Mark-Up

Nathan Smith has launched 960.gs, a very promising framework and design toolset for layout using CSS. Besides a great foundation of code for implementing a flexible grid system, he’s created accompanying templates for sketching preliminary designs on paper and wireframing detailed designs in Visio, OmniGraffle, Fireworks, and/or Photoshop. As with any Nathan Smith endeavor, this […]

My friend and co-worker Garrett Dimon recently relaunched his eponymous blog. The results are fantastic. Garrett cites the work of Edward Tufte as his inspiration to provide visually compelling examples when writing about web design, technology, and other usability topics. The new layout is completely clutter-free, focusing completely on the topic at hand. His simple […]

Here are the links I referred to in the presentation this evening.

Henrik Olson’s “Balancing fidelity in prototyping”
Dan Brown’s “Representing Data in Wireframes”
Garrett Dimon’s “Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development”
Lots more on my del.icio.us feed on prototyping

I’ll try to have the deck posted by this Sunday. As promised, here’s the PDF of the deck […]

Branching and tagging are very basic and common practices in software development, but much less common in web site development. It’s hard to stress enough the benefit of having your web site under source control and being able to take advantage of all these capabilities.