We've been through a lot over the past year. We acquired Pattern Tap and Forrst . We released our Product Design Suite . We moved to a brand new building. It was a time of change, but we didn't want to lose ourselves. It was time to regroup and fully understand who we are as a company.
We believe in Design with a capital 'D.' After endless conversations, pages of notes and whiteboards full of sketches, we set down our ideas into the newly evolved ZURB.com.
…Adam Goldstein, Hipmunk.com, Moving Fast While Caring About Design at Hipmunk
Justin Wilcox, Customer Development Labs, Testing MVPs with Crowdfunding
Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora of Back to the Roots, Making Decisions By Ignoring Sales Metrics
Stephanie Hay, FastCustomer, Lean Content: Testing Marketing Copy (Instead of Spinning Your Wheels)
Steve Blank, 10,000 Startups
2:20-3:45 Early Afternoon Talks
George Bilbrey, Return Path, Inc.…
As Design Lead Jonathan has written before , you can certainly hide elements on a smaller device with a change in the markup, such as .show-on-phone or .hide-on-mobile classes. You can also rearrange the navigation so that it's not in your face at the top.
Jonathan has suggested writing the nav last after the content, and having it "pull" to the left. If you are using Foundation , it would look like:
Jonathan points out that touch devices also have no …
… Brian Ford ( Engine Yard ) - Towards a Design for Ruby
* Ben Orenstein ( thoughtbot ) - Refactoring From Good to Great
* Mike Perham ( The Clymb ) - Asynchronous Programming for Fun and Profit
* Aaron Patterson ( AT&T Interactive) - Real Time Salami
* Sarah Mei ( Pivotal Labs) - The Insufficiency of Good Design
* Tom Lee ( New Relic *cough*) - Rapid Programming Language Prototypes with Ruby …
Introducing the Visual Design course at Starter League
In ten intensive weeks, we're looking to turn students from design enthusiasts into design practitioners. You'll get your hands dirty finessing the look and feel of web apps, while working your salesmanship skills to put together helpful, clear, and beautiful marketing sites. You'll study taste rather than trends. You'll become immersed in the foundations of classic typography and apply them to the web. You'll …
…objective, his design process and how it has changed, what the Golden Ratio is, and how it's used in Neat. Finally, they also discuss the Design for Developers workshop offered by thoughtbot, which teaches the fundamental design principles and tools to developers, and much, much more.
How to Design a Mobile Game with HTML5
Google and Microsoft Under Threat from the March of the Mobiles
This Guardian article talks about the idea of "peak search" and "peak desktop" — our industry's analogue to "peak oil" - how the shift to mobile technologies is affecting giants like Google and Microsoft. …
1. Select Design > MultiCloud Marketplace > Server Templates .
2. Search for and select the New Relic Performance Monitoring Toolbox ServerTemplate.
3. Once you've imported the ServerTemplate, find the New Relic RightScripts under Scripts .
4. The ServerTemplate contains different RightScripts:
* App New Relic RPM for PHP : Installs and configures the New Relic PHP agent and a local proxy daemon. It supports PHP versions 5.2 …
…a link bait, but has some good points, specifically, that I should be reading The Design of Design :
One of Brooks's many excellent points is that quality happens only if somebody has the responsibility for it, and that "somebody" can be no more than one single person—with an exception for a dynamic duo.
§ Don't be that person . How to not contribute to an open source project.
§ 48 out of 92 rated this helpful :
Perhaps the best-known …
"Gang of Four" Design Patterns
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