Category Archives: inspiration

Scripting Enabled Day 1

I attended the excellent Scripting Enabled conference and developer day recently held in London. It was extremely enlightening about various aspects of the web and how users with varied access difficulties are affected by the decisions us developers make every … Continue reading

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@media Session 5

Designing User Interfaces: Details Make the Difference Dan Rubin The main topics Dan covered were: Proportional Design Borders, Lines & Layer Modes Texture Tricks Other Interesting Stuff Proportion Creating patterns for margins and padding aids a sense of cohesion with … Continue reading

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@media Session 1

Designing Our Way Through Data Jeff Veen Jeff’s opening keynote for @media was very thought provoking, as usual. He spoke about data visualisation and how diagrams can often show us things more quickly and more intuitively than a table of … Continue reading

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London Web Week – Microformats vEvent

The last week of May was designated London Web Week, and I aimed to attend as many events as possible during the schedule. I took the sensible step of staying at a friend’s house in Peckham for a good chunk … Continue reading

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@media – Five Steps To Better Typography

Next up was Mark Boulton, who wanted us to work with typography in a better way. Be Appropriate & Adaptable Typefaces tell stories, and the web is still playing catchup with this power. Comic Sans is appropriate for the menu … Continue reading

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