JR: LA Times new website design - May 2014 - Beyond responsive: three mobile website design tricks becoming trends Trendy but not always favorable in my book. infinite scrolling - (meh, whatever) cards - (I like this) pre-written Tweets (??) Increasingly, I view websites with JavaScript d... more>> 2 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #media #responsive #design #mobile #web #blog_jr

JR: The homepage is dead - May 15, 2014 - qz.com - The homepage is dead, and the social web has woneven at the New York Times People who used RSS readers long ago would have accessed homepages less often. But obviously, socialmedia's popularity since 2007 has contributed th... more>> 1 min read
- May 21, 2014 - #media #design #reading #blog_jr

JR: Slide-in menus versus navigation bars - https://news.layervault.com/stories/23434-why-and-how-to-avoid-hamburger-menus #design - #menu - #mobile
- May 16, 2014

JR: Bicycle designs - (My Apr 29, 2014 comment in a ToledoTalk.com thread about bicycle week.) This bicycle debuted in 2013. It's made in Detroit. It's designed to be an urban, commuter bicycle. It sells for $700. - "Each bike has three speeds and comes in one color.... more>>
- Apr 29, 2014 - #bicycle #design #blog_jr

JR: Designing for everyone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7624189 #design
- Apr 22, 2014

JR: New Toledo Region Branding Info - April 2014 - (some of my info that I posted at ToledoTalk.com) "they've updated the online version with more examples of the overall branding." Indeed. The Blade story that started this thread contains info that I missed in the original story. Old Tol... more>> 1 min read
- Apr 16, 2014 - #toledo #design #advertising #business #blog_jr

JR: Allowing or disallowing comments on blogs - Mar 19, 2014 - Coding Horror - Please Read The Comments In 2006 I said that a blog without comments is not a blog and I stand behind that statement. Since no official standard exists to define a "blog," the above sentiment is obviously personal,... more>> 3 min read
- Apr 13, 2014 - #blogging #forums #comments #design #blog_jr

JR: Ezra Klein speaks about Vox and the media - Excerpts from an interview published Apr 11, 2014 at nymag.com titled Ezra Klein on Voxs Launch, Media Condescension, and Competing With Wikipedia, which contains unsurprising observations about the media's views on anything new in the media business... more>> 4 min read
- Apr 11, 2014 - #media #startup #design #blog_jr

JR: Decline of the Mobile Web - April 2014 - Some current and older stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7548530 I know it's not declining for me. I build my own web-based tools that function well on mobile devices: flip phone with Opera Mini browser iPhone Samsung S4 HP ta... more>>
- Apr 10, 2014 - #mobile #web #app #design #blog_jr

JR: Example April 2014 Vox.com story with its card usage - (My Apr 7, 2014 comment added to a Toledo Talk thread about Denver selling marijuana.) Ezra Klein's new media venture launched recently, and here's an Apr 6, 2014 story titled: Remember when legal marijuana was going to send crime skyrocketing? ... more>> 1 min read
- Apr 07, 2014 - #health #politics #legal #business #media #design #blog_jr

JR: Examples of nicely formatted Medium.com stories - Collections: https://medium.com/inside-matter https://medium.com/matter https://medium.com/beautiful-stories https://medium.com/stories-worth-seeing https://medium.com/ux-ui-design https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1 Stories Seeking A... more>>
- Apr 05, 2014 - #blogging #medium #writing #design #media

JR: My three favorite books - Trying to think about this after listening to a segment on public radio this afternoon. Obviously, it's tough to limit the list only to three. I guess that I base this upon the books that I have re-read most often. In Our Time - short stories by Er... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 28, 2014 - #todo #books #food #bread #design #programming #blog_jr

JR: Projects hosted at GitHub used to power GitHub - March 25, 2014 https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github The projects that interest me: defunkt/jquery-pjax pushState + ajax = pjax elasticsearch/elasticsearch Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine antirez/redis Redis i... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 25, 2014 - #programming #opensource #design #blog_jr

JR: Have tablets jumped the shark? - Feb 6, 2014 re/code story titled Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over Is it a link bait story or valid perspective? The tablet couldnt possibly shoulder all the expectations people had for it. Not a replacement for your laptop or phone but ki... more>> 8 min read
- Mar 19, 2014 - #mobile #laptop #phone #tablet #design #phablet #blog_jr

JR: Fluidity.css - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404618 https://github.com/mrmrs/fluidity/blob/master/css/fluidity.css /* FLUIDITY v0.1.0 @mrmrs - a href= MIT */ /* Responsive Utilities */ img, canvas, iframe, video, svg { max-width: 100%; } /* Wrap tab... more>>
- Mar 17, 2014 - #css #responsive #design