GSWO Workshop with Sparkbox
Katie, Divya, and the other great designers and developers at Sparkbox run workshops on HTML and CSS for girl scouts. They’ve shared their resources and I might just borrow some of them for Codebar.
Link archive: May 20th, 2015
The Desktop Conundrum - daverupert.com
I can relate 100% to what Dave is saying here:
I’m disenchanted with desktop. That conviction runs so deep, I groan when I see a desktop layout JPEG.
All too often we talk the talk about taking a mobile first approach, but we rarely walk the walk. Most designers and developers still think of the small-screen viewport as the exception, not the norm.
15 Years Ago in ALA: Much Ado About 5K · An A List Apart Blog Post
Zeldman looks back at Stewart Butterfield’s brilliant 5K contest. We need more of that kind of thinking today:
As one group of web makers embraces performance budgets and the eternal principles of progressive enhancement, while another (the majority) worships at the altar of bigger, fatter, slower, the 5K contest reminds us that a byte saved is a follower earned.
Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people - BBC News
The controversial hamburger icon goes mainstream with this story on the BBC News site.
It still amazes me that, despite clear data, many designers cling to the belief that the icon by itself is understandable (or that users will “figure it out eventually”). Why the aversion to having a label for the icon?
Mars Weather
A handy way of quickly finding out how the weather in your area compares to the weather on Mars.