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The post is in Swedish, but run it through Google Translate. Basically they did an A/B test between a carousel feature area and a non-carousel feature area. The carousel version only got a 1.96% interaction rate, while the non-carousel version got a 43.03% interaction rate. I’d say those …
Last year, Guy Podjarny ran tests on hundreds of responsive sites on Mediaqueri.es and found that a full 86% of responsive sites send about the same hefty payload to small screens as they do to large screens. In other words, mobile users are downloading desktop-sized sites. Not good. He ran the …
I had the great opportunity to go over to Freiburg, Germany at speak at the first SmashingConf. While I was there I sat down for an interview. A lot of things have changed in just a few months!
Great post looking into Amazon’s mega-menu dropdown, which shows sub-navigation items to the right of the parent category. Lots of insight and algebra around mouse cursor movement, hover state gotchas and more. Lately there’s been a lot of talk about considering touch across the …
Those clever cats across the pond all got together for a day-long conference all about responsive design. The audio is out now! I know what I’m listening to today.
Noah Stokes shared this sentiment on Twitter yesterday: I feel like responsive design has sucked the soul out of website design. Everything is boxes and grids. Where has the creativity gone? His follow up post explains how responsive design is resulting in soulless design. It sparked Jay Fanelli …
Brad and Dave and I were sitting around after InControl talking about design patterns that hadn’t been explored as much. Dave mentioned “Search with Filters” as an example. There can be quite a lot of UI involved in a search filter, so you have the challenge of displaying that …
This is pretty much the coolest thing ever. Illustrator Nozzman took my Death to Bullshit talk and illustrated it. It’s beautiful!
Theresa Neil posted some slides rounding up some navigation patterns for retail mobile sites. Theresa made the amazing Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, which is a fantastic resource and was insanely helpful for me when I started making the responsive pattern library. But I was a bit bummed when I …
I’m really really really excited for Artifact Conf. I’m as excited as I was for the first BDConf. Here’s why. Before the first Breaking Conference, a lot of ridiculously smart people thinking about a lot of important things regarding the mobile web, but the ideas were scattered …
I am a web designer, speaker, writer, consultant, musician, and artist in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. Married to the lovely @minifrost and @ziggyfrost is my dog. http://www.bradfrostweb.com
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