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Client Centric Web Design Archives - Boagworld - Web & Digital Advice. Other than Internet Explorer, what is the most challenging part of your job?

Client Centric Web Design Archives - Boagworld - Web & Digital Advice

Did you answer clients? If so this ebook and podcast are for you. Discover how to keep your clients happy, maintain your own sanity and produce the most effective websites you have ever built. Improve how you communicate with clients Client centric web design is about good communication. Master working together with clients Many web designers exclude the client from the web design process by limiting iterations and opportunities for comment. Get feedback that helps rather than hinders When a client tells you to change the colour or move an element, it does nothing to help. A List Apart Author: Jeffrey Zeldman. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. CSS-Tricks. 13 names every web designer should know. Take any creative field and you’ll find well-known influencers who are responsible for leading the way, either with new interpretations, technical approaches or ideas.

13 names every web designer should know

This is true whether you’re looking at David Bailey in the photography world, or Tracey Emin in fine art. It comes about because some practitioners define a movement or technique, either inventing it, championing it, or otherwise leading a charge towards it. Of course, the world of web design is no different. We’ve got our own champions and leaders, although it’s surprisingly difficult to pick just ten names every web designer should know. Luckily, we live in an age of democratised sharing, with the likes of Facebook and Twitter making it easy to keep up to date with both current and future movers and shakers, so watch these ten and see who they recommend! A quick note of caution before we upset those concerned, these names aren’t ranked or in any specific order! 01. Twitter: twitter.com/malarkey 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. John Allsopp: My life online. TimKadlec.com. This category covers the topic of the Mobile Web. We’ve placed it into its own special category because of the demand and the popularity of browsing the internet on mobile devices.

In this ten minute interview with Ryan Matzner, Lead Strategist at Fueled, an iPhone & Android app development agency based in New York, NY we learn his perspective regarding a recent article he wrote entitled, “Why Web Apps Will Crush Native Apps” for Mashable.com.

This category covers the topic of the Mobile Web. We’ve placed it into its own special category because of the demand and the popularity of browsing the internet on mobile devices

Specifically we learn Ryan’s thoughts on: * Should you build a Native app or a Web App with HTML? * A side by side comparison * Pros and Cons of Native vs. Digital Product Strategy & Design. About. I'm a web designer and developer who is currently a product manager at Shopify.

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Before Shopify, I worked at Yahoo! As part of the team that redesigned and rebuilt the communication suite of products: Mail, Messenger, Calendar, and more. Before that, I freelanced for almost 5 years working with fantastic clients on fun projects doing design, front-end development, and back-end development. Bradfrostweb.com. Come Aboard. You are part of this thing.

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When you go future friendly, you help your own work and you offer an example to others, too. Here are some things you can do. Future-friendliness describes design principles, not specific techniques. Cameron Moll & Tantek Çelik – Design and Coding at the Cutting Edge. A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007.

Cameron Moll & Tantek Çelik – Design and Coding at the Cutting Edge

This session was originally meant to feature Cameron Moll and Douglas Bowman, but due to a last-​​minute change instead featured Cameron Moll and Tantek Çelik. Session description. Stuff & Nonsense, And All That Malarkey. Life at the bleeding edge (of web standards) Search videos for lea verou. Adactio: Jeremy Keith.

Responsive Day Out · Friday, 1 March 2013 · Brighton. Elliot Jay Stocks. Bruce Lawson’s personal site. What does the web platform need next? The web platform has advanced out of all recognition, and continues to evolve at a frankly bewildering pace (I’m paid to keep track of all this stuff, and if I take a fortnight’s holiday I scramble to get back on top of it).

What does the web platform need next?

Four years ago, if you wanted to access your device’s GPS information, you pretty much had to use a native app; now, the W3C Geolocation API is available in all browsers, on most classes of devices. The advancement of what marketing and the press like to call “HTML5″ (but mostly isn’t just HTML5) is closing the gap between the capabilities of native and web.

But it isn’t there yet. In 2011, Joe Hewitt (original Firebug developer and Facebook person) wrote a great blog post called Web Technologies Need an Owner, which I quote here but is worth reading in its entirety: The arrogance of Web evangelists is staggering. Many of their “missing pieces” are actively being worked on in W3C and other standards bodies. Monetisation feels like a big deal to me. Standardista. Blog - this is rachelandrew.co.uk.