27Nov0
Highlights for Week 47/2011
Posted by Michael Gaigg
- CSS3 secrets - 10 things you might not know about CSS3 (by Lea Verou)
- Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0 (by jQuery Mobile, Todd Parker)
- NASA now seeking candidates for astronaut positions (by NASA)
- A Look Inside Mobile Design Patterns (by Theresa Neil)
- Using Fonts for Icons… (by Chris Coyier)
- Make Your Own Fonts: Free Font Editors (Elsewhere on the Web) (by Jacob Gube)
- Which Custom Web Fonts Solution Should You Use? (by Chris Spooner)
- Create CSS3 Buttons Compatible with All Browsers (by Madalin Tudose)
- Quantifiable Design: How to Remove Subjectivity from the Process (by Stuart Silverstein)
- 25 Google+ tips and tricks (by Vail Joy)
26Jun0
Highlights of Week 25/2011
Posted by Michael Gaigg
- Colors in Web Design: An Exploration (by Kayla Knight) - in-depth reflection about color theory
- Top 10 Project Management Software for Remote Teams (by Rean) - exactly what the title says
- An Exploration of Website Redesigns: Tips and Examples (by Mohammad Moradi) - make a plan and consider doing it at all (sometimes)
- #19: Sketchnotes (by Eva-Lotta Lamm) - inspiring perspective on taking notes that aren't boring
- 10 Big Brand Lessons From The Corporate Social Media Summit (by Rohit) - talking about brands and their approaches to success
- Getting to grips with a mobile accessibility strategy (by iheni) - great approach on trying to establish a mobile accessibility strategy
- 5 Dangerous Ideas for Designers (by Scott Berkun) - be an ambassador of good ideas and sell and defend them to the right people at the right time
- HOW TO: Choose a PHP Framework for Your Next Project (by Kelli Shaver) - pick your weapons...
- Brainstorming Tips and Techniques for Freelancers (by Samar Owais) - in the end it all depends on you and how you set up the rules, but good tips in here
20May0
Highlights of Week 20/2011
Posted by Michael Gaigg
- How to Create a Clean 3D Button in Photoshop (by Madalin Tudose) - nice tutorial and result
- Effective Website Help Systems: Tips and Examples (by Mohammad Moradi) - essential tips and best practices for designing effective help pages
- 10 handy jQuery mobile tips and snippets to get you started (by Patrick McNeil) - gotta love jQuery mobile, nice tips for its usage
- 6 Lessons From Jim Collins On Becoming Great (by Rohit) - yes, turn off your gadgets
- Design Beautiful “Coming Soon” Page: 37 Templates & Tutorials (by bellefoong) - simply put: beautiful
- Flashback: Every time you add something you take something away (by Jason Fried) - be aware of it of this paradox!!
23Apr1
Highlights of Week 16/2011
Posted by Michael Gaigg
- Using “Preventive Medicine” Against Bad Clients (by Maria Malidaki) - Love the section about useful documents
- Accessibility and web innovation – a talk (by Christian Heilmann) - Chris makes a case for deeper involvement in the actual development of cool technology that is accessible (or cool development that makes technology accessible)
- Architecture v. Web Design (by Dmitry Fadeyev) - Dmitry on the essence of architecture to create space and how this is (or is not) applied to web design
- What’s new for web designers – Apr 2011 (by Cameron Chapman) - Once again, great collection of apps for designers, thx Cameron
- Are your users S.T.U.P.I.D? (by Stephen Turbek) - Get Smart (and download the info poster)
- Essential Facebook Etiquette: 10 Dos and Don’ts (by bellefoong) - Funny how we need to learn social etiquette again, huh?
- How To Design The Perfect Form (by Brian) - Extensive collection of examples and best practices for forms
- Integrating UX into Agile Development (by Janet M. Six) - State your requirements as user stories: As a [role], I want to [action based on a feature], so [user goal].
- Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native (by Andre Charland, Brian LeRoux) - Excellent research on web versus native development for mobile. Sooner or later we all need to understand the ins and outs of mobile dev.
- A new micro clearfix hack (by Nicolas Gallagher) - updated hack to clear floats without resorting to using presentational markup
- Web Developers vs. Web Developers (Infographic Remix) (by Cassie McDaniel) - nice remix of the original web designers vs web developers infographic by Shane Snow
18Mar0
Highlights of Week 11/2011
Posted by Michael Gaigg
Thanks to everybody that sent me link suggestions. Here the highlights for week 11/2011:
- HTML5 – Moving from hacks to Solutions (by Chris) - yes, you can. Continue dreaming, sometimes dreams come true.
