@jackerhack Interesting. How does the texture differ for greens and reds/browns?
The Indian vegetarian / non-vegetarian mark is a good example of being meaningless to colourblind people. Ask @jackerhack, he knows.
Important yet often overlooked, colour blindness has severe impacts on usability.
@hellogeri shows what we can do: 24ways.org/2…cessibility/[+]
Where @craigmod hails The Magazine for dropping legacy cruft & doing better with the essentials. Progress, basically: craigmod.com…_publishing/[+]
@ap00rv We’ve always found Times to be very readable, and LCDs have, if anything, only improved legibility. Thanks for the feedback though.
@ap00rv Are you saying ‘widely installed’ is undesirable?
@ap00rv Not really. It’s well digitized, widely installed and (we believe) quite good at its job as a body type.
@ap00rv Times New Roman.
@ap00rv Sorry, Twitter was showing a low-res version. The type looks fine in the screenshot on yfrog. What looks wrong to you?
@ap00rv What device and browser was that from?
The ageing user authentication paradigm: miranj.in/bl…ng-user-auth[+]
(Triggered by MailChimp’s recent post on ditching ‘social’ login buttons.)
@advaitamusic We would LOVE to! // @rashmiswamy
@_karan Perhaps, but wouldn’t iOS style elastic scroll edges(?) be an improvement without being confusing? // @shauninman
Give a Damn: clayallsopp….give-a-damn/[+]
What does it mean to be simple?
To have a single core idea, all the way down. 52weeksofux….to-be-simple[+]
Indian Railways – Live!
Rail Radar: railradar.tr…enquiry.com/[+]
SEO for dummies:
“So what you’re saying is I should cover myself in dung in order to draw attention?”
“Yup.”
“Please take all my money.”
The Great Discontent turned one: thegreatdisc…com/year-one[+]
Happy Birthday @greatdiscontent!
… and convince other people that it’s worth their time as well.”
– @wilsonminer in Issue 3 of @offscreenmag offscreenmag.com/issue3/[+]
“As a designer, your influence is proportionate to your ability to articulate your point of view…
Also, the feedback form on data.gov.in[+] cannot handle the ’ character, so steer clear of it. #Protip
Wow. This can be huge. data.gov.in/[+]
(via @gonsalves_r, who calls for a law against
The best way to be future friendly is to be backwards-compatible.
— Jeremy @adactio Keith lukew.com/ff…try.asp?1616[+]
“If you’re selling your soul, you may as well do it asynchronously.” socialitejs.com/[+]
Mister @kylemeyer on long-form pages: blog.kylemey…so-damn-long[+]
Clarity is job #1 bokardo.com/…face-design/[+]
Time for a weather break! http://t.co/nCZnRTP9
Previous quote from this excellent document on standardising [your] CSS conventions — github.com/n…diomatic-css[+]
“All code in any code-base should look like a single person typed it, no matter how many people contributed.”
— @necolas
The kind that makes you step back and pause.
10 Timeframes — contentsmaga…-timeframes/[+]
@gonsalves_r Pulling forward the identity you set out last year. @droidconIN @jackerhack
@rakeshrach Thanks Rakesh! This was a really fun site to work on, but yes we should’ve made its status a little more apparent.
In which we play with easter eggs and 3D transforms, and steal from Mac OS X.
@droidconIN 2012 Teaser: droidcon.in/2012/[+]
@gonsalves_r @3_Sided_Coin Heh. We usually reserve that path for browser compatibility, but yes sometimes CSS just steals the show.
The New Design Guidelines: thenewdesign…anharms.com/[+]
Smooth.
@rakeshrach That’s what we defer to when we have to use Git.
@rakeshrach On a mercurial server running on one of our subdomains, behind HTTPS/SSH auth. We’d be on GitHub in a heartbeat if it was HgHub.
Type, pan, scrub, jump; the Greta Sans type specimen site by @thijs is a lot of fun!
greta.tptq.com/[+] (via @iA)
Plain English. wellwrittenw…43650/efront[+]
One of us is at #metarefresh. Meet @souvikdg. He is fat and in all-black.
OH: We’ve never sent a single email ki aap aaye nahin meri dukaan pe bade din se.
Indian Railways’ real-time train status website gets a (fantastic) major re-design: trainenquiry…indexNS.aspx[+]
More like this please!
