.com: My Column on Columns

"I take a different position, though. I think that the desire to approach screen-based layout with columnized text is misguided. Multiple columns are an effective layout technique in print because they improve legibility for long blocks of text. But for digital media, it’s my feeling that they make it harder to read text."

tags:

layout

typography

design

Links for April 26th

Information Architects – A Web Designer on Fukushima

A web designer reflects on Fukushima and nuclear energy, among other things. "Is more technology really the right solution? Don’t we have enough technology? What is it that we are really lacking?"

tags:

culture

technology

design

Links for April 21st

9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes

I keep returning to this article, as it is the best concise, data-driven explanation of why supply-side economics (read: Reaganomics) doesn't work, and also of the myths surrounding it.

tags:

economics

politics

Links for April 19th

A List Apart: Articles: Orbital Content

"If we get a good jump on it, we can create a web in which content creators are rewarded fairly, content consumers are given unprecedented power, and web applications are pushed to constantly innovate and improve themselves. Not too shabby."

tags:

content-strategy

What user experience design says to ecclesiology

April 18th, 2011

One of the things I love most about theology is ecclesiology, the study of the church and how it lives with God in the world.

Links for April 5th

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad manimation | Stuff and Nonsense

Fantastic example of CSS animation, while still built on top of semantic, meaningful markup. View it in Firefox, and then view it in Safari or Chrome to see the animation (for now, these are the only ones that support it).

tags:

animation

css3

css

design

Links for April 4th

The fall and rise of user experience : Cennydd Bowles on user experience

"We’re not here to reduce risk. We’re not here to massage conversion rates. We’re here to make things that improve people’s lives. In doing so, our companies profit in both senses of the word. It’s insufficient to judge our industry by the ROI we generate, or our contribution toward GDP. We should judge our industry by the happiness we create."

tags:

user-experience

design