Lesenswertes vom 22.09.2011 – Responsive Web Design

Hier die spannendsten Links zum Thema Response Web Design.

Responsive Web Design | A List Apart
In diesem Artikel stellt Ethan erstmals das Konzept vor.
Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It | Smashing Magazine
"But responsive Web design is not only about adjustable screen resolutions and automatically resizable images, but rather about a whole new way of thinking about design. Let’s talk about all of these features, plus additional ideas in the making."
21 top tools for responsive web design | .net magazine
"To get started with building a responsive site, having a strong toolkit can make a world of difference. Here Denise Jacobs rounds up 21 great tools to aid the process of making your sites responsive."
Thoughts On Developing A Responsive Design Workflow | Van SEO Design
"Print design has the physical constraint of the canvas. The format is fixed. The situation is different on the web. We can’t know in advance exactly how someone will view our sites. We don’t have a fixed canvas. We need to create websites with the ability to adapt and respond."
Media Queries
"…a collection of sites using media queries."
A Book Apart, Responsive Web Design
…und last but not least das Buch von Ethan zu dem Thema.

Lesenswertes vom 08.09.2011 – Esslinger, Ives und Jobs

Noch mal zwei ganz nette Artikel rund ums Thema Apple und Steve Jobs.

Apple designer Jonathan Ive enters a new era | LA Times
"The synergy between 'Jony' Ive and Steve Jobs set into motion a decade of hits from the iPod to the iPad. Now Apple will be counting on Ive to deliver breakthrough designs without much input from Jobs."
Apple-Designer Esslinger: "Er führt ehrlich" | ZEIT ONLINE
"Der legendäre Apple-Designer Hartmut Esslinger über seine Beziehung zu Steve Jobs und den Plan, der die Kultmarke einst vor dem Scheitern rettete."

Hier ein paar der netten Artikel, die ich in den letzten Tagen über Steve Jobs und Apple gelesen habe.

How Jobs made Apple fit for the future – FT.com
To discover the useful lessons of Mr Jobs’s managerial legacy, it is worth depersonalising the company he has built. For instance, Apple is not really one company, but three very different organisations lashed together and devastatingly fit for purpose.
Steve Jobs: America’s Greatest Failure – Nick Schulz | National Review Online
Lots of digital ink will be spilled about Jobs in the coming days, most of it focusing on his truly marvelous successes. It’s better to focus on his failures. […] I don’t mean learn from their mistakes. I mean learn from their abject, humiliating, bonehead, epic fails.
The Steve Jobs Difference | vanderwal.net
I have had the fortune of chatting with people at Apple in the cafe, being invited to speak to them, and pulled aside at events by a couple groups at Apple to "chat about some things" that lasted a few hours. These glimpses inside left me in greater awe of not only Apple and its very different and secret way of doing things, but of Jobs himself.

Mobile websites, management, and Long Tail content | Bob Johnson’s Blog
At least 50 percent of the content on higher education websites […] is of little importance to most of the people using that site. […] Nobody is going to create a truly friendly mobile web environment if they try to convert all their present website content to a "mobile friendly" status.
On Mobile Context | Cloud Four
The question of mobile context has plagued me. In January 2009, I wrote about the “On the Go” Myth?. Therefore, it doesn’t surprise me to see very smart people grappling with mobile context and coming to the conclusion that “mobile context has been overblown.
So given my previous doubts about mobile context, you’d think I would find it easy to agree with the current meme that mobile context doesn’t exist. And yet when I read posts and tweets that argue that there is no mobile web, I find myself disagreeing.

Creating Gesture Guidelines for Tablets, Part 1 | UX Booth
The tablet device market is growing rapidly, with the likes of Samsung, HP and RIM attempting to topple the iPad’s dominance. Yet, with sales expected to top 140 million in 2014, there are no guidelines for gestural tablet interaction that span both applications and platforms.
Why Mobile Design Should Never Be an Afterthought
As the web evolved over the years, companies pursued a basic mobile strategy that could be summed up as follows: Cram all the content you can onto a website, and then adapt it for mobile use by lopping off a few pieces. Trimming down content to fit on a smaller screen may have made the presentation more “mobile friendly,” but it didn’t really focus on what mobile users wanted, and how to truly engage them.
The Six Key Mobile App Metrics you need to be tracking
As the number of consumers using mobile applications steadily rises, the need to collect accurate metrics from them is increasingly important. Unfortunately, many of the methods used to measure apps are taken from web analytics.

6 tips to create better one-page websites
“One-page websites are hot and popular — no doubt about that. But they aren’t for everyone or every business. It’s easy to want one because they’re popular; and if done correctly, yours could be a hit. [...] There are always certain things you have to follow through on when making any website, but the points below are especially critical to single-page websites.”
50+ PSD UI Web design elements
“Below are more than 50 free UI element packs from a variety of designers. Buttons, form elements, media players, and similar stock elements are the most popular, though there are other elements included also. And as a bonus, there are over half a dozen premium element packs at the end. Enjoy!”