Efficiently Simplifying Navigation, Part 1: Information Architecture | Smashing UX Design

Efficiently Simplifying Navigation, Part 1: Information Architecture | Smashing UX Design Navigation, as crucial as it is to the user experience, is merely a means to an end — the end being to consume content. This is why users have very contrasting expectations about content and navigation. While content is supposed to be unique, surprising and…

Stacks

Stacks A jQuery plugin for iOS style headers For a project I was working on, I wanted to create a simple feature: as the user scrolls down the page, I wanted the heading for that section to follow the user. Partly so that navigation could follow the user, and partly to remind the user where…

Ughck. Images. – daverupert.com

Ughck. Images. – daverupert.com Lots has happened in the world of Responsive Images since I wrote Mo’ Pixels, Mo’ Problems. And by lots, I mean nothing at all. It’s been over a year since The Great WHATWG Responsive Image Debacle and we’re still at square one. Browsers want to implement srcset because “it’s easy”, but lots of developers (myself…

Google Visual Assets Guidelines – Part 2 on Behance

Google Visual Assets Guidelines – Part 2 on Behance   Google’s brand is shaped in many ways; one of which is through maintaining the visual coherence of our visual assets.   In January 2012, expanding on the new iconography style started by Creative Lab, we began creating this solid, yet flexible, set of guidelines that have been helping Google’s…

Google Visual Assets Guidelines – Part 1 on Behance

Google Visual Assets Guidelines – Part 1 on Behance     Google’s brand is shaped in many ways; one of which is through maintaining the visual coherence of our visual assets.   In January 2012, expanding on the new iconography style started by Creative Lab, we began creating this solid, yet flexible, set of guidelines that have been helping…

iOS7: They’re Doing It Right by ZURB

iOS7: They’re Doing It Right by ZURB Apple’s new iOS7 is a great step forward full of useful innovations and a great visual refresh, but their work has been marred by the design details that people simply can’t look past. Tim Cook unveiling iOS7 to the WWDC audience. (Image from Apple) The other day Apple…

CSS play | Responsive image map

CSS play | Responsive image map CSS play – Responsive Image Map  For IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, iOS and Android OS, including Touch Screen Devices