Amazon Redesign
I especially like the new oversized search bar and hidden departments. Even the Shop By Department dropdown is simple and slick. The more monochromatic color palette highlights products and features, which is nice, but it also makes ads stand out more — hmmm, maybe I should switch to Valvoline.
Seems to still be rolling out, even our office gets mixed results when trying to view the update.
The goal of this technique is to deliver optimized, contextual image sizes for responsive layouts that utilize dramatically different image sizes at different resolutions. Ideally, this approach will allow developers to start with mobile-optimized images in their HTML and specify a larger size to be used for users with larger screen resolutions — without requesting both image sizes, and without UA sniffing.
jQuery plugin to support some neat image transitions.
(via Joe)
A reverse of traditional responsive design. Starting sites from small mobile pages to normal full desktop displays.
Legacy of Letters
Hand-drawn lettering that will make you green with the deepest envy for these skills.
Beautiful.
Terrible logo contest. While already over, it serves for humor or provides a glimpse of what it might have been like to design rainbowed colors and puppy-essence into a logo for “Excellencio”
Word Designs by Jim Lepage
Jim challenges himself to create designs for each book of the Bible in order to gain a different and disciplined appreciation for the Word of God. So far, so amazing…
This is a debate that has existed as long as I’ve been doing web design: In a web app, do you label text elements as ‘My ___’ or ‘Your ___’?
Erika Hall favors ‘Your’, and so have I for as long as I’ve been involved in the debate. In her words,
In their excellent Design Pattern Library, the Yahoo! Developer Network explains the heart of the problem their parent created. Instead of reinforcing a sense of ownership and agency, this unnatural locution feels presumptuous and alienating.
‘It is as if the user has printed out labels and stuck them to various objects: My Lunch, My Desk, My Red Stapler. Except the user hasn’t done this; you (the site) did it for them.’
This is lazy design and branding. It’s bad style.
Aside from being bad style, one of the fundamental problems with ‘My’ is that it becomes awkward to reference in help text, such as “To find your documents, simply navigate to your My Documents page….” Using the second-person eliminates this issue, among others.
(via Joe)
ANTETYPE
An upcoming prototyping and design application for user interface designers - by ERGOSIGN. (via AdobeGripes)
Mashable.com interviews Jesse Thomas of Jess3
How to make a Lost Cat poster if you’re a graphic designer and you don’t like doing free work for people. (via mikeindustries)
Jon Hicks gives a short recap of his process during the Shopify shopping bag logo refresh.
