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A handy site on which you can view your own files in relation to the various types of color blindness. In my experience with the site, the option to view your images online is better than the option to download the plug-ins. The plug-ins kept crashing for me. But your experience may be different.

Example of mobile site using jQuery Mobile. From the Digital Services Librarian: "...; I released our library's first mobile site this summer (http://m.library.iit.edu), and the framework allowed me to concentrate on the university-specific items I had to address (such as rewriting our textbook checkout code) rather than how to make it look nice on various mobile platforms."

This is a Chrome extension that will resize your browser window to the break points in the code of the current site you are viewing. Those sites without breakpoints show a blank window in the extension. Responsive Inspector is helpful to see all of the breakpoints a particular site uses. Some have several breakpoints, other sites have just a few. It's a good learning tool. It's a wee bit buggy sometimes, but it's being updated regularly. If this link does not work, just search for "Responsive Inspector" in the Chrome browser Extensions.

Justification for moving into web-based mockups

Again, neato. Thanks for sharing.

This is a cool tutorial that is in the form of a graphic novel. Read more about the making of it at http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/11/12/information-literacy-seven-ways-to-think-outside-the-box/

I was reading for the punch line and sure this was published on April 1 and somehow resurected... but - hmm - looks legit. http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-new-physical-archive-of-the-internet-archive/

I like the "Evaluating the results" section. Good ideas for involving more people in the evaluation process and making the prioritized list of improvements.

Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and I will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has been storing a long list of locations and time stamps. We're not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it's clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations.

Wow - kinda cool and just a little bit creepy. not being transmitted to Apple, but ... what's it for?

(I'd like to bridge the gap between UX design/IA and graphic design by getting us thinking more about the usability of images) Images are used for navigation, content, or ornamentation. Navigation and content image offer clear value...ornamentation less so.

(I'd like to bridge the gap between UX design/IA and graphic design by getting us thinking more about the usability of images) Images are used for navigation, content, or ornamentation. Navigation and content image offer clear value...ornamentation less so.

This list isn't necessarily up to date-for instance Smartsheet isn't listed but the ISO has already approved it-but it may be a place for us to keep an eye on in the future as we attempt to not reinvent the wheel/do original research when it comes to potential tools we could use

Not something we need immediately, but should be handy in the near future.

This is an example of a beautifully designed, built and IA'd website. They intend for this website to be a "journey website" in which you spend time exploring the site. The designer must be very happy becase his/her vision was allowed to be shown. The details of the website are too consistent to be a site designed by committee. I'm not commenting on it's compliance or browser capabilities, just the design. Sigh.

An argument against focusing on the information tools and for good old fashioned knowledge and critical thinking

"Here's a suggestion: Let's start using the terms 'prototype' and 'mockup' to mean different things. In my opinion, they talk about different ends of the problem....."

Dojo developer Becky Gibson and Knowbility Executive Director Sharron Rush demo'd this JavdScript toolkit at SXSW09. Although you wouldn't know it from the site's homepage, evidently it has a lot of great accessibility options built into the tool.