July, 2011

Links for July 27th

Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies – Smashing Magazine

"We’ve compiled this round-up of resources for creating responsive website designs. Included are tutorials, techniques, articles, tools and more, all geared toward giving you the specific knowledge you need to create your own responsive designs."

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responsive-design

css

design

Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development

"Skeleton is a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone. Skeleton is built on three core principles: responsive grid, fast to start, style agnostic."

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responsive-design

javascript

css

programming

design

Norway's day of fire and the challenge of Christian formation | P.OST

"What we should learn both from the New Testament and—illustratively, at least—from Norway’s experience is that discipleship needs to be driven by a sense of corporate identity and purpose shaped by a prophetic awareness of historical context. What is our coming day of fire? What crises lie on our horizon? What threatens our existence? What sort of communities do we need to be in order to survive with integrity?"

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new-testament

spirituality

Links for July 26th

Avoiding common HTML5 mistakes | HTML5 Doctor

As we start using HTML5 in production projects, it's really important to catch these mistakes before they become habits.

tags:

design

html

html5

A List Apart: Articles: The UX of Learning

"Learning is a complex process with distinct stages, each with corresponding tasks and emotions. Understanding how users learn can help us design experiences that support the user throughout the entire process."

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user-experience

design

a-list-apart

Links for July 14th

God Takes Sides….or When Karl Barth Was Right

"God takes the side of the oppressed, marginalized, impoverished and excluded. God is for them.  God is also against the oppressors, violators, full and power wielders."

tags:

bible

theology

Sarcastic Lutheran: Sermon on Isaiah 55, The Parable of the Sower and those big talking trees form Lord of the Rings

"I want the day to come when Christians are described not as judgmental but as those who rejoice in the world and delight in humanity. And what is a call to joy but a call home? A call home to the garden of this God whose desire to be known is so much more powerful than our desire to replace God with only the knowledge of good and evil."

tags:

spirituality

church

Links for July 13th

Winning a User Experience Debate

"Cennydd Bowles outlines his advice for winning a UX debate and explains what to do when you disagree with the feedback you receive on your design."

tags:

user-experience

design

Links for July 12th

Experimental Theology: Finding Joy: On Golf and the Sermon on the Mount

"So we are walking a fine line here. On the one hand, you don't want to say that the Sermon is unattainable because clearly it is attainable. We really should try to attain to the ideals set out in the Sermon. And, with the help of God, we actually can attain these things. But on the other hand, the Sermon is so imposing we know we are surely going to fail. A lot. So how are we to thread the needle?"

tags:

bible

new-testament

jesus

In Defense of the Evidence – Adaptive Path

"Maybe we shouldn't be borrowing from visual arts—photography, graphic design, illustration—by calling the artifacts of our work a “portfolio.” Possibly we need to frame them with more context and have case studies be our calling card. Or, simply, supporting artifacts, or evidence. Indeed, we shouldn't limit these “portfolios” to neat and tidy wireframes, interfaces, and flows. They should include images of sticky note-filled walls and whiteboards, sketches, and research protocols. I know that I would never hire someone who didn't have some visual supporting evidence of his or her work."

tags:

user-experience

design

Reports: Obama pushing for cuts to Social Security, Medicare – Readability

"When I first began writing about politics in late 2005, the standard liberal blogosphere critique — one I naively believed back then — was that Democrats were capitulating so continuously to the Bush agenda because they 'lacked spine' and were inept political strategists: i.e., they found those policies so very offensive but were simply unwilling or unable to resist them. It became apparent to me that this was little more than a self-soothing conceit: Democrats continuously voted for Bush policies because they were either indifferent to their enactment or actively supported them, and were owned and controlled by the same factions as the GOP."

tags:

economics

obama

politics

Links for July 10th

Designing for Content: Creating a Message Hierarchy – Web Standards Sherpa

"Designers who replace Lorem Ipsum in their comps or wireframes are underscoring the importance of quality content. But why not start sooner, before a single line is drawn?"

tags:

content-strategy

design

The web is spilling out into the real world

July 9th, 2011

Recently, the fine folks at Homebrewed Christianity started asking guests, and also listeners, to talk about the biggest challenge facing American religion.

Links for July 4th

Reclaiming the Mission » STOP FUNDING CHURCH PLANTS and Start Funding Missionaries: A Plea to Denominations

This speaks to my heart. "This is an idea whose time has come. It is easy, simple, saves money, and I think it seeds the mission of God in N America for generations to come: STOP FUNDING TRADITIONAL CHURCH PLANTS and instead fund missionaries to inhabit contexts all across the new mission fields of N America."

tags:

emerging

mission

church

Google Plus, and design as problem solving

July 2nd, 2011

As you may know, Google has opened up limited access to its new social network, Google Plus.

Links for July 2nd

Cash registers: window into the retail experience – Adaptive Path

"It's funny how Apple's moves are really just taking us full circle. For our research, we also wandered the farmers' market at the Ferry Building (which happens to be next to our office). And the kind of transactions you see in that environment—chatting about the products available, handing over cash, counting out change, walking away with your item—are how we have conducted commerce for hundreds of years, and the simply human-ness of this exchange is far more appealing than the computerized beeps and back black panels and 'Waiting for authorization…' that we have becomed used to."

tags:

adaptive-path

user-experience

business

design