If an App Is Your Content Strategy, You Are Doomed

Bloomberg takes a look at newspapers and magazines that considered the iPad their savior.

Storyboarding iPad Transitions

Greg Nudelman walks through the amazing detail of iPad (and iPhone) animations and shares his thoughts on how to document their design for developers.

How To Build A Mobile Website

This deep dive from Smashing Magazine includes a lot of often-overlooked details of implementing a mobile website.

Progressive Signup: A Better User Signup Process

QuietWrite segments their users by step of the sign-up process to provide a low-effort account creation flow.

This Shell by the Gamits

Similar to what the Arcade Fire did a while back with incorporating video and HTML5, this hit the webs recently. It was created by some very cool folks at Legwork Studios as well as the Denver band, The Gamits.

Controlling text size in Safari for iOS without disabling user zoom

456 Berea Street takes a look at the intricacies of text scaling and orientation changes on iOS.

iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS

A stunning collection of iOS icon replications made purely with CSS. Be sure to use a webkit browser to check these out.

Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla’s Free “School of Webcraft”

Mashable runs down Mozilla’s expansion of their School of Webcraft to 30 classes.

Five UX antipatterns to avoid when designing Log-in & Registration areas

Harry Brignull uses real-world examples to remind us what NOT to do when designing log-in and registration flows.

Apple engineer re-creates ancient computer with Legos

I remember using a computer to control Lego models back in school. Now the computer itself is made of Legos!

Mies van der Rohe Society

An appropriately stunning website for one of history’s greatest designers.

Telescopic Text

A new take on “progressive reveal”.

How content strategy, IA, and technology play a part in CMS selection and design: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/strategic-content-management/

We’re not quite sure what to make of this one, but it’s an interesting exercise in…something: http://art.yale.edu/

Yesterday was World Usability Day: http://www.worldusabilityday.org

Google launched Instant Preview: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/beyond-instant-results-instant-previews.html (a topic on which we had some thoughts)

Windows Phone 7 launched in the U.S.: http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/08/windows-phone-7-now-on-sale-in-the-us/

And it took only days for some to proclaim it a failure: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/windows_phone_7/

The week’s final big release was of jQuery 1.4.4: http://blog.jquery.com/2010/11/11/jquery-1-4-4-release-notes/

HTML5-compatible video on the Web, October 2010: http://blog.mefeedia.com/html5-oct-2010

Preview of Adobe’s Edge prototype tool for HTML5: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/preview-of-the-edge-prototype-tool-for-html5-/

Need a lot of GUIDs fast? Online GUID Generator: http://www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx

Smashing Magazine’s Review of popular Web font embedding services: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/20/review-of-popular-web-font-embedding-services/

High-level overview of JavaScript frameworks from Luke W: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1220

Replicating iOS pagination with JavaScript for iPad: http://insideria.com/2010/10/replicate-the-ios-pagination-w.html

UX Matters’ take on Designing for Different Screen Sizes: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2010/10/going-mobile-designing-for-different-screen-sizes-promoting-your-mobile-app.php

iScroll – provide content scrolling inside a fixed-size element in iOS: http://cubiq.org/iscroll

Detailed, step-by-step write-up on developing for Android: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/25/get-started-developing-for-android-with-eclipse/

Welcome to the M|Blog!

At Malenke | Barnhart, we’ve long clamored for a company blog–a place where we can all take part in sharing what we know and engaging with our peers, clients and friends to learn what we don’t. We’ve been around for 9 years now–through two recessions–which means we’ve created a name for ourselves and had LOTS of great clients to work with. As anyone in the agency world knows, though, client work comes before agency work…so it’s now 2010 when we’re finally launching our blog! More…