I just came off stage from my talk at the Microsoft Edge Web Summit and I wanted to share the deck with you. The talk was live-streamed, but I will post a video link as soon as it is up. Update: The video is now online. You can also view it below.
Dispatches From The Internets
Slides from my talk at #msEdgeSummit
Lessons Learned from Atari
In watching Atari: Game Over, I couldn’t help but see all of the parallels between the early video game industry and the web design industry. The boys’ club… Engineers as rockstars… It’s a tale of a meteoric commercial rise followed by a swift and dismal collapse.
Design Consistency for the Responsive Web
This is a fantastic presentation from Patty Toland (of Filament Group), given at the Smashing Conference in Santa Monica.
ESPN Launches A Big Redesign For Its Web Versions
ESPN launched its responsive site. I still need to tuck into it, but here’s a little background as to why:
In January, 61 percent of ESPN’s roughly 94 million users in the United States were viewing content exclusively on mobile devices, with a good chunk of that viewing content on its mobile web version. For a massive company like Disney trying to make a shift to mobile like any other content-driven company, a test of a new mobile web strategy for a large property like ESPN is critical.
Testing “new” tech isn’t really a new thing for ESPN. Those of you who have been on the web a while might remember it being one of the first really big sites to embrace CSS and web standards, back in 2003.
Why You Should Care About Email Design
Coding HTML emails is one of those necessary evils, but Ted Goas offers some helpful advice and links in this post.
This is an open letter to designers and developers who’d rather not work on email.
Collected Reactions to //build/
I may work for Microsoft, but I don’t know everything that’s going on across the company. It’s big and I don’t have that kind of time.
Microsoft Edge is the browser for Windows 10
And then it was revealed:
Windows["Microsoft Edge"] = new Browser();I gotta believe the origins of the name go back to IE8’s “version targeting” scheme. Remember this?
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />Lies, Damn Lies, and JavaScript
Late last week I stumbled on a video from Graeme Pyle that exposed a UX lie in the First National Bank of South Africa.
Shaper_pmp comments on Everyone has JavaScript, right?
A snarky, clever backhanded rant against the JavaScript-only crowd. Good for a chuckle:
They aren’t really on your site to read your article or check what time their train leaves - they’re really there to marvel at your buttery-smooth, hardware-accelerated 60fps animations and 1337 client-side javascript skillz that mean you can browse the entire site without ever once touching the server after the first page-load… just as long as you don’t mind that first page-load being 3MB in size, crapping out on unreliable mobile connections and taking whole seconds between DOM-ready and the UI actually appearing.
Does responsive web design make you more money?
Yes. Yes it does. Some great stats in here including this gem:
O’Neill Clothing saw perhaps the most impressive increases after their conversion to mobile-ready. Transactions went up 112.50% on iPhones and 333.33% on Android. Conversions rang in at 65.71% on the iPhone and 407.32% on Android. Total revenue cleared 101.25% on iPhone and 591.42% on Android.
Wow.