You, A Rocket Scientist? | Fast Company
Nice! A feature on Ariel and her spacehacking ways.
Archive: September 24th, 2012
Q&A with Jeremy Keith - Charlotte Front-End Developers (Charlotte, NC) - Meetup
Do you live in Charlotte, North Carolina? If so, you might be interested in this event that I’ll be Skyping into.
Shadow is now Adobe Edge Inspect | Adobe Edge Inspect Team Blog
Oh, dear. Adobe Shadow gets a new name and a hefty price tag. Yesterday it was free. Today it is $119.88 per year. It’s useful but it’s not that useful.
So, lazy web, who’s working on an open-source alternative?
Don’t confuse design testing with device testing — Stuff
Andy makes a good point here, point out the difference between device testing and design testing:
When I’m designing, it’s incredibly important for me to quickly gain an affinity with how my design feels when I hold it in my hands.
These are not device testing issues, they are design questions and there’s a huge difference between how an interface feels to use on a smartphone size display and whether the HTML, CSS and Javascript actually works on any particular make or model.
User Experience Euphemisms | 90 Percent of Everything
Funny because it’s true.
Open device labs
It seems like there’s been a lot of activity lately around the idea of open device labs and I’ve been doing my best to keep track of it all.
There are communal device labs springing up all over the place: Berlin, Cape Town, Helsinki, Amsterdam and soon Washington DC. Here’s a list of most of them.
If you’re running an open device lab, or hoping to set one up, be sure to register at Lab Up, a site that aims to pool resources and hopefully get some device manufacturers to distribute their wares. There’s also a mailing list for open device labs. Sign up if you have or want a communal device lab. Sharing is caring.
Finally, there’s an article on Smashing Magazine that goes into great detail on every aspect of setting up and running a communal collection of devices. If you’ve been thinking about starting an open device lab in your area, now is the time. Do it.
Establishing An Open Device Lab | Smashing Mobile
A great article that looks at everything you need to know to set up a communal device lab in your town.
Kev aka Lomokev- Brighton street photographer: YouTube
A nice little profile of local Brighton photographer extraordinaire, Lomokev.