Responsive, accessible, mobile-first, and progressively enhanced forms Web forms can be tricky business. Luckily there are some really smart guys out there keen to solve the challenges associated with doing web forms well. Making forms easy to fill out on touch device, making them easy to navigate for people using assistive devices, making them easy […]
Category Archives: Development
Given the pace at which things change in the realm of web, when is something a true best practice, merely a current or common convention, or are we all suffering from a “consensual hallucination” as Jeremy Keith says? What was a best practice yesterday may not be tomorrow, or even today for that matter. Are […]
A great post on how to “think” about web development. Everyone should read this if they plan for their site to be seen beyond the desktop display. Maybe even more so if don’t think about your site being seen beyond the desktop display.
There’s a myth: progressive enhancement means ‘designing for the lowest common denominator.’ No: it means STARTING there. Jeremy Keith
There is more than a little written about mobile first design. The problem is that most of what’s written is focused on designing for devices and not the people that use them. Here are 7 common mistakes, or misconceptions, I hear people making when approaching web design from a mobile first perspective. No. 7: Thinking […]
A couple years ago I had the good fortune to hear Jeremy Keith give a talk at An Event Apart. During his talk he spoke about three important factors that make up our work – Goals, Principles and Patterns. Unfortunately it seems that all too often many of us only tend to the Goals and […]
The primary design principle underlying the Web’s usefulness and growth is universality. When you make a link, you can link to anything. That means people must be able to put anything on the Web, no matter what computer they have, software they use or human language they speak and regardless of whether they have a wired or […]
What Bruce Lee can teach us about web design. “Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it […]
Over the last year or so much has changed in web design. Our big problem use to be backwards compatibility with IE6. But now we find ourselves in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. New smart-phones and tablets are popping up faster then the brain hungry undead in a George A. Romero movie. Luckily a […]