Making it LESS painful.
I’ve been dabbling with LESS recently, and at first, I hated it. But now I’m slowly converting, and here’s a few quick technical and convention-based tips, to hopefully reduce its PITA levels.
My design/dev Picks – (2012 so far)
Whilst spending a week on the pistes in Andorra, I kept track of a few of the latest goings-on on the web. Due to a lack of Mac, I saved most of them to read when I arrived back in the UK. And I was actually surprised to see what a kick-start 2012 has had so far. Continue reading →
Why circles are inside-out
Google seems to be touting the idea of “circles” quite a lot recently, and Facebook quickly responded with making its lists more integrated and easier to use. But from the day this concept was announced, I’ve thought it was flawed.
My state with everyday apps
I really need to sort my workflow with everyday technology. The fact that I’ve even wrote this kind of document assures that I’m going insane with it all. So, I figured I’d share my notes… Continue reading →
Responding to Responsive Web Design
‘Responsive Web Design’ has started to shape the way designers and developers create sites and applications. I’ve often heard it mentioned in meetings with clients; explaining it as a lever for fundamental design decisions.
But I now feel like it’s time for it to evolve into something else entirely.
Young people in the digital industry
Our industry is thriving with young, talented designers & developers at the moment. (By young, I’m referring to people who are thinking of going into it full-time) The only problem is, I feel like not enough advice is given out these guys, so I’ve tried to alleviate that…
CSS Techniques: September Roundup
As well as settling into my new job in at Made by Many, this month has been about creating some very small CSS tricks (as opposed to any big front-end experiments). Unfortunately, I’ve posted them in a few different places; so I thought I would summarise them, and explain them in a bit more depth.
DRY Chaining with jQuery
Here’s a very quick idea for applying the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) pattern to jQuery selectors. By no means is it a complex idea, and it might already be possible via another method, but it’s helping me optimise my JavaScript.
Update: It turns out that jQuery does have this functionality built-in. When using the ‘toggle’ and ‘toggleClass‘ methods, you can choose to override it with the ‘switch’ parameter. Every day is a school day! I still think the principle of this code is one to think about.
Moving down to London.
Big news for me. I’m off to work for @madebymany in London from the end of August.
I will be leaving the awesome guys and girls at Motionlab (for the second time!) in a few weeks, packing up my gear, and taking on the South.
MxM really struck me when I went to see them. Their way of working is second to none, and the projects are nothing but cutting-edge.
Basically, I’m massively excited.
I will be back up North when I can, so I will still be in touch with you all. Plus, (if I know you), it’d be great to meet up for a pint if you’re ever nearby.
Bring it on!
Announcing the OMB Project
The XMB (XrossMediaBar) by Sony is a huge UI design breakthrough. Everyone loves it. It’s so easy to use, even my mum (who is PC-illiterate) knows how to use it transfer music to it, and use the PlayTV functionality.
Yet, I’ve often through about its delivery to other devices.
It would be great to have it on your mobile; have it on a suitable media website… basically, have it wherever you need to access your media. And modern technologies are allowing us to develop these open interfaces with relative ease.
Here I have the first incarnation of my OMB Project — Go to http://omb.so
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