The Devil's Kitchen Design

As someone who has used many applications across the entire spectrum of computing tasks, I maintain a healthy interest in user interface design—especially as it has applications to my real world job in which, surprise surprise, I am currently tasked with overhauling the entire user interface of our product range.

As such, I found this article to be particularly useful in outlining the principles involved in establishing good practice throughout application design...

As some people will know, your humble Devil recently got married to fellow blogger Bella Gerens. For various reasons, speed was of the essence and the budget was rather restricted. As such, when we got married in Cyprus, we had no wedding rings.

A such, I am very pleased that Tungsten Rings Online sought me out and offered me two rings for a modest exchange...

For those of us who design websites with Accessibility in mind, the question of fluidity—that is, the resizing of the site to accommodate differing screen resolutions—is a vexing question.

Should we design for a fixed width? Or should we design for flexible widths, or a totally fluid width? And if we do a fluid with, how do we ensure that the site maintains its look and feel at different screen resolutions and, indeed, at different text sizes?

Via Daring Fireball, I have found this rather excellent article on the compliance modes of IE8.

If you’re a web developer, you’ll already know that Internet Explorer 8 (Final) was released to the public recently, and with it comes the “X-UA-Compatible” header, a mechanic that the IE Team devised as their way of “not breaking the Web”.

Uh-oh. This sounds like another Microsoft (M$, in developer parlance) hash-up...