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We've got a couple nav icons out there, the three lines and the arrow. I prefer the three lines but I've also seen that it's not a common character. I've even use a two line icon (the equals sign) so it wouldn't need to be an image. An icon font is a good way to get around this, but is the three stripe the best icon for a menu? It's also used in browser apps for the settings button, so then you get the same icon in the same space, although if they serve the same function then perhaps (although it looks odd) this could be seen as a good thing, no? What do you think?

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Adactio: Journal—Navicon
Three lines.

Usability consistency is needed in the wordPress community. Plugins and themes should both be as usable as wordpress is. The best way to make things usable is to do REAL usability testing with REAL people. Don't worry about what's supposed to be usable. See what ACTUALLY works.

Code is poetry. So should be your user’s experience.

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Help Us Help WordPress | Smashing WordPress
Learn how to improve the WordPress user experience with some practical usability wisdom.

It's responsive Web Design on steroids. Imagine being able to design a site that reacts to the user, their location, the time of day, the traffic. We could deduce and infer many things about a user as they view a site and it would be nice to see the builders of the web embrace catering to users and their needs/experience with more than just layout.

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Reactive web design | Opinion | .net magazine
Dan Donald argues that responsive web design is only scratching the surface of how sites can adapt to meet their users’ requirements

Want to make a pie chart or an animated clock? Here's how with css animations.

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CSS Pie Timer | CSS-Tricks
Hugo Giraudel shares how he made a "pie timer" in CSS. In his words: It's basically a piece of pie getting bigger and bigger to become a whole circle.

The web industry is so new and so changing it is important to stay current, but sometimes staying current can take up more time than actually working! Here are some good ways to efficiently keep up.

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The Art Of Staying Up To Date | Smashing Magazine
An important part of our job is staying up to date. Technologies don't really change that fast — HTML5 and CSS3 take a long time to be specified and implemented. But the ideas surrounding these techno…

I've been a huge fan of Thematic and it's great to see the code development move to github to take advantage of the community of developers that will help in making it better and keeping it from being stagnant! This goes a long way in removing barriers from those that are interested in helping. I hope to help make it better too.

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Thematic Development Moves to Github
Visually, the Github website makes me feel like we're not coding in the dark ages any more, I personally find the git fork and pull idea more intuitive and inclusive, but the biggest benefit (in my so…

Contents and its small team of advisors have devised three simple rules customer-content-driven services and apps should follow to respect and protect our content:

Treat our data like it matters. Keep it secure and protect our privacy, of course—but also maintain serious backups and respect our choice to delete any information we’ve contributed.
No upload without download. Build in export capabilities from day one.
If you close a system, support data rescue. Provide one financial quarter’s notice between announcing the shutdown and destroying any user-contributed content, public or private, and offer data export during this period. And beyond that three months? Make user-contributed content available for media-cost purchase for one year after shutdown.

I strongly support these standards, spread the word and the movement!

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Proposed standards for the care and feeding of user generated content – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
THIS MORNING Contents Magazine launched the beginning of something both good and important: a set of guidelines that could lead to a safer world for user-created content. Contents believes (and I agre…

Time Lapse Video + Space Station

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Watch: An Awesome Time-Lapse Video Of Space Station Images
This lush time-lapse video of the nighttime view from NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) has been making the rounds on the interwebs, compelling grown men to gee-whiz and holy-crap all over them…