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Creative Use Of Symbol Fonts: Time Display

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In his article The Era of Symbol Fonts, Brian Suda refers to Timepiece Rounded, an OpenType font that makes use of the symbol font concept and specifically ligatures to display clock hands! For instance, a time string such as "19:52:45" will be displayed as follows: The source code for this contains merely text and and a bit of CSS styling: <div class="timepiece missswiss"><span class="clock" id="missswiss" style="display: block; font-size: 226px;">19:52:45</span></div> Pretty awesome!

21. April 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applikation

A Few Notes On Responsive Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I've been doing quite a bit of work involving responsive web design lately, which is why I thought I'd share a few useful resources I came across. First, there's an article by Luke Wroblewski about the importance of considering mobile devices first for websites and web applications. Ethan Marcotte describes foundations and some techniques of responsive web design. An article by James Young deals with 'the top responsive web design problems and how to avoid them' Brad Frost ...

“Developers Just Can’t Design!”

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Time and time again I hear statements such as: Developers just can't design! I think this point of view is mistaken. Not only does it state that software developers have a somewhat innate inaptitude for design but to some extent it also implies that for developers design is something not worth comprehending. „Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." There's a huge misunderstanding in this mindset: Design is not ...

24. März 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Software

How-To: Instant Website Optimization for Retina Displays

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last month I recommended an article by Reda Lemeden about designing for Retina displays. Today, as a follow-up, if you will, I'd like to suggest reading a how-to by Kyle J. Larson on website optimization for Retina displays. 'Instant Website Optimization for Retina Displays' describes the process of creating and optimizing various website elements such as images, fonts, icons and backgrounds for high-resolution displays. The author starts off with creating high-density images and continues to outline ...

20. März 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applikation

Great Review of ‘The Design of Everyday Things’

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At UsabilityPost there's an excellent review of Donald Norman's seminal book 'The Design of Everyday Things' that not only describes the book but also tells a whole lot about user experience design.

13. März 2013 by Bjoern in Design

User Efficiency vs. Machine Efficiency

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Nice example on how machine efficiency doesn't necessarily equal user efficiency: For example, which of the following takes less time? Heating water in a microwave for one minute and ten seconds or heating it for one minute and eleven seconds? From the standpoint of the microwave, one minute and ten seconds is the obviously correct answer. From the standpoint of the user of the microwave, one minute and eleven seconds is faster. Why? Because in the ...

12. März 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Designing For Retina Displays

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Under http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/08/20/towards-retina-web/ there's a nice article about what to consider in terms of high-resolution / Retina displays when designing your next website and how to address common issues with how websites are rendered on Retina displays.

17. Februar 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applikation

Live Tools For Building Website Elements

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Ui Parade have released a series of design tools that allow you to have common website elements generated in HTML / CSS: http://livetools.uiparade.com These tools include: Button Builder Form Builder Icon Bulder Ribbon Builder Have a look at Ui Parade's actual website, too. It lists quite a bunch of useful and inspiring design elements.

20. Januar 2013 by Bjoern in Design, Web Applikation

Bauhaus and Web Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.The other day I've read this somewhat older yet still relevant article by Simon Collision: Bauhaus Ideology and the Future of Web Design. In a stream of thought kind of way it deals with the main tenets of the Bauhaus school of thought and how those relate to modern and future web design. It draws upon Bauhaus ideas such as "form follows function", simplicity and the unification of art, craft, and technology - most of ...

16. Dezember 2012 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Web

Piano Stairs – A Brilliant Design

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.How to improve a millenia-old design:

8. Dezember 2012 by Bjoern in Design, Ideen

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