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Required reading: Typography in ten minutes
This is a bold claim, but i stand behind it: if you learn and follow these five typography rules, you will be a better typographer than 95% of professional writers and 70% of...
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Adaptive Backgrounds: The jQuery Plugin
Adaptive Backgrounds – a jQuery plugin to extract dominant colors from <img> tags and apply them to their parent. Hat tip to Thomas Gumz for this. More >
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How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell
An oldie, but goodie from The Oatmeal site: More >
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Outdated UX Patterns and Alternatives
I must admit, that after reading the article “Outdated UX Patterns and Alternatives” by Brian Krall, I felt a bit of guilt about some of the UX patterns that I am still using in some of my work. After...
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Basic Facts and Resources You Need to Know Now About Web Accessibility
Bruce Elgort:Here are some great resources that my colleague Lorelle VanFossen has put together regarding web accessibility. Have a read and let me know if web accessibility is part of your design...
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Derek Featherstone: CSS, Accessibility, and You
Here’s a free, hour-long talk that Derek Featherstone recently delivered at the CSS Developer Conference in New Orleans. When most people think about accessibility, they think about HTML as the...
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F*ck You, Pay Me
Today in my Business Web Practices class, I had the pleasure of sharing this video with the class. If you are a creative, a programmer or involved in any type of business you must watch Mike Monteiro’s...
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This is why I teach at Clark College
I just received this message from a graduate of the Clark College Web Development program: Hey Bruce! Just wanted to say hi and give you an update. I’ve been at my front end developer job for almost...
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Miranda Slayter: UX Portfolios — Everybody is lying to you
Portland, Oregon based interactive designer Miranda Slayter who specializes in UX/UI Design wrote a nice article entitled “UX Portfolios – Everybody is Lying to You“. If youj are web designer or web...
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The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex
They are what philosopher Harry Frankfurt would call “bullshitters.” Those that are giving advice for the sake of giving advice, without any regard as to how it is actually implemented, if it can even...
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Road Runner Rules: More what you’d call Guidelines for Design Systems
Wouldn’t it be great if we could spend less time trying to style the markup we’ve been handed, and more time creating a system of smart, reusable design components? Well, we’re in luck. With the...
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