Design

∞ jQuery Mobile 1.0

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When we first launched this site back in the summer of 2010, we had a few concept sketches and some very ambitions goals: to create an elegant HTML5-based user interface library for the jQuery community designed to work on all popular mobile platforms. We are built on the strengths of jQuery core and jQuery UI and strive to make mobile development efficient, accessible and maybe even a bit fun.

Adobe contributed quite a lot to the project over the past year.

∞ The Happy List

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You really have to see this to appreciate it. Ellen tells an entire story of what made her happy using only photos. You can see and feel why each particular image made her feel the way she did.

Much more dramatic than writing 1,000 words explaining your week.

∞ Erler Dingbats Unicode Font for free

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For the first time in the entire history of Unicode standard, the full encoding range for dingbats (U + 2700 – U + 27BF) is now covered by a complete, contemporary quality font. Erler Dingbats is a spin-off of the distinguished FF Dingbats 2.0 family, and was designed as a special collaboration between designers Johannes Erler and Henning Skibbe.

∞ World's most expensive photograph

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Michael Zhang:

Titled “Rhein II”, it’s a 1999 photograph by Andreas Gursky showing the Rhine river. Last night it sold for a whopping $4,338,500 at Christie’s.

Shawn King sent this to me tonight. I have to say, I just don’t get it.

∞ Unicode character recognition

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This is a tool to help you find Unicode characters. Finding a specific character whose name you don’t know is cumbersome. On shapecatcher.com, all you need to know is the shape of the character!Draw your character as best you can in the “drawbox”. You can do this by clicking and holding the left mouse button and moving around. Draw as many strokes as you need to, then click “Recognize” to start the recognition.

Very cool.

∞ Sourcebits: Show your design, engineering talent and win a job

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We want to see how talented you are! Sourcebits is giving you the chance to strut your stuff in the most epic job hunt ever. We’re looking for two designers, two engineers and one quality assurance/project lead to help us break in our new San Francisco headquarters, and we only want the best.

Sourcebits is a very talented group of people and it’s nice to see them grow and open a new office. This is a very cool way to recruit some of the talented designers and engineers out there.

∞ Khoi Vinh: On the Grid

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The Color Machine:

We sat down with Khoi Vinh, former Design Director of NYTimes.com to discuss the subject that has made his work most noteworthy: the grid. And in his case, the “g” almost deserves to be capitalized. The result is an illuminating conversation about Khoi’s plans for the future, first interest in the field of design, and even the grid’s complex relationship with emotion.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Khoi.

∞ Graceful degradation

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Smashing Magazine:

Frequently, when I discuss CSS3 with other developers, the issue of stubborn clients comes up. They tell me that even though they personally don’t think a website should look the same in all browsers and they’re eager to try all of these new techniques, their clients insist that their website should look the same, so the developers are stuck with the same Web development techniques that we used five to ten years ago. Their clients just don’t “get” graceful degradation.

When we were doing the redesign for The Loop last summer, I told Phil that I don’t care about old browsers. Modern browsers only.

∞ White in design

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Core77:

Linda O’Keeffe, the former Creative Director of Metropolitan Home magazine, has assembled a photo-heavy tome called BRILLIANT: White in Design that “explores the full spectrum of colors and characteristics inherent in white, exploring how it is used and viewed in art, design, architecture and nature.”

Some beautiful stuff.

∞ The delicious design sandwich

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Jason Gross:

With virtually every website, good UX design can be sectioned into three parts or events: introduction, consumption and reaction. Content is at the core, the meat of what the user is looking for, and on both sides of the content are events that are driven by a well-executed design.

This is what I tried to do with The Loop’s new design. Making a simple design that highlights the content is much more difficult than what I thought it would be.

∞ Web site usability and user experience testing tools

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Usability and user experience testing is vital to creating a successful website, and only more so if it’s an e-commerce website, a complex app or another website for which there’s a definite ROI. And running your own user tests to find out how users are interacting with your website and where problems might arise is completely possible.

Great list of tools. I didn’t know about most of the services and tools on the list.

∞ Boogeyman

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“Light, shadows, depth — all perfect!” Such an impressive photo. [Via Veerie’s blog]

∞ Advertise with tact

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When The Loop relaunched on September 1, it was a completely different site that focused on the content, not advertising or pageviews. It was a major change for Peter and me to stray from the traditional advertising model, but with … Continued

∞ Apple's largest box

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James Stewart writing for the New York Times about Steve Jobs’ accomplishments in retail architecture: In many ways, the retail architecture is simply the largest box in which an Apple product is wrapped, and Mr. Jobs was famously attentive to … Continued