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Links for May 18th

The article element | HTML5 Doctor
When and why to use the HTML5 article element, and how it differs from other similar ones.
tags:
html5
html
web-standards

Links for May 12th

Storyville Coffee Company
Mail order coffee roaster and seller that sends highly recommended, secret formula-roasted coffee to subscribers. The profit goes to International Justice Mission, seeking to rid the world of slavery. Described as "a new model of funding for non-profits (true partnerships with for-profits)."
tags:
abolition
stores
fair-trade
coffee
activism

Links for May 11th

Control – 52 Weeks of UX
This piece examines the issue of control when designing user experiences, from the perspective of both the user and the designer in how control relates to simplicity, accomplishing tasks, and so on.
tags:
user-experience
design
Money, Power, and The Price of Sugar | onehandclapping
This is a brief look at what sugar costs people in the Dominican Republic, but is more a look at how such things are swept under the rug and what we can try to do about it.
tags:
julie-clawson
latin-america
fair-trade
activism
Publishing Apostles | the Jesus Manifesto
Mark examines what we are doing when we in the church give authority to the publishing industry to talk to us about ecclesiology, and asks how we can discern a way forward.
tags:
ecclesiology
church
mark-van-steenwyk
Findability and Exploration: the future of search
Challenging thoughts on a number of different topics related to helping users figure out, and find, what they are looking for.
tags:
search
information-architecture

Links for May 5th

Power and the Emerging Church | onehandclapping
Julie Clawson looks at issue of power and authority and how they relate to leadership structures in the emerging church, and specifically to the race questions that have been going around.
tags:
race
emergent
emerging-church
julie-clawson

Links for April 29th

Getting the Elephant Out of the Sanctuary | Conversations Journal
This is among the best conversations I've ever read concerning the doctrine of the atonement – our theories and where they both succeed and fall short, and how each one ultimately fails what it's trying to do.
tags:
dallas-willard
theology
atonement
adaptive path » blog » Leah Buley » Things to do at the beginning of each project
Really nice list of things to do at the beginning of a project, recognizing that they'll help in the middle and the end.
tags:
design

Links for April 24th

Chrome joins the WOFF party for Web fonts | Deep Tech – CNET News
"WOFF lets browsers download typefaces associated with Web pages, letting Web designers customize their sites' appearances."
tags:
browsers
design
typography

Links for April 22nd

Tools for Sketching User Experiences | UX Booth
This is a fantastic example of a real workflow for sketching user experiences. I'm better at sketching than I used to be, but I'm still not as good as I'd like, and this is a necessary place of growth for me.
tags:
sketching
user-experience
tools
design
adaptive path » sketchboards: discover better + faster ux solutions
"The sketchboard is a low-fi technique that makes it possible for designers to explore and evaluate a range of interaction concepts while involving both business and technology partners. Unlike the process that results from wireframe-based design, the sketchboard quickly performs iterations on many possible solutions and then singles out the best user experience to document and build upon."
tags:
adaptive-path
user-experience
tools
sketching
design
Christianity is Empire, part 3 (Christian supremacy) | the Jesus Manifesto
Mark continues the series on the connections between Christianity and Empire. This one considers the notion of the supremacy of Christianity, and the short leaps that are made from that to supremacy of nations, races, and so on. Mark suggests that we are faithful instead by servanthood, humility, and inferiority. The series will continue from here, and I'm really anticipating where he'll go.
tags:
politics
culture
theology
mark-van-steenwyk

Links for April 21st

SproutCore – Home
"SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins." I'm personally not sure about this (though I'm interested), as it depends on JavaScript much more than it does HTML – possibly making it much harder for designers to use it.
tags:
javascript
ruby
programming
design
html
html5
Embracing the digital book — Craig Mod
These are necessary thoughts on what is missing from digital books. This includes powerful design principles from traditional book design, which should not have been forgotten because they are good design; it also includes powerful new things that e-readers make possible and need to be incorporated into modern book design. This, then, is powerful for digital book design and also insightful for design in general.
tags:
books
user-experience
typography
design

Links for April 20th

John Nack on Adobe: Video: Selecting hair with Refine Edge in CS5
"Adobe evangelist Terry White has created an excellent 5-minute demo that shows off how easily the rewritten Refine Edge command in Photoshop CS5 can select tricky subject like blowing hair."
tags:
video
design
photoshop

Links for April 19th

Design for Delight – 52 Weeks of UX
"Delight. Surprise. Joy."
tags:
user-experience
design

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