Month: September 2011

If I were CEO of a company I'd enforce a three slide rule. If you are going to make a presentation you are allowed three slides (any more needs CEO approval) and so you need to spend your time thinking about what goes onto those slides. 

Treesaver® is a JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS.

Create once, publish everywhere. Our HTML5 app is built with web standards—HTML, CSS and Javascript. Treesaver works on any device that has a web browser.The same design and the same code works on PCs, Macs and Linux desktop computers . . . Apple, Android, and Blackberry smart phones . . . and tablets like iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab.When you make a Treesaver dynamic publication, you skip the hassle and cost of making separate apps for every operating system—and every target device.And now Treesaver offers design consulting, pre-packaged design grids, hosting, the ability to drive content via RSS feeds, and full support services. All building around a new open-source community.

How do you scale CSS for thousands of pages? Object Oriented CSS is an answer. It’s an approach for writing CSS that’s fast, maintainable, and standards-based. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites. Nicole Sullivan first presented it at Web Directions North in Denver and the response has been overwhelming.

Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites.It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.

Baker is a HTML5 ebook famework to publish interactive books & magazines on iPad & iPhone using simply open web standards.

Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design”
Good design is innovativeGood design makes a product usefulGood design is aestheticGood design helps us to understand a productGood design is unobtrusiveGood design is honestGood design is long-lastingGood design is consequent to the last detailGood design is concerned with the environmentGood design is as little design as possible

1 – A compulsion to prove oneself2 – Working harder
3 – Neglecting their needs
4 – Displacement of conflicts
5 – Revision of values
6 – Denial of emerging problems
7 – Withdrawal
8 – Obvious behavioral changes
9 – Depersonalization
10 – Inner emptiness
11 – Depression
12 – Burnout syndrome