Absolutely lovely site built on photo site du jour, Instagram. Great use of keyboard shortcuts to scroll through photos (use left / right arrows). You can also use up / down arrows to see all photos from currently selected user.
Tyler Tate's premise is that we need to move to more industrial scale production of digital sites and services.
Tyler identifies five key qualities of good re-usable UI components:
- sound design that meets the needs of users
- clean code
- ready to use, with one line of code being ideal
- easy to configure
- well documented
Useful looking template pack for using Keynote as a prototyping tool.
The more your clients understand the cost of features, the less likely they are to ask for things that don’t support their business objectives. Start big, end small.
This is something I have just been bitten by on a recent project.
It's Project Management 101 to clearly define what the functionality and expected features of project are, but if you don't nail these up front you're fighting a losing battle during implementation.
As Dave mentions the key is to get the client to invest in the actuality of what the feature means and an understanding of the weight of investment to deploy.
Posting yet another documentary about pizza making and the men that do it.
Worryingly this seems to be becoming a theme. There's something about the artisan aspect of this that appeals.
But for so long as this plan involves embedding control, surveillance and censorship into the very fabric of the information society's infrastructure, I'll continue to tour the world, for free, spending every penny I have and every ounce of energy in my body to fight you.