January 2012
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5 Firefox Add-Ons for Increasing Productivity →
October 2011
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News site layout as a Bento box
Very interesting article about how the BBC news site is designed. Writer Tammy Gur says,
I liken the design of a news site to that of the Japanese Bento box. There is a bounding tray and small dishes in a variety of shapes and sizes that can be arranged in different combinations. This is our site design. The food they hold is the changing news content. It is the harmony between the two, the box...
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Mobile design →
Nice article from “A List Apart” about mobile app design. Thought this was an interesting way to categorize user’s mobile behaviors:
“In his book Tapworthy, author Josh Clark focused on three critical mobile behaviors: micro-tasking, “I’m local,” and “I’m bored.” These align pretty well with Google’s breakdown of mobile users into three behavioral groups: urgent now,...