- Mobile Form Design Strategies (by Chui Chui Tan) - good read with lots of illustrations to back up its arguments
- Common Elements Used in Wooden UI Design (by Callum Chapman) - includes tutorials on how to create wooden looking graphics
- HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Subcontracting With Freelancers (by Shane Pearlman) - it comes down to the team and the relationship to its members
- Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know (by bellefoong) - yes, oughta know!
- 6 Pack Holder for your bike (by etsy.com) - very clever!!!
- 7 Basics to Create a Good Design Brief (by Cameron Chapman) - The actual design isn't as important as many of us often believe
- 7 myths about paper prototyping (by David Travis) - you cannot draw well, huh? No excuses!!
- Embedding PHP In CSS (by Banga Sanga) - not sure about the performance hit but since it's a simple one-time parsing on the server it shouldn't really matter.
- The Redesign Disease (by Dmitry Fadeyev) - Realign instead...
- Less Framework 4 - An adaptive CSS grid system that is well worth looking at.
- Effective Communication: Getting All You Can Out of What You’ve Got (by Julia May) - I know, lot's of literature about this topic out there, but nevertheless a good summary with good points on how to improve
9Nov1
Web GIS: Principles and Applications [Paperback]
Posted by Michael Gaigg
Web GIS
I'm happy to introduce a new book which was co-authored by my colleague Pinde Fu: "Web GIS: Principles and Applications".
I'm really excited about this, not only because good GIS resources are scarce but also because he used screenshots of applications that I have designed over the past years, e.g. geodata.gov, GeoPortal Toolkit, Loma Linda Medical Center Response System, HydroViewer.
How much better can it get when your design ends up in a book?
Audience
While the content of the book is targeted at readers at all skill levels I can see it as a great teaching source as well as invaluable resource for managers and aspiring GIS developers to understand the principles of web applications.
Content
The content of the book is focused on the conceptual level (you won't find code samples) by trying to be systematic and as comprehensive as possible which I believe was done superbly. Nevertheless the authors do cover important new developments like geospatial Web services (REST), geobrowsers, cloud computing, geoportals, mashups, mobile GIS, Gov 2.0, geotagging, ArcGIS APIs for JavaScript, Flex, and Silverlight.
Table of Contents
- GIS in the Web Era
- Technical Basics
- Geospatial Web Services
- Geospatial Mashups
- Mobile GIS
- Geoportals
- NSDI in the Web 2.0 Era
- Web GIS Applications in E-Business
- Web GIS Applications in E-Government
- Hot Topics and New Frontiers
29Sep0
Highlights of Week 38/2010
Posted by Michael Gaigg
- What Websites Can Learn From Mobile (by Michael Wilson) - funny, but my take-away is that 'constraints improve creative design'
- The Perfect Web Designer Should Not Exist (by Jason Gross) - base your design decisions on your sites' target audience and their goals - nothing else matters... uuuhhhhhhh....
- 97 Things to Know about Usability (by Jeff Sauro) - fantastic, fantastic, fantastic - must read!!
- Top 5 Web Font Design Trends to Follow (by Christina Warren) - WOFF-WOFF, love to hear that dog barking..
16Aug0
Highlights of Week 32/2010
Posted by Michael Gaigg
- Real Time Web Analytics Services – Best of (by hongkiat) - which web analytics service do you use?
- Guidelines for URI Design (by Jacob Gillespie) - URI structure is primarily important for user recognition and easy of use, search engine optimization is nice too.
- 8 Ways to Make Your Website Mobile Friendly (by Joel Reyes) - isn't it sweet that our mobiles will drive us towards better web development also? Something we should have been doing for a long time already?
- The ADA and the Web: Concerns and Misconceptions (by Jared Smith) - Is an accessibility law for e-commerce coming? Will this take the look of the web back to 1990? Jared has some nice Q&A there...
- Stop Designing Aesthetics, Start Designing Emotions (by John O’Nolan) - Design for emotions, definitely not a new concept but usually poorly covered. John takes a good stab on it.
- 5 Small Biz Web Design Trends to Watch (by Grace Smith) - Minimalism, Unique Photography, Bold Typography, Clear Calls to Action, A/B Testing - what more to say?
- iPad User Experience Guidelines (by UX Magazine) - with the source doc at Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the iPad
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