You’ve heard the saying, “Form over function”; but for your website visitors, form is a part of function. A web form is something that looks easy; but is difficult to get right. But here’s an excellent blogpost on “The 10 Commandments of Good Form Design on the Web”. Read more ›
“To know your code editor is to know the force”, Yoda would have said if he was a web developer. 🙂 But seriously, the faster you can wrangle code and data with you code editor, the more productive you’ll be (and the more Jedi points you’ll earn). Read more ›
This week’s nugget is for inspiration and is a TEDTalks video featuring Roman Mars, host of the popular “99% Invisible” podcast. He shares flag design principles and highlights the good, bad, and ugly of city flags. You just might be inspired (like I was) to take a look at your own nearby cities’ flags to see how they can be improved.
Roman Mars: Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you’ve never noticed | YouTube
Mac only: Sometimes it’s a pain working with text and extracting data from it. It’s tedious and easy to make a typo or miss a snippet of data. Let’s do something about that. Read more ›
FirehoseProject: For the past couple of weeks I’ve been following lessons to build my Splurty app, but was feeling kinda lost because I wasn’t understanding how its different pieces fit together. Read more ›
Fun: Instead of tapping on your computer keyboard, let’s mix things up and use it to play classical music, shall we? Read more ›
Find your center. Breathe. Nope, we ain’t in a yoga studio. Just testing out this new CSS centering tool. 🙂 Read more ›
Sorry, homey. I failed to write blogposts for you for the last 2 Saturdays (thus, the sad dog pic). But there’s an interesting development. Read more ›
Flash for animated background gradients?! We don’t need no stinking Flash. We have CSS3 and a nifty tool called CSS Gradient Animator that makes it a cinch. Read more ›
Mac only: Sketch is a great tool that’s become quite popular (also one of my fave apps). This week’s blip highlights a cool blogpost that shares meaty shortcuts and GIF’s to make working in Sketch even faster. Read more ›