Category Archives: Design
Oct 8, 2010 by Matt | Posted in Design, Featured
Twitter is slowly rolling out their new, more application-like interface. Some of you may already have had a chance to give it a test drive, but there are still plenty of tweets along the lines of “I want New Twitter! Why does everyone have it but me?” It seems like now is a good time to take a look at New Twitter, before everyone has it.
The bar floating at the top is statically positioned, so it’s visible as you scroll. This is handy, as you always have a button to post a new tweet within easy reach. Clicking it launches a pseudo-window overlay. It’s nice to have when you’re off looking at someone’s profile or putting together a List.
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Oct 6
Cats Who Code has posted a useful list of CSS3 button tutorials. There are some really nice ones, such as the “Google Buttons” and “Super Awesome Buttons.” It’s nice to finally see an alternative to the somewhat tedious “sliding doors” method that has been…
Aug 9
It’s been awhile since I spotlighted a cool design, and now is as good a time as any, so… Rule.fm is a web application with a spiffy design that a few noteworthy designers have commented on. It’s simple, it makes good use of whitespace,…
Jul 26
Have you ever noticed that Internet Explorer, with its great wisdom and intelligence, likes to add a useless scrollbar to the side of every HTML textarea? Most browsers add one when it is needed, but IE adds it in right away. There’s an easy…
Jun 25
The new iPhone 4’s screen may be the same size as its predecessor’s, but the resolution is much higher. 326 pixels per inch, versus the 160ppi of the previous models. (This works out to pixel dimensions of 960×640 for the new model and 320×480…
May 20
Google is taking on projects like sIFR and Cufón with their new Google Font API. A simple line of JavaScript lets you load a font family from their directory of open source fonts, allowing you to safely reference it within your CSS. Here is…
Mar 18
In 1997, Amazon filed for the infamous “1-Click Patent,” a “Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network” using a single click. Now, many companies other than Amazon use that exact same paradigm, some of them may have even been…
Mar 11
Once again, Envato has redesigned their Tuts+ blogs. The changes are primarily evolutionary, though there is a big difference. The new layout features a wider content area and a stronger focus on larger screen sizes. One of the first things I noticed was that…
Feb 12
The web design process is very much about how your site ‘looks’ and ‘feels’. Most people over the age of twenty five will remember – fondly or otherwise – that the Web was once awash with sites from ‘designers’ in the very loosest sense…
Jan 14
Want to round the corners of an element without messing around with images and tricky CSS? You can do it with pure CSS, but, of course, it won’t work in Internet Explorer. (Or Opera, for that matter.) Fortunately, the effect devolves gracefully. As an…
