Posts Tagged ‘usability’

Few words can describe the euphoria I felt upon learning of widespread @font-face support. The time and effort once required to make typographically pleasing websites would be reduced forever. The very notion of dropping tools like Cufon, sIFR and image replacement had me grinning ear for ear. And what of body copy? Designers could finally [...]

40 Web Fonts for Body Copy

I have shrugged off responsive web design for some time now despite it’s growing popularity. I first came across “the concept” four years ago; at the time, responsive design required Javascript and dynamically changed stylesheets based on viewport size.  Suffice to say I have long been aware of the capability to adapt design based on [...]

Responsive Web Design, is it the Answer? or Just Responsive?

The four little words that make designers cringe, “make the logo bigger.” We joke about it all the time, sometimes with elaborate internet pranks like the make my logo bigger cream. Yet we get this request fairly often (myself almost every time a produce a design). So why is there this disconnect between designers and companies where [...]

Nobody Gives a Shit About Your Logo

What are Microformats? Simple data formats designed for humans first and machines second. Pre-defined classes developers can add to their xhtml tags adding semantic data that can be used by multiple applications. Why you should be using Microformats. The web is currently in it’s third generation and Web 3.0 is all about semantics. Microformats are [...]

Why aren’t you using Microformats?

After reading a few books on usability I had an “ah ha” moment. We spend so much time trying to make our websites and applications usable, yet so many of us (myself included) forget about functionality that is built into CSS that has the opportunity to enhance both the user experience and creativity of our [...]

:active, use it damn it…