“Andy Budd was in Melbourne as the keynote speaker for the Web Directions UX conference this week. SitePoint’s Matthew Magain spent some time chatting to him about blogging, design, CSS frameworks, careers on the web, usability testing, the future of the Web, and much more.”
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/andy-budd-design-usability-css
Virginia DeBolt shares a tip: Calculate the Specificity of CSS Selectors “Have you ever added a new rule to your CSS stylesheet, but seen no change in the results on the page in the browser window? Maybe the new selector wasn’t specific enough to overrule and existing rule in your stylesheet. Here’s how to mathematically calculate the specific weight of your CSS selectors. The W3C uses mathmatical formulas to determine the weight of any particular style. The more weight a style has, the more specific it is.”
Design Decisions vs. Audience Considerations “looks at how to handle the conflict between what your users want, and what you want them to want. Robin Ragle-Davis considers how upfront audience profiling can reap customer relationship benefits down the line.”
Meryl’s eight-year-old blog promises readers she will jump out of a plane if we raise $5000 worth of prizes to celebrate the blog’s 8th birthday.
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