Listen to WalmartLabs on the RWD Podcast
We had the great fortune to help WalmartLabs convert their sites to responsive design, and it is always nice to see our clients get recognized for their hard work. Mini Kurhan and…
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Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator
Responsive image breakpoints have vexed me for nearly four years. They have been my personal koan—my unsolvable problem—until today. See a couple of years ago, I had a crazy idea to pick…
A Responsive Guide to Type Sizing
When starting new projects, a CSS builder’s initial concerns tend to involve typography. Setting a typographic foundation with the right mixture of ingredients can form something solid enough to support many other building blocks of…
Donating the proceeds from Responsive Field Day
Our core mission for Responsive Field Day was to put on an event that would benefit the Portland tech community. That mission drove every decision we made including what to do with any money…
Seriously, Don’t Use Icon Fonts
Icons are everywhere. These “little miracle workers” (as John Hicks described them) help us reinforce meaning in the interfaces we design and build. Their popularity in web design has never been greater; the conciseness…
SVG 101: A Gentle Introduction
Fun fact: Cloud Four’s design team really digs SVG. Our enthusiasm for the image format accumulated gradually over many months, thanks in large part to Sara Soueidan’s tireless documentation of its most mysterious features…
The web’s lost opportunity to be on TV
Apple announced the new Apple TV yesterday. As many expected, it didn’t come with Safari. What was unexpected is that it doesn’t appear to have WebKit at all. The utility of WebKit for…
What I’m watching for in the new Apple TV
We’re about an hour away from the Apple event where they will announce the new Apple TV. Here are the things I’m going to be watching for based on my time researching Smart TVs, game…
On the Device Context Continuum
The fact the Apple may soon release an App Store for TVs has me revisiting a couple of questions that have troubled me these last few years: Where does the common device context continuum start…
The feature phone era of TVs ends next week
Three years ago after writing Head First Mobile Web with Lyza, I was burnt out on mobile and wanted to do something different. So I decided to start researching the web on TVs. TVs…