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This gives the user the impression that their phone is reading their text messages, which feels invasive.

Cameron here, designer for The Informant. We've just launched as a Heroku addon and are looking for feedback, insights & whatever you can throw at us. What it is: The Informant is …

Fair enough. This seems like CSS Positioning 201 to me, but I've been dealing with this stuff for a long time now, so my perspective is probably pretty skewed. I completely agree w…

Good grief, if the element to be centered has a fixed height and width, then there's nothing to this. I've been using the negative margin method for years: http://jsfiddle.net/mBBJ…

Designer here. The specific downsides addressed in the article, IMHO, can be a problem of process, not tools. On my projects (I work at Hashrocket, RoR shop) we put clients through…

Credit to my coworker Shane Riley for making this joke last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4640843

I posit that taste is a skill. There's no reason why someone might be able to work to become better at understanding, distilling, and working with known stylistic & cultural touchs…

FWIW, I tell most developers I know to not stress out about their personal blog design and just focus on the value of content. The vast majority of default/built-in blog layouts ar…

(To clarify my own statements: I'm not saying there's never a time to use a highly accessible datepicker, just that a very common use case for a datepicker is just to provide a vis…

This picker seems nice. I'm bookmarking it for any case where a complex datepicker is necessary. For people looking for keyboard / accessibility support, I personally don't think a…

As a designer that works primarily with Rails devs on large-scale applications, I feel the pain of developers that need UI/UX/application designers and can't find/afford them (for …

As a designer, I am impressed with how graciously Collazo handled the situation, and disappointed that he had to go to such lengths to satisfy Barry. I'm hoping that the inherent b…