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Responsive Inspiration
Responsive Design Sites: Higher Ed, Libraries, Notables is a list of responsive university and library websites created by Eric Rumsey. A nice starting point for research if you’re looking for...
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Favicon Generator – Generate favicon pictures and HTML
Instead of giving you a single favicon.ico file, RealFaviconGenerator generates all the pictures and HTML code you need to get a cool, mobile- and tablet-ready favicon.
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Responsive, retina-ready icons
With the advent of high-density displays (including Apple’s Retina), there has been a scramble in the web design community. Since the creation of the World Wide Web, small and low quality (compared to...
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Flat Design
Windows 8 Flat Menu Skeuomorphism is the design style of making web interfaces look like physical interfaces, such as the book shelves on the Kindle Fire. Flat design is the current trend seen in...
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Responsive Design
The Creative Librarian website at multiple screen-sizes. Responsive design is a method of web design that has been developed in response to the almost infinite number of screen sizes designers are...
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Theme Process Roundup
This is an index of a series of articles I wrote on the process I went through creating the third theme for this site. It was spurred on by the release of WordPress with the new Customizer feature and...
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In preparing a new full-day course on designing university websites, we conducted a range of user studies. In total, we tested 57 higher-education sites with users in the United States, Canada, UK,...
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Library Terms That Users Understand [eScholarship]
This document is intended to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices. It...
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Is Your Responsive Design Working? Google Analytics Will Tell You
Google Analytics has some great multi-device features built in; however, with responsive design, we are really designing for form factors, not for devices. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how...
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Collaborative User Testing: Less Bias, Better Research
I’ve always worked in small product teams that relied on guerrilla user testing. We’d aim to recruit the optimal number of participants for these tests. We’d make sure the demographic reflected our...
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