Here’s a quick and easy update. I tend to think of frames in animation and rarely do I think of milliseconds. I’m going to make a var called fps and it will be used to calculate our animation rate. interactive physics animations via javascript & canvas | 09. $(function () { var canvas, [...]
I saw this script back when David put it out there and was very impressed, but totally forgot where I’d seen it. Working lots with canvas and imageData recently and have been trying to remember where I’d seen this awesome experiment using it, I wanted to shout it. And now he’s linking to Ben Keens [...]
Thus far, we’ve been doing lot of setup and it hasn’t been very visually exciting. Now we start the fun stuff! Adding motion! Before we just has a draw function, but now we’ll add a function that will control the animations and we’ll also need a way to execute code repeatedly over a period of [...]
Here’s an interesting rendering I found when I was playing with drawing multiple dots. interactive physics animations via javascript & canvas | 07 B. $(function () { var canvas, context, width, height, x, y, radius = 25, clickX, clickY, drag = false; var total_dots = 25; [...]
Great series exploring and discussing responsive web design and how it relates to images. We can’t very well expect mobile users to load our big images meant for large screens, or our desktop users to scale up small images meant for mobile users (only if all those shows were correct and we could just say [...]
This step we’ll add a variable to hold the total number of dots we want to create and use it in our for loop that creates the dots. We’ll also give the dots a little more randomness by varying the size with a radius value. interactive physics animations via javascript & canvas | 07. $(function [...]
Here’s a great article about responsive web design, mobile first, responsive images and other server side components to keep in mind when thinking about making sites that are easily and quickly viewable on any device (today and tomorrow). Link: LukeW | Multi-Device Web Design: An Evolution – http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1436 from Luke Wroblewski.
Here we’re going to get more into the interactive programming on these dots. We started with one dot that was draggable. This update applies a drag/drop code to each dot object with some logic to keep track of which dot is being dragged. This is quite a bit different than accomplishing the same thing in [...]
Pears is an open source WordPress theme by Dan Cederholm (simplebits), enabling people like us to get your own pattern library up and running quickly. Collect, test, and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS & HTML. I’ve customized pears. I’ve forked it, adding support for coding in LESS as well as code highlighting! The [...]
Here is my collection of notes from attending An Event Apart Atlanta 2012. As I took notes, I had the thought that I’d be sharing them with co-workers and that it’d be easiest to just publish them here. I hope they are useful to someone else out there who didn’t take notes on something or [...]
Basecamp announces that it’s new version will not support old browsers! They will of course continue to support them in their “classic” version. But this is good news and as more implement this type of policy the internet will be happy. It used to be one of the biggest pains of web development. Juggling different [...]
What are “standards” coming to? Who’s guilty? Apple and Chrome: They’re supporting vendor prefixed properties like they’re a standard part of development. Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer: They should have been on the ball more. Need to push their evangelism further. Teach developers that it’s not exclusively -webkit to style elements. All the browsers: experimental [...]
Ethan Marcotte has become the father of Responsive Web Design and spent this whole day focused on principles, techniques, gotchas, examples, … all about building and how to build responsive sites. With a sprinkle of mobile first. For Ethan, it all started with this article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/ Think of architecture, the whole design phase is established [...]
Senseless waste of asterisks… Avis used an asterisk to denote optional fields. This means that there is a lot of baggage that comes with an asterixk. Somewhere this symbol got meaning, it’s not in the bible! We can control when something goes from unintuitive to intuitive. A design is intuitive (although technically and grammatically speaking [...]
The iPhone changed our industry in 2007: first mobile to have a desktop class web browser and it made people start using their mobile phones as computers! All apps other than apple provided ones were web browser apps. Most of the first apps were branded web browsers. No real difference between using mobile site or [...]
MASS MEDIA (in waves) Print, Recordings, Cinema, Radio, Television, Internet, Mobile Mobile is the new Mass Media It certainly is mass and massive. More mobile devices (by far) every day than babies born on the planet. Mobile devices are eating into our personal computing shares. New waves of mobile media eat all previous media waves. [...]
Mobile and touch should be revolutionizing design and user experience. We don’t want to touch a tiny link or button. Back button is just stupid. Fitz’s Law, make things fat proximal targets for easy touching. People are lazy, let’s as designers LET people be lazy! Maybe even use the whole screen as your control. Eliminate [...]
Grep to for analyze css. CSS duplication is a web-wide problem. Started helping facebook optimize thier site and they had 1.9MB of css loading. The same color showing up hundreds of times. Many many color statements and declarations. !important declarations get dangerous. Sites found to have over 500 !important declarations! float is a serious problem [...]
I'm Evan Mullins. I'm a web designer and am very interested in the intersection of art & technology, user experience, and interactive design. I like contributing to make the web incrementally a better place. I love simultaneously solving problems & making things aesthetically brilliant. circlecube is my interactive design site chock full of tutorials, critiques, techniques, technologies, ramblings and a playground of experiments. Welcome to it!
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