RIP Camino caminobrowser.org/[+]
Remember the @nytimes’s Snow Fall? (nytimes.com/…2/snow-fall/[+])
Here’s @pitchforkmedia’s cover story (bonus: Daft Punk): pitchfork.co…r/daft-punk/[+]
Also, @Medium, we long for a future where your URLs are more readable and expose less gibberish like ‘898b8f78b021’. #overexposed
“I long for the future where I can safely assume my passwords are stolen”. So urges @fun_cuddles: medium.com/i…898b8f78b021[+]
Massimo @vignelli makes books: new.pentagra…makes-books/[+]
Ever wondered about the history of punctuation? Maximal meaning in minimal space: shadycharact…tus-article/[+] (via @turmericdesign)
And if you wish to get a taste of how much work Dropbox is doing to achieve their simplicity, spend some time using (the competing) Box.
“What we’re really trying to build is the Internet’s file system.” Dropbox founder Drew Houston on simplicity & more: technologyre…s-the-cloud/[+]
Clients that recognise the extra metadata can vastly improve the UI for notifications. Older clients continue treating it as regular email.
Re: last tweet, high time for an open standard / protocol built a-top emails for handling things like notifications.
Gov.UK Design Principles: gov.uk/designprinciples[+]
Transitional Interfaces: medium.com/d…926eb80d64e3[+]
And from @threepointone: hasgeek.tv/j…n-and-profit[+]
“Element queries” would indeed go a long way towards improving modularity in CSS: @ianstormtaylor: ianstormtayl…-are-a-hack/[+]
Small details, big difference. Microcopy: wellwrittenw…/46413192003[+]
Markup and Markdown: blog.editori…kdown-matter[+]
Tim Berners-Lee’s Principles of Design: w3.org/Desig…nciples.html[+]
The @GetEditorially team share their experience on drafting a human readable legal document (their Terms of Service): blog.editori…s-of-service[+]
@_achalv You should read our post about the state of user auth paradigms if you find this interesting. miranj.in/bl…ng-user-auth[+]
@rashmiswamy Thanks Rashmi, and Happy B’day to you too!
Ever the experimenter with simpler user auth, @marcoarment has gone with a password-less login for The Magazine: the-magazine.org/login[+]
@rakeshrach Shot in the afternoon sun, between 3 to 6pm using a Canon EOS 550D (on a tripod). We thoroughly enjoyed putting this together.
@rakeshrach Thanks Rakesh!
@_karan Yes, the talk videos should be available online sometime after the event.
We’re going to be speaking at @metarefresh in about 10 days. Here’s a sneak peek: miranj.in/bl…2013-preview[+]
A good reminder that every image should have alt
text, and many of those alt
values should be empty: alistapart.c…/on-alt-text[+]
@3_Sided_Coin Yes! Some more perspectives:
On ignorance: twitter.com/…976807440384[+] twitter.com/…123094171648[+]
On time: contentsmaga…-timeframes/[+]
On labelling buttons: d.pr/i/TIJV[+] /by @cameronmoll