Produxion

Matt Ward has written a follow-up to the really good article he posted last week, expanding on his thoughts and responding to some of the discussion which has been raised. He talks about the distinction between experimental techniques intended as an educational resource, and commercial resources which encourage bad practice: Yes, I don’t think that (…)

Faruk Ateş on the impracticalities of CSS as a tool for designing icons: During the design phase, being able to tweak the pixel look and dimensions of an icon should be as simple as possible; adjusting many lines of CSS code to do this is not it, especially if you didn’t write the CSS originally. (…)

Matt Ward has written a wonderfully insightful and informed post asking whether some recent CSS experiments are pushing the technology beyond what it was designed for. Each of these experiments takes a different approach. Some, like the line graph, have some practical applications in the real world, while others like the CSS fail whale are (…)

Pictos is an interesting concept in web icons, which has been released by Drew Wilson. Instead of the traditional method of using images to display icons on web pages, Pictos uses a font, in the style of Dinbats or Webdings, which can be implemented using @font-face. It’s an interesting concept. The main advantages appear to (…)

Bryan Mason announces a partnership with Adobe which brings a set of popular Adobe fonts to Typekit: Adobe and Typekit are teaming up to bring some of the world’s most popular, recognizable, and respected fonts to the web. Starting today, you’ll be able to use classics like Adobe Garamond, News Gothic, Myriad, and Minion plus many more on your (…)

Here’s a really interesting piece on Forbes about the iPad being hailed as a great e-reader for the blind. Ask any PC-loving computer nerd why Apple products have become the de facto choice of the masses, and you’ll likely hear something like, “People buy Apple products because they’re pretty.” That may be true for many, (…)

Is it time for us to take a fresh look at the subject of accessibility? Phil Powell offers some thoughtful insights into how we might make the web a more accessible place – not just for those who are disabled, but for everybody.

I made this a while ago, but due to my slackness in updating the old blog for quite some time, it’s never made it on here. As part of the North project we’re developing in partnership with folly I needed to produce a new web presence. It was quite a quick job, as time and (…)

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about web accessibility lately. A lot of that thinking has been to do with how I can improve accessibility in the work I do. I do my best to design interfaces which are logical and easy to navigate, follow accessibility guidelines where they are applicable and appropriate and (…)

I’ve been working on a new design treatment for the North website. Since the project has changed so dramatically since its inception earlier this year, we’ve introduced a new logo, and in turn will be launching a reboot of the website very soon.