A New Design for a New Year!
Starting the year off right with a refresh of my andrewheins.ca. The old design wasn’t properly implemented, and I wanted to test a few more modern practices with this site.
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The Mad Science of Web Design
Back in high school, you probably learned the Scientific Method. It probably looked something like this: (quoted from sciencebuddies.com) When I first got started with web design, I thought it was an art. That was bad news at the time because if you’ve ever met me, you’ll know I’m not the most artistic [...]
Mocking a Responsive Design
Responsive Design, or the idea that a website should respond to the size and orientation of the device on which it’s being viewed, is a tough concept for some designers and developers to wrap their heads around. The best advice I can give someone who is just getting started in responsive design is to starting [...]
Stop Screwing with the Scrollbar!
A new trend that I’ve seen in UI design lately is to try to redesign the scrollbar. While I understand the good intentions, we’ve seen some particularly horrible examples of UX from these attempts. A Horrible Idea Reinventing or reskinning the scroll bar isn’t exactly a new phenonmenon. Ever since Flash became a popular medium, [...]