Principles of UI design
A list of important principles of user interface design.
Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It
UPDATE (April 2014): After the huge debate this original post created, we decided to refine and build upon the original article, bearing in mind the thoughts of some very insightful feedback left by some commenters. You can find the new article here. UPDATE (March 2018): Some of the comments are not taking into…
Backbone has made me a better programmer
Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.
Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web
WebSockets, SPDY, SSL, and persistent connections are in, except that our infrastructure can't support most of these use cases. To enable the modern, real-time web, we need to drag our 'back office' architectures into this century.
Twitter crashes itself with commas
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Throne of JS: Eight JavaScript MV* Libraries Compared
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It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard
In a great victory for open standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has just standardized Opus as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state of the art, free audio ...
An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple's iPhone 4S webpage
The "phone stage" (blue-bordered box) contains all 6 "slides" of the animation sequence and has a transition css property with a duration and timing function (a cubic bezier curve). For the phone stage to cycle from one slide to the next, its css transform property is updated with new translate and rotate values. At…
Twitter’s poor API documentation practices
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Hello Opera 12
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
Firefox 12 released
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux makes updating the browser easier and includes more than 85 improvements to built-in developer tools. We put a lot of wo
I can manipulate your amazon.com recommendations
I can put any item of my choice on your personalized amazon.com homepage. Did I hear you say Bollocks! ? Well, here is proof:
Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format
Firefox 15 (now in the Beta channel) supports the Opus audio format, via the Opus reference implementation. What is it? Opus is a completely free audio format that was recently ...
Basecamp Next: UI Preview
When we started thinking about the design of the all new Basecamp, we had three key things in mind: Speed Big picture Focus With that in mind, and many experiments later, we came up with a unique interface that is crazy fast, excellent for big picture broad overviews, and perfectly ta…
Olark launches "Targeted Chat"
Welcome to Olark's Help Center! Learn how to increase sales using live chat — Guides for automated messages, ecommerce integrations, reporting, customer information and more.