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Archive: March 2nd, 2015
Productivity Future Vision
Any sufficiently advanced vision piece is indistinguishable from Black Mirror.
Harnessing Flexbox For Today’s Web Apps - Smashing Magazine
More flexbox!
This time it’s a great article by Karen Menezes filled with practical examples showing where you can use flexbox today.
flexbox in 5 minutes
A really handy interactive intro to flexbox. Playing around with the properties and immediately seeing the result is a real help.
Futures of text by Jonathan Libov
This would be better titled “Futures of texting” but it’s an interesting grab-bag of observations. I’ve always felt that SMS has been overlooked as an input mechanism.
(Conversely, I’ve always felt that voice is really over-rated as input mechanism, but under-rated for output.)
Password Masking
A great investigation into the usability benefits of allowing users to fill in their passwords in plain text.
Major caveat: make sure you still offer the ability to mask passwords too.
Google’s experimental new “slow” label could revolutionize how we tackle web performance - Web Performance Today
It looks like Google is going to start explicitly labelling slow sites as such in their search results (much like they recently started explicitly labelling mobile-friendly sites). So far it’s limited to Google’s own properties but it could be expanded.
Personally, I think this is a fair move. If the speed of a site were used to rank sites differently, I think that might be going too far. But giving the user advanced knowledge and leaving the final decision up to them …that feels good.
Well, well, well …look who else is going to be speaking at http://responsiveconf.com/
It’s @Grigs!
Responsive Day Out tickets tomorrow
Tickets for the third and final Responsive Day Out go on sale at 11am tomorrow, Tuesday, March 3rd. Here’s the direct link to the ticket page.
I recommend getting in there pretty sharpish. Tickets are less than a hundred quid, which is a steal considering the amazing line-up of speakers who will be bursting your brain with their knowledge of design, process, CSS, JavaScript, user experience, performance, accessibility, and everything else associated with responsive web design (which, let’s face it, is pretty much everything).
Oh, and that line-up just got even better. The one and only Jason Grigsby will be speaking! If you’ve seen Jason speak before, then you know how fantastic his talks are. If you haven’t seen Jason speak before, you’re in for a real treat. I’m guessing he’ll be dropping knowledge bombs on responsive images. He’s the Jedi master when it comes to that stuff. He’s got a real knack for taking a complex subject and making it understandable …something that could be said of all the other fantastic speakers too.
So set your calendar alarm now. Get your ticket tomorrow morning. And I’ll see you here in Brighton on Friday, June 19th for Responsive Day Out 3: The Final Breakpoint!