Come and watch our own @souvikdg talk about ‘Designing in the Browser’ this Saturday at Meta Refresh, Bangalore. metarefresh.in/2012/[+]
@gonsalves_r Thanks Rahul! @VasuTweets You’ve got mail.
@VasuTweets Web development company you say? We’d love to find out more about this ‘exciting work’. miranj.in/[+]
Quoted from jwz’s jwz.org/blog…-of-firefox/[+]
“Meanwhile, I’m going to use the app whose UI works best, not the app whose development methodology most fits my political preconceptions.”
Monday humour: gradientsmot…rfucker.com/[+] (via @dezinezync)
@hfactor Care to elaborate on that? We’d love to know which areas need most improvement. @jackerhack @jishnu7
Look what @gonsalves_r brought us! instagr.am/p/I_yTH5lzlG/[+]
@rohancs Ooh. Link?
Would you like to hear @souvikdg on why designing sites in the browser (like we do here at Miranj) Makes Sense™?
No denying the shabby state of most Indian Government websites. Sadly, not much is happening.
Here’s a first step. metarefresh….n/takecharge[+]
@webaficionado :).
We got another chance to help @hasgeek, & this time for something close to our hearts — web design.
Meet Meta Refresh: metarefresh.in/[+]
Skolar is going Indic (starting with Devanagari and Gujarati)! rosettatype…._section=141[+] /via @divya
*Offer valid till stocks last. :P
Delhi peeps: Head over to Miranj HQ by 8pm to sample some Agra ke rasgulle, Panchi ke pethe, Bokaro se milkcake, home made peda & more.
Holy smokes! Inception Explained: inception-explained.com/[+]
@gonsalves_r Haha!
@gonsalves_r It was her tweet that brought this to our attention in the first place! :) /@divya
We’ve seen a TED talk from 2023, but what about web design from the future?
The Weyland Industries website, 2073: weylandindustries.com/[+]
That and more on vendor prefix & video DRM delusions in @adactio’s review of the recently concluded SXSW: adactio.com/…ournal/5289/[+]
“A browser’s user-agent string isn’t an identifier, it’s a reverse-chronological history of the web.” — @adactio
HTTP/1.twitter 301 Moved Permanently
Location: @miranj
Geo-geeks, @hasgeek is organising a workshop on location services this Friday+Saturday in Bangalore. Last day to book: workshop.cartonama.com/[+]
@vishalarora28 Thanks! :)
The aforementioned Futura-using @UseClear-style “flat UI” Scorekeeper app is free for a limited time! itunes.apple…/id463243024[+] /via @gonsalves_r
@VarunSPuri Thanks VSP!
@_karan Thanks Karan! We’ll work harder on the enticement this year.
@rashmiswamy Thanks Rashmi!
@rakeshrach Thanks Rakesh!
@konarkmodi Thanks dude! :)
We just turned one! miranj.in/blog/2012/one[+]
box-sizing:border-box is ready for prime time! paulirish.co…der-box-ftw/[+]
All those curses & containers… brings tears to our eyes. /via @rasagy
Coming Soon? No, No! miranj.in/bl…/coming-soon[+]
Here’s a site that made us smile today. teixido.co/[+]
“Prosecutors will be Violated.”
In which we gush over @stripe, a new payment gateway/service we can’t wait to use: miranj.in/bl…/2012/stripe[+]
To-do lists continue raising the bar for simple interfaces. The latest one to do so is ‘Clear’ and it looks fantastic! realmacsoftw…e.com/clear/[+]
Never a bad time for @espiekermann’s 7 typo tips: fontshop.com…ypo_tips.pdf[+]
Supplements well our intro to web typography: miranj.in/bl…pography-web[+]
Vimeo is getting a pretty rad makeover. Take a sneak peak: vimeo.com/new[+]
xScope, one of the indispensable tools from our web design arsenal just hit 3.0. xscopeapp.com/[+]
From the folks at The @Iconfactory.
This little bit of JavaScript auto-refreshes your CSS files whenever they are saved. Should come handy for local dev. cssrefresh.frebsite.nl/[+]
Flickr is dropping support for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3.6 going forward: blog.flickr….-year-fresh/[+]
A boilerplate for apps leveraging Backbone.js github.com/t…-boilerplate[+]
From @tbranyen and team at Bocoup weblog.bocou…-boilerplate[+]
The New Web Typography, now on Internet Explorer 10+ or Firefox 8+. ie.microsoft…u/index.html[+]
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