ALA 245: Ignoring the Suck, Embracing the Gold
I have completed another wonderful issue of A List Apart. Issue 245 packs in another two great additions to the magazine from two equally outstanding authors. Here is the quick:
Get Out from Behind the Curtain by Sarah B. Nelson -
Client input: positive process or creative noose? Many designers would probably say the latter. But it needn’t be that way. Adaptive Path’s Sarah Nelson shows how to create collaborative work sessions that take the clients’ needs in hand while leaving creative control in yours.
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Put Your Content in my Pocket, Part II by Craig Hockenberry -
Screen size matters. And now that Apple is embedding mobile Safari in more iPods than the iPhone alone, it matters even more. Concluding his remarkable two-part series, Craig Hockenberry covers the down and dirty details of designing and coding with the iPhone (and its brethren) in mind.
Both articles are wonderfully written, but Craig’s second article on designing for the iPhone is pure gold. I simply love the fact that we can have articles / discussions about browsers like this. Safari’s breadth as a mobile browsing device has been wished for by me (and I’m sure about a zillion others) for quite a long time. It’s nice to see that we are heading in the right direction now. I do wish I had access to it, though. Hmmm… can anyone say iPod Touch? Perhaps it’s time to make a teeny investment.
