Dark Ages of the Web
Notes on the old internet, its design and frontend.
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Basil: Secret Santa as a Service | Trys Mudford
Trys writes up the process—and the tech (JAM)stack—he used to build basil.christmas.
HTML periodical table (built with CSS grid)
This is a nifty visualisation by Hui Jing. It’s really handy to have elements categorised like this:
- Root elements
- Scripting
- Interactive elements
- Document metadata
- Edits
- Tabular data
- Grouping content
- Embedded content
- Forms
- Sections
- Text-level semantics
Table Design Patterns On The Web — Smashing Magazine
Hui Jing runs through a whole bunch of options for displaying responsive tables, some of them using just CSS, some of them using a smidgen of JavaScript. There are some really clever techniques in here.
Elemental haiku
An ode for every element in the periodic table, in the form of a haiku.
Home - Memory of Mankind
A time capsule for the long now. Laser-etched ceramic tablets in an Austrian salt mine carry memories of our civilisation in three categories: news editorials, scientific works, and personal stories.
You can contribute a personal story, your favorite poem, or newspaper articles which describe our problems, visions or our daily life.
Tokens that mark the location of the site are also being distributed across the planet.
Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
If you must add a rich text editor to an interface, this open source offering from Basecamp looks good.
Colour Wheels, Charts, and Tables Through History – The Public Domain Review
These are beautiful!
Featured below is a chronology of various attempts through the last four centuries to visually organise and make sense of colour.
Cancelling Requests with Abortable Fetch
This is a really good use-case for cancelling fetch requests: making API calls while autocompleting in search.
Why Suffolk Libraries chose to build their own self-service app.
It’s so great to see the initial UX work that James and I prototyped in a design sprint come to fruition in the form of a progressive web app!
In the case of this web-app, if the tablets go offline, they will still store all the transactions that are made by customers. Once the tablet comes back online, it will sync it back up to the server. That is, essentially, what a Progressive Web App is — a kind of a website with a few more security and, most importantly, offline features.
Twenty Eighteen Preparation: Becoming an Endless Newbie - Airbag Industries
In the past, when I brushed off new advances or updates to technology and processes I preferred to stick with a simple path of “it still works fine,” but in doing so I realize now that I have l lost a lot beginning with the ability to function with current best practices in certain areas of my skill sets and the degradation a few projects, especially Airbag.
A Responsive Accessible Table | Adrian Roselli
Following on from Richard’s article, here’s a deep dive into making HTML tables that are accessible and responsive.
Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At · An A List Apart Article
An extract from Richard’s excellent book, this is a deep dive into styling tables for the web (featuring some CSS I had never even heard of).
Tables can be beautiful but they are not works of art. Instead of painting and decorating them, design tables for your reader.
(It also contains a splendid use of the term “crawl bar.”)
The Uncomfortable - a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects
These are ingenious. I think the chain fork is my favourite, but the uncomfortable broom is pretty great too.
Then there’s the inflatable doorknob.
Simple, semantic and responsive tables (part II) – Design Today – Wouter Hillen
This uses generated content in CSS to make the aria-label attributes visible on small screens—clever!
Psiu Puxa Wallpapers
Yummy wallpapers for your desktop, tablet, and phone, from NASA and ESA.
Research with blind users on mobile devices | Accessibility
Some interesting outcomes from testing gov.uk with blind users of touchscreen devices:
Rather than reading out the hierarchy of the page, some of the users navigated by moving their finger around to ‘discover’ content.
This was really interesting - traditionally good structure for screen readers is about order and hierarchy. But for these users, the physical placement on the screen was also really important (just as it is for sighted users).
Responsive Product Comparison Tables - daverupert.com
Dave explains the thinking behind his responsive table pattern I linked to a while back. He’s at pains to point out that you should always make sure a pre-made pattern is right for you instead of just deploying it no-questions-asked:
Using prefabricated, road tested solutions from Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, Google’s Material Design, Twitter’s Bootstrap, and Brad Frost’s Responsive Patterns is always a good place to start, but don’t settle there. My biggest advice would be to turn off the 27” display and use your sites and projects on your phone, there’s lots of low hanging fruit that could give way to new patterns, tailor-suited to your content.
Responsive Product Comparison Table
Here’s a nice little pattern from Dave—showing data tables one column at a time on smaller screens.
The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens | New Republic
A fascinating insight into some of Tumblr’s most popular accounts:
Some posts get more than a million notes—imagine a joke whispered in biology class getting a laugh from a city the size of San Francisco.
It’ll be a real shame when Tumblr disappears.
That’s “when”, not “if”. Remember:
In 2013, Yahoo bought Tumblr.