A couple of months ago, we implemented responsive images for Goizueta Business School’s website. I want to give a summary of how we did it. Our site is quite large; content and assets are edited by multiple people, managed and overseen by a Marketing and Communications team. A responsive images solution needed to be dead […]
Tonx is a coffee subscription service, delivering freshly roasted coffee right to your door. I was aware of Tonx through various mentions on Twitter, but was able to give them a try through their Starbucks gift card exchange program, as I had received a Starbucks gift card from Christmas. Overview The service is pretty straightforward; […]
Luke Wroblewski takes and shares great notes from talks that he attends. They’re big shoes, and I don’t expect to fill them, but here are my notes from Luke’s “Mobile Design Now” talk. The Mobile Opportunity Arguing for Mobile With the growth in mobile, it’s difficult to argue that we shouldn’t address mobile The Mobile […]
The second day of An Event Apart has wrapped up. I would say that only one new theme emerged, a couple of talks tied in with one of yesterday’s themes, and a couple of talks stood on their own ground. Test Everything The dominant theme in today’s talks was the importance of testing. As builders […]
Having finished the first day of An Event Apart Atlanta, I’ve come away with a lot of good information. My notes are much more extensive than this post, but these are the common themes I felt emerge from the various talks. The Web is Complicated The largest theme of the day was that the web […]
When snow hits the South, it is often accompanied by condescending remarks about the South’s seeming overreaction to “just a little bit of snow.” I don’t argue that we don’t see much snow in the South, or that we take conservative measures with it, but I do think the patronizing commentary on our plight is […]
For a while now, I’ve known that the biggest factor limiting my home espresso was my grinder: it just couldn’t grind finely or consistently enough. My shots were weak and watery. I compensated by using dark roasted beans and increasing the overall volume, but I knew that’s all I was doing: compensating. I even began […]