alanvanroemburg: What a bunch of clowns at Samsung, who do you think you’re fooling? Clearly you have done a marvelous job copying Apple iPhone / iPad UI.

alanvanroemburg:

What a bunch of clowns at Samsung, who do you think you’re fooling? Clearly you have done a marvelous job copying Apple iPhone / iPad UI.

1 week ago

UX/UI: Heuristic Evaluation on Deadball Specialist HD

thomasdavies:

Recently I conducted a very short heuristic evaluation on Full Fat Games‘ Deadball Specialist HD (iTunes Link) for iPad.

1 week ago

Sneak: Fixing the background 'bleed'

I recently came up against an issue in Safari where the background colour of an element seemed to ‘bleed’ through the edge of the corners when applying both borders and a border-radius (see the image above). After seeing David Cole tweet about the same issue I resolved to find a solution,…

2 weeks ago

“CSS3” and its place in today’s world

I’m sure by now we are all very much aware of “CSS3” and what it means. However it seems the definition of its place in todays world has become a muddy puddle.

I myself use certain CSS3 additions in my work to help further an elements visual appearance or behaviour, this being of course a common use for style sheets in general. But it seems many people, mainly those who don’t work in a professional web design environment are, in my opinion, relying on CSS3 far too heavily to the point accessibility is being compromised for the sake of pretty animations in one specific browser. I believe it was Tim Van Damme who also came to the conclusion that to use CSS transitions you must still provide an identical page for other users minus the gimmicks. His example was perfect. Say you have a count down timer similar in style to a traditional tran station ticker board. If you want to try using CSS transitions to animate this ticker count down timer thing then by all means do, however you should take into account the fact that not all users will be able to see these animations and if they can’t will this count down still be accessible even if static?

I know there are many advocates for these “If my site doesn’t work then you should use my choice of browser” ideals. I myself find these sorts of messages insult peoples intelligence and freedom to use the internet as they choose.

You may now be thinking “I’m the designer, it’s my site I’ll make it how I want tough shit”. If so I shall leave you with this. If I were that dream big shot client. And I happen to open your folio in firefox and it doesn’t work? You’re not off to a good start. If you are a “designer” and do feels that way, then you need to look up the definition of what it is to “design”. Good design retains accessibility to all with or without sacrifice of “animated widgetry”.

By all means go crazy with the flipping and the flopping, the sliding and poping of your DOM elements but do spare a thought for those less fortunate than yourself and make sure the bloody thing works. 

2 weeks ago
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