Tag: Sites

Boston Globe Responsive Process Interview w Scott Jehl

Posted on by Evan Mullins

Some good insight into the thought process behind the "famous" responsive web (re)design for the Boston Globe. I think the discussions about the fallbacks and technical challenges very important. Sites should be optimized to have a low overhead and build with the worst oldest devices in mind as well as the latest and best.

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Scott Jehl on the responsive Boston Globe site | Interview | .net magazine
Opera’s Bruce Lawson talks to Scott Jehl of The Filament Group about developing the highly-regarded and responsive website for The Boston Globe

Mobile Specific Sites Hurt

Posted on by Evan Mullins

I've said it before I don't want a different experience on mobile vs desktop. I always am scrolling around a mobile version of a site to find the link to get to the full site because whoever designed it deemed that I as a mobile user wouldn't appreciate the functionality the site brought. I still agree with the responses to Jakob Nielson's recent publication that we should have mobile versions of our sites. I agree whole-heartedly with the responses from smashing magazine here and Josh Clark and many others. It's encouraging to see the flood of people coming out to contradict the uncharacteristically unwise council from this UX giant. Here Bruce Lawsen gives a great recap of the whole story and the points argued by both sides.

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Why We Shouldn't Make Separate Mobile Websites | Smashing Magazine
There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobile device so fundamentally…

Fancy Scrolling Sites

Posted on by Evan Mullins

Fancy Scrolling Sites from CSS-Tricks

I’m really liking the creativity on some of these examples:
http://sf-langstrasse.hvo.ch/page/ (I really like the option to do day vs night images)
and
http://www.newzealand.com/us/

Good idea to include screencasts for future reference too Chris!

There’s another one we’ve been working on at the Jones Group as well. I should be posting about it shortly.