Imagine for a moment that CSS is a diligent (and somewhat queer) fashion designer. He is always trying to dress his subject matter in all manner of fashion, from the formal to the flashy. Think of CSS as a roving clothing-wielding fashionista.
CSS peppers his daily routine with studying his favourite subject matter: HTML Elements. The Elements are a curious set of creatures to CSS, and nowhere is this curiosity more evident than in CSS’s regular [and published I might add] fashion reports on his subject matter. Reading like the annals of an Ethnographer, CSS describes what it was like when he first encountered The Elements…
It has been more than 8 months since www.yola.com went live with a redesign, built and designed by a small team of people here in Cape Town.
Before we started the build (after months of design by committee), a simple decision was made: Let’s abandon Internet Explorer 6. This simple decision has had a significant impact on our development and design work at Yola, all for the better. Read the rest of this entry »
The touch-screen experience on the new iPad should be nothing short of amazing, if the iPhone is anything to go by. The user’s experience on this new device will tend towards a perfect one, a nirvana of human-machine connectedness, but comes with one major disclaimer: You have to be able to see the interface.
Touch Screen Interfaces - a big 'Up Yours' to non-sighted users. Photo by Steven Rhodes
Web Standards Advocates should really be called Zealots. I am also guilty of punting Web Standards, sometimes with no sound reasoning behind my convictions. This ‘blind faith’ led me to a point where one of my team members reigned me in and showed me the misinterpretation of my ways, and it had all to do with Reset CSS and my lack of ‘Sensible Defaults‘.
2 weeks ago, Jonathan dropped me an IM concerning a nifty little Mac OSX app called LESS. Essentially, LESS.app is a fancy GUI for a Ruby gem called LESSCSS, a CSS parsing and authoring tool designed to speed up CSS development.
I’m not going to go into detail about it’s function, but what I will do is give a review, highlight its pros and cons and maybe even offer some mixins you can use. Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t know how we do it, but each event we have for the SA UX Forum in Cape Town just seems to be better than the last.
60 chairs were laid out at the Bandwidth Barn tonight, we had wine sponsored by the CITI and snacks + drinks available. We were expecting less than 60, but in the end 75 UX-keen people showed up. This meant a dash for more space and seating, somehow we just managed to squeeze everyone in. Read the rest of this entry »
