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I came here trying to get a better feel for what "data curation" really means. I found the data management "stack model" explanation in this 5 minute video to be helpful.

Stefanie recommend's for wireframe fonts and icons!

Timeline generator for JS using Google Spreadsheet as input.

Very cool! Thanks for posting, Daniel.

UI/UX Design Patterns

Brad Frost (and all his responsive design patterns) on Codepen

DrupalCon Portland keynote about the intersection of Drupal dev and content strategy. Really good talk.

I read a positive blurb about this citation/reference app in WIRED magazine and thought some of you wacky librarians may find it helpful.

An interesting article on using sketches in the collaboration within a team. While this article concentrates on mobile solutions, sketching can be used for websites as well. A pull-quote from the article: "Learning from sketches is based largely on the ambiguous nature of their representation. (Sketches) do not specify everything and lend themselves to, and encourage, various interpretations that were not consciously integrated into them by their creator."

I came to this site via a Tweet about the "Evaluating digital services" infoKit which is pretty interesting. So are the others! "Our infoKits contain a wealth of 'self-help' material, from simple methodologies to manage projects, risks, change and processes; to image galleries of technology-rich spaces and reflections from leaders to learners showcasing the inspiring use of technology across the sectors."

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Thought the Team would enjoy. Very few people on their death bed have said, "I should have spent more time at work." FROM THE WEBSITE: SurveyMonkey has been profitable from almost day one and refuses to go public. SurveyMonkey has done all of this while creating a culture that enables the company's CEO, Dave Goldberg, to leave the office by 5:30 p.m.

The display is made up of pieces that rise and fall to create a simple, but breakthrough, 3-D shape that you create.

If we accept this, are there implications for our aim to design a responsive site?

I take issue with focusing on the amount of time spent in apps vs. mobile web. If you look at the breakdown, 68% of app time is on pure entertainment activities like gaming, social media and YouTube. Which makes total sense that people spend a disproportionate amount of time on those things. Plus that guy looks really annoying!

RE: Mason-Good points, Señor Mason. But using inflammatory titles gets people reading. My next post will be "LIBRARIES ARE DEAD-EVERYTHING IS ON GOOGLE, ANYWAY".

Trying to decide if we need these...

Might be cool to try with clients or maybe pilot test it on the TIS section of the staff site

Good example of an At a Glance Branch page that incorporates key information: -hours -map -floor plans -contact info -service points -subjects -equipment

crowd sourced card sorting

crowd sourced card sorting

Some URLs of other carousel plug ins we might consider or use for inspiration: http://codecanyon.net/item/advanced-slider-jquery-xml-slider/full_screen_preview/132618 http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/28/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/34/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/6/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/26/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/7/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/13/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/39/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/68/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/38/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/25/ http://wowslider.com/?gclid=CIDozI7TuL4CFSsV7AodpBcA8w http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-content-scroller-dzs/full_screen_preview/3827946 http://codecanyon.net/item/multipurpose-bookshelf-slider-jquery-plugin/full_screen_preview/1985655 http://codecanyon.net/item/everslider-responsive-jquery-carousel-plugin/full_screen_preview/5132868 http://themes.themepunch.com/?theme=showbizpro_jq

Interesting crowdbased option for captioning and subtitling video

Zurb story here: http://zurb.com/responsive/reading Kia's site is: http://www.kia.com Number 6 is Kia's new RWD. I went to the kia.com site and the RWD was pretty awful. * MIN WIDTH: -- images and text are blurry. -- horizontal nav completly disappears. -- the 3 stacked horizontal bars that should pull up a menu.....don't. They drop the main page and you're stuck facing a carousel and some monumental horizontal and vertical scrolling to see only models of vehicles. * MAX WIDTH: -- they don't have a max width and try to stretch into infinity. Stretched across 2 or 3 of my displays and I have the full site.....blurry. * MOBILE SITE: -- it's a mini-version of the main desktop site. -- this works well on the iPad in both vertical and horizontal orientation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've seen great RWD when the min- and max-width are defined and the three horizontal bars become what used to be the horizontal navigation. But Kia's desktop RWD fall short in my opinion. If anyone ever reads this, I wonder what their impressions would be.