So, a mere three years after my old “life blog” stopped working, I decided to scrap it and start fresh.
Dispatches From The Internets
A Grand Experiment
Prioritizing Devices: Testing And Responsive Web Design
While you should try to support as large a proportion of your audience as possible, your analytics will show that a small group of browsers and devices make up the majority of your traffic, while the rest are a long tail of obscure browsers and devices. Take advantage of this.
Client Feedback On the Creation of the Earth.
Whatever we can do to increase the amount of ground will go a long way toward converting our users from passive consumers into brand evangelists.
Nine Lies We Tell Ourselves About Mobile
Be dismissive of the non-smartphone only if you want to leave 4 billion customers on the table.
Beyond Responsive Workshops this May
A lot fo my work lately has been consulting and working with teams to help them to establish or improve upon their responsive strategies.
Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?
Interesting tech job truth:
The combined global workforces of Groupon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga, Yelp, Pandora, and Zillow is smaller than the number that Circuit City fired in January 2009 when it was liquidated.
Adaptive Design, Empathy & Beating Creative Block
Lately I’ve been doing a few more podcasts, local events, and interviews. Here’s a round-up of a few that posted in the last week or so:
The modern.IE Podcast
Josh Holmes interviewed me about adaptive design, progressive enhancement, and a wide range of other things.
Device-Agnostic
Yet another great argument for progressive enhancement.
Paper Dolls
Jon Hicks came to SXSW in 2005 and made quite an impression on many of us. It’s no surprise, he’s an incredibly nice chap.
The Hampton
For a few years in the late aughts, the place to stay during SXSW Interactive was the Hampton Inn at San Jacinto and 2nd. There were 3 main reasons for this: 1) proximity to the Convention Center, 2) free breakfast, and 3) happy hour and a spacious veranda on which to enjoy it.