Brilliant work by Dudley Storey on how to ensure text is always legible even when the background is unknown. Check out the accompanying CodePen as well.
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Automatic Text Contrast with CSS Blend Modes
Financial Times rolls out ‘cost per hour’ advertising metric
This could change the way we design pages by allowing us to move away from the NASCAR-esque badged web design employed by most major media outlets.
Testing The 12-inch MacBook’s Performance with Windows 10
This was in interesting read from Alex King. My favorite quote?
[I]t’s ironic that in some regards, the new MacBook runs Windows 10 (a prerelease version, at that) better than it runs OS X. But it’s a testament to two things: Apple’s fantastic MacBook hardware, which is forward-thinking yet surprisingly agile; and Microsoft’s excellent Windows software, which entices and excites with its beautiful interface, useful new features, and rock-solid UI transitions.
I have Windows 10 running in a VM. I haven’t tried it as a Bootcamp partition yet, but Alex’s finding are intriguing.
Cortana for all: Microsoft’s plan to put voice recognition behind anything
Cortana has an API! I can’t wait to start playing with this.
The Walled Gardens Of The Web Are Growing
All of this has happened before: Remember the AOL keyword?
Exploring how customer success creates successful products
A new web series “exploring how customer success creates successful products”. Keeping an eye on this one.
Announcing media capture functionality in Microsoft Edge
getUserMedia()
is now in Microsoft Edge!
Practicing Empathy With Teams
I’ve touched on this a bit in my Designing with Empathy presentation: “Empathy is just as important for us to practice as we interact with our team members”. Susan Robertson goes into the topic of empathy building for teams in this great post for A List Apart.
Trainspotting: Firefox 38
Adaptive images & more land in Firefox 38!
Turndown information for PageSpeed Service
This is getting to be a habit: Google is shuttering its PageSpeed service