Dec 04 2008
John Gruber in his guidepost to sweet iPhone like UI design gives us a great quote for simplicity and focus:
Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.
Keywords: least and polish.
Read the complete post here
Dec 02 2008
Via Russ at Maxdesign a short and sweet window into the minimalist doctype identifier from Dustin Diaz, a Google user interface engineer.
His words: At Google, we have this obsession with byte size. And by byte size, any “lack-therof” the better. Therefore the doctype you will find on most Google webpages while still triggering the browser into “standards mode” is as simple as you see below:
<!doctype html>
It’s only a short post so read it here.
Nov 14 2008
Simplicity is my favourite. Matt Williams at govtech.com describes a new breed of US State Government portals.
For example - “…it’s important for IT shops to foster a “culture of continual improvement” for their Web space, where changes are made in months instead of years.”
Read Matt’s full article here
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