Heyoffline.js Go offline/online for demo or Download v1.1 Setup You can install Heyoffline via Bower with bower install Heyoffline or download heyoffline.js and include it the old-fashined way. CoffeeScript new Heyoffline monitorFields: true elements: ['.monitoredFields'] JavaScript Remember that instantiation needs to be done within a load or domready. Options Events Requirements Heyoffline.js is framework-agnostic. Source code All efforts have been made to keep the source as clean and readable as possible. License Heyoffline.js is released under an MIT License, so do with it what you will. Finally, Google Has Come Up With A Predictable, Intuitive Sidebar Navigation Design - Now Please Add It To Everything [Update: Confirmed By Googlers!] What exactly is the deal with slide-out sidebar navigation? Is it a standard Holo thing? Is it not? 3rd-party developers aren't really sure what to do with it, and even Google-made apps are all over the place. Google Earth and Google Shopper were just updated with a new sidebar design, and, well, have you seen them? In order to understand what's so great about the new design, we have to talk about what's so crappy about the old designs. The Old Up Button This thing is called an "Up" button. The design doc for the Up button is right here. If a screen is the topmost one in an app (that is, the app's home), it should not present an Up button.The system Back button is used to navigate, in reverse chronological order, through the history of screens the user has recently worked with. Yeah... that sort of happens, but lately, instead of hiding the Up button at the top level, Google apps (and some third party ones) show an Up button that opens a slide-in navigation panel. The New Up Button
Clue – A fun and easy way to test what people remember on your website. AJAX Send an XMLHttpRequest To a Server Google Glass apps are easy to develop, but brutally difficult to design well Timothy Jordan, developer advocate for Glass, takes a small stage in a large anteroom at Moscone West. “[Glass] is a moonshot about our relationship to technology … technology that’s there when you need it and out of the way when you don’t.” He’s selling the device, but in this crowd, there’s no need. At this, the very first session for the Google Glass track at I/O, the session room seating a couple hundred developers had filled to capacity a half hour before the session started. I can’t stress enough how fascinated these people are with Glass. Jordan’s job for today is to guide those imaginations in the best directions. Jordan runs through a Glass demo — how to turn it on, how to take and share a picture. So far, Google’s Mirror API is the only way to build Glassware. There’s no native API yet for accessing the hardware or working offline, but Jordan says this tool, called the Glass Development Kit, is coming soon. Beyond the tech side, there’s the graphic design, UI, and UX.
Code !t: Yeyy!! My first Pokki is published! I already wrote about what is Pokki how useful it could be. I spent some time thinking, what Pokki can I built that will be useful in my everyday work. I often find myself searching for online tools that do some simple dev related tasks and I thought that it will be great idea to bundle all kind of such tools into one Pokki that stays on my taskbar and is always just a click away from me. What’s included in the first version For the first version and included three tools:Regex tool – very simple regex form that checks for a match or eventually replaces a string into string. The results One of the good things about Pokki is that they give you out of the box analytics about the usage of your app. Next steps … I have already planned some features for the next versions.
Before Hiring a Design Partner, Consider This - Sean Madden by Sean Madden | 9:00 AM May 20, 2013 Design is a service, not a magic spell. There are designers who do it well, and those who do it poorly ; some produce profitable outcomes, and some waste money. More and more companies view design as an important strategic element of their business and are seeking partners to help them understand how it can help. If you're setting out to do so, you'll need to confront uncertainty about how to get the most value from the investment and carefully consider what you're setting out to achieve. Understand your need. Engage constantly. Address your biases. Understand your capacity to act. Successful design outcomes require intentional beginnings, consistent work throughout, and rigorous maintenance following delivery.
Pokki - How To Add / Test Your Game What is Pokki? Pokki enables web developers to create and distribute connected HTML5 desktop applications called Pokkies. - pokki.com Pokki in a nutshell:Pokki is basically a html5 web browser that sit on your toolbar that lets you run all your web apps as desktop app. Think of it as Google Chrome web store on your toolbar and having all those great apps running live on your desktop while you work and play. (If you already have Pokki installed and up and running you can skip steps 1-3) 1: Go and download Pokki (it's free) 2: Run and install it. 3: After you install the program, you should see Pokki icon next the the start menu. 4: Click on the start menu and go to the folder called Pokki and click on Toggle Dev Tools. 5: Now you should see another Pokki icon on the right inside the toolbar and a message. (Skip step 6 if you already have a CS2 ready html5 app) 6: Open up Construct 2 and load your game, then export your file to HTML5 web site. icon-19x19.png icon-29x29.png
Testing design: Testing users impressions of a design Design: The estimated time to read this article is 6 minutes It would be wrong to have a series on design methodology without looking at the subject of testing design. One of the fundamental principles behind Headscape’s design approach is to design with data. Design is subjective. What I like you may well hate and vice versa. The normal route for resolving this problem is to focus on what the user wants, rather than what the client or designer thinks is best. Testing the usability of a site is relatively easy. The first step is to know what you want to learn about the aesthetics. Asking users what they think isn’t enough It is not enough to just show users a design and ask them if they like it or not. First, whether they like a design is not the only criteria by which to judge it. Second, when asked what they think users fallback on comments such as “I don’t like the green.” Focus on brand value and personality The question now becomes, how do you test a design against a set of words?
Pokki – Create and Distribute HTML5 Desktop Applications Pokki is an application store and platform that brings rich mobile app experience to your desktop. Pokki Beta now support Window 7, with Windows Vista and XP support coming soon. Pokki enables web developers to create rich, connected mini-desktop applications called Pokkies using the latest web standards HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Pokkies are desktop applications, which are accessible from the taskbar and can deliver real-time notifications. You can download eight great Pokkies including Gmail, Facebook, and Tweeki (our Twitter client) from Pokkies enjoy the advantages of the web, such as always being up-to-date and interoperability with a wide range of web services, with the benefits of the desktop, such as real-time notifications and one click access from the taskbar. When you’re ready to share your creation with the world, simply upload your Pokki through your Developer console and Pokki take care of packaging it. To start building your Pokki:
10 Best Alternatives to Adobe InDesign Toolkits Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing program that can be used to create works of all kinds — books, newspapers, magazines, flyers, brochures, posters and more. Used with another Adobe product, Digital Publishing Suite, it can also be utilized for publishing content adopted for tablet devices. In certain respects, however, it is not the best of its kind: Each of the ten applications described below is superior to it in one way or another. Best Alternatives to Adobe InDesign 1. We look first at another of Adobe's applications. 2. Microsoft Office Publisher comes built into almost every new computer that you buy. 3. Often called Quark for short (the name, incidentally, comes from the subatomic particles of which protons and neutrons are comprised), QuarkXPress is perhaps the best option for the creation of documents with complex layouts because it operates in a WYSIWYG environment. 4. 5. 6. imPRESSion 7. 8. 9. 10. formatpixel Conclusion For More Related Resources