Nice overview of the classList API
Links
Style Guide Boilerplate
Jump start a style guide for a web site
Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
Fascinating look at the remnants of the Industrial Age of Silicon Valley.
What we see now is a surreal imitation of the suburban industrial parks and commercial spaces of yesteryear. They’re built atop the past’s mistakes, erasing them from our maps and eyes.
And yet, as the humans eat dosas and climb fake mountains and learn acupuncture and buy lap dances, beneath the asphalt and concrete, the microbes eat toxic waste sweetened with molasses, cleaning up our mistakes.
A revolution began here. And this is what’s left over.
The slippery slope | 90 Percent Of Everything
The slippery slope | 90 Percent Of Everything
Transcript from a talk on Dark Patterns (anti-patterns)
Buttons
CSS button library built with Sass and Compass
Webfonts Corner
Visual gallery of websites identifying the web fonts used
Think Critical: Layered Glass, The Nothing UI
Think Critical: Layered Glass, The Nothing UI
iOS 7 is not so much a blank canvas as it is an empty space waiting to be filled. The only thing the new design language says you can’t do is make UI’s the way developers have been making them for the last six years.
stratēchery by Ben Thompson | Friction
stratēchery by Ben Thompson | Friction
Change is guaranteed, but the type of change is not; never is that more true than today. See, friction makes everything harder, both the good we can do, but also the unimaginably terrible. In our zeal to reduce friction and our eagerness to celebrate the good, we ought not lose sight of the potential bad.
We are creating the future, and “better” does not win by default.
Progressive enhancement is still important – JakeArchibald.com
Progressive enhancement is still important – JakeArchibald.com
Jake Archibald provides plenty of reasons and rationales for progressive enhancement
Achieving good legibility and readability on the Web
Achieving good legibility and readability on the Web
Nice tips for well polished web typography