A Style Guide Guide | elyse holladay. At my job, I’m one of two designers. My coworker is an incredibly talented designer, but comes from an agency background, and doesn’t code. We are rebooting our company’s existing app with all-new design and functionality. He’s been working on some excellent concepts for it, and we are almost ready to think about visuals. With a small dev team in house supplemented by off-shore teams, and an immense number of sections to build, I want us to work more off of some concept screens, a style/assets guide, and modular sections that we can reuse.
Detailed wireframes of every screen will be too difficult to continually update as we change our requirements constantly. We also have to consider that many of our target users will be on non-3G enabled iPads, so mobile performance and touch affordances are key factors. For those of you that attended AEA Austin, or probably any of the other AEAs, much of this was discussed there. Style Guide Guidelines For designing responsively… For user experience… Scotland - Brainsmart. Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China.
Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now. 16 January 2012Last updated at 08:50 Last week we asked readers for their predictions of life in 100 years time. Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900, many of you wrote in with your vision of the world in 2112. Many of the "strange, almost impossible" predictions made by Watkins came true. Here is what futurologists Ian Pearson (IP) and Patrick Tucker (PT) think of your ideas. 1. Oceans will be extensively farmed and not just for fish (Jim 300) IP: Likelihood 10/10. PT: Good chance. 2. IP: Likelihood 10/10. PT: Good chance. 3. IP: Likelihood 9/10. PT: Good chance. 4. IP: Likelihood 8/10. PT: Good chance. Continue reading the main story More readers' predictions 5.
IP: Likelihood 8/10. PT: Pretty close. 6. IP: Likelihood 8/10. PT: Great try! 7. Will deserts become tropical forests? IP: Likelihood 10/10. 8. PT: Good chance. IP: Likelihood: 7/10. 9. IP: Likelihood 10/10. 10. IP: Likelihood 8/10. 11. IP: Likelihood 8/10. 12. 13. 14. 15. A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design. So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactions in the video which I'm a little skeptical of, given that I've actually tried them and the animators presumably haven't. But that's not my problem with the video. My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from an interaction perspective, is not visionary.
This matters, because visions matter. This little rant isn't going to lay out any grand vision or anything. Before we think about how we should interact with our Tools Of The Future, let's consider what a tool is in the first place. I like this definition: A tool addresses human needs by amplifying human capabilities. That is, a tool converts what we can do into what we want to do.
That's right! And that's great! Launches $1 Million Integration Fund. We just announced our $1 million MailChimp Integration Fund. It’s sort of inspired by Ycombinator, except there’s no equity involved. We basically want to help small startups with small, paying projects. Projects that involve integrating their apps with the MailChimp API. If you’ve got an idea for integrating with MailChimp (along with all these other great apps), you can fill out this online application.
Here’s the story behind the Integration Fund… There are two questions people ask me all the time, and I always surprise them with my answers. First, they bring up our recent growth spurt, and they ask what our "silver bullet" was. Second, people ask me how/where we got our funding. Start small, fund yourself with paying projects, and build up a strong API.
In fact, we’ve been practicing this approach for a while now without even realizing it. Just recently we figured, "Why not turn this into an official fund, and make it a process? " BBC Internet Blog: Redesigning the Radio 1 and 1Xtra User Experience online. 1000 novels everyone must read: Science Fiction & Fantasy (part one) The best science fiction books. Turn autoplay off Edition: <span><a href=" Sign in Beta About us Today's paper Subscribe Custom Search The best science fiction books We asked for suggestions of your favourite science fiction books. Theguardian.com, Books Culture More data More tables Find the latest jobs in your sector: Browse all jobs Hot topics © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Send to a friend Your IP address will be logged Share Short link for this page: Contact us Contact the Books teambooks@theguardian.com Report errors or inaccuracies: userhelp@theguardian.com Letters for publication should be sent to: letters@theguardian.com Close.
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In six hours, the back-end operation, which was running off a single machine in Los Angeles, was completely overwhelmed. Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger knew immediately that they had to rework everything, and fast — especially if they were to be ready for the onslaught of weekend photos. Today, just six months later, Instagram's nearly three million users are regularly sharing north of four to five photos a second each weekend — Valentine's Day usage peaked at six photo uploads per second. Avoiding Catastrophe Friends in High Places. Books Everyone Should Read - Google Docs.