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Web design on mobile devices
I am lucky enough to be in a job where I have time to work out how to adapt web design to new technologies. The mobile web isn’t exactly new, although since the advent of the iPhone it has started to look a lot nicer. Gone are the days of WAP and horrible looking mobile pages, these days mobile pages on devices like iPhone and Android based phones can look just as good if not even better than regular web pages, with a host of JavaScript animations and CSS3 styles to play around with to get the most out of the mobile space.
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Thoughts on HTML5
There is a new war raging in the tech world, in one corner the newcomer, the lean mean web standards machine, HTML 5. In the other the more experienced older, hungrier opponent Flash. Recently Steve Jobs, CEO at Apple, jumped in the ring declaring his support for HTML 5 while pointing and sneering at Flash, throwing slurs at the other corner with his enlightening ‘Thoughts on Flash‘ article posted on Apple’s website, slowly followed by a showcase of what HTML 5 can do. It is a fight to the death, Apple vs Adobe, HTML vs Flash, let’s get ready to rumble!
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Learn more and use less
I saw a similar line in a post I read recently and it has echoed in my thoughts ever since. More and more clients are asking me to simplify their brands and designs recently, and if they ask for the opposite I try to educate and convert them to the minimalist approach during the creative stage of a project. It’s something I have often had to fight for in the various design teams I have been a part of, but I have always seen the value in getting rid of the unnecessary and irrelevant, and luckily for me it has been difficult to argue with the reasoning that something is irrelevant, redundant and adds no value to a page or design.
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Argos “Happy” with new look
Argos take the concept of shopping and turn it upside down. To quote Michael McIntyre, watch the video here, a well known UK stand up comedian, they take the goods and hide them away from you, force you to find the secret code for the product in their huge laminated catalogue, perform your own stock check, then play the most depressing game of Bingo, where the prize is something you’ve already paid for. Back on subject, They have introduced their new logo along with a new website design that was long overdue. Read the full article »