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We’ve archived all the great links and resources we’ve featured in our Newsletter over the years — scan through here for great lunch time learning and reading!
Week 44 — June 7 2012
Design
- Could this really be the Ultimate Guide to Web Type?
- Oliver Reichtenstein urges us to Sweep the Sleaze and get rid of those ubiquitous Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons.
Development
- A fantastic resource: recordings of screen readers using web page components that do and do not make use of WAI-ARIA.
Understanding the CSS3 transforms matrix.
Big Picture
- Trent Walton on collaboration (or Vulcan mind melding) with your clients.
- Critical reading from Rachel Botsman for anyone thinking about building a collaborative consumption platform.
Better Things for Better Living
- The mechanics and meaning of that ole dial-up modem sound. — listen with your eyes closed, it’s as rich as the taste of any madeleine!
- Cloud will be a computational documentary featuring hackers and media artists in dialogue about code, culture and the future of visualization. To be released later this year.
Week 45 — June 14 2012
Design
- Dieter Rams’ ten principles, from the era of industrial design, can be usefully applied to web design as well.
- Generous write up from Veerle of a presentation she gave on the experimentation phase of a design project. This kind of thing can be extremely hard to articulate, but Veerle really goes the extra mile to explain her process.
Development
- A demonstration of the power of CSS preprocessors (Sass and Less) and explanation of why they are a game changer for front-end development.
- Keen to get your teeth into something new? How about WebGL fundamentals?
Big Picture
- An interesting approach — how to use feature based development to give better quotes.
- What the rise of Depeche Mode teaches us about the rise of digital design.
Better Things for Better Living
Find the time to watch this 35 minute video of John Cleese on creativity — it’s worth it!
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