Posted on 27 April 2015
During the winter 2014, me and my family rented an apartment from San Diego, CA for few months through my work. While staying there, we had an AT&T WIFI hotspot device that provided the network connection. For us, relying on this device, meant constant drops of connection, network latency like we’ve never seen before, and websites that were completely broken because JavaScript wasn’t loading at all. A part of this can probably be explained by the poor reception at the location where we were staying, but overall, the whole experience really put me thinking.
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Posted on 9 March 2015
This is an experiment I did months ago, but eventually never ended up posting it here. I had already forgotten the whole thing until it few weeks ago suddenly started popping up on my Twitter and Facebook timelines via other people. It’s a simple one pager you can use for example as a cheatsheet for various dashes.
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Posted on 27 June 2014
Manually adjusting line-height with media queries for optimum readability across vast number of screen sizes can be very hard. What makes it even harder, is, that instead of the screen width, the line-height should be relative to its container’s width and its font settings in order to achieve proper readability and appropriate spacing.
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Posted on 3 Mar 2014
Today, we are open sourcing the JavaScript code and the assets we used to build the responsive navigation on Adtile’s website. The code and examples are hosted on GitHub and can be found from here. There’s a live example too, under Adtile’s site, give it a spin. Read more about the features provided from the link below.
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Posted on 16 Jan 2014
While I’ve worked over a decade building various websites, it has only been the past 3 years that I’ve started learning more on how to work with plain JavaScript, instead of using jQuery always as the starting point. The fact that I’m learning a dozen new things every day now, has made working on our JavaScript SDK feel more like building an open source project than “actual work,” and I have to say I like that a lot.
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Posted on 7 May 2013
Today, after over two years, I’ll be leaving my position at Kisko Labs. I’ve started working on a new responsive advertising solution for smartphones and tablets called Adtile. Another big news is, that we have just received a $2.7 million funding to bring this product to the market. There’s also a story about us on today’s TechCrunch, so check that out too.
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Posted on 9 Apr 2013
Responsive Nav is a tiny JavaScript plugin which weighs only 1.6 KB minified and Gzip’ed, and helps you to create a toggled navigation for small screens. It uses touch events and CSS3 transitions for the best possible performance. It also contains a “clever” workaround that makes it possible to transition to height: auto, which isn’t normally possible with CSS3 transitions. The plugin, along the site, was released today on Smashing Magazine.
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Posted on 25 Feb 2013
Web typography, and digital typography in general, is a huge step forward in the history of typography. It has made setting type fast and easy compared with hand-setting metal type. Responsiveness, when added on top of this, makes this period of change we are living very fascinating. Not only is centuries old design theory being rewritten, but the process of how design happens is now changing too (as Mark Boulton states it).
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Posted on 18 Dec 2012
I were quite surprised few weeks ago when I found out with Matt, my colleague, that no one has tested thoroughly which mobile browsers support input type=file and how to reliably detect the support. After an hour of Googling we literally gave up and decided to find it out ourselves. The results are shared here to everyone for future reference.
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Posted on 11 Nov 2012
Remote Preview is a tiny JavaScript based tool which I built for our test lab. It allows you to preview any URL on large number of mobile devices simultaneously. Just enter a URL, hit Cmd+S, and new URL gets automatically loaded on each device. Remote preview works on platforms like Android, Blackberry, iOS, Meego, Symbian, Windows Phone and WebOS.
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Posted on 5 Nov 2012
Not so long after the device lab was born I realized that we need a much better way to store and charge all the 40+ devices. There didn’t seem to be any existing solution available which you could just buy, so I started thinking what would be the easiest way to do something like that myself. After some research I ran into this device testing station by 64 Digital and thought it looked like a perfect solution.
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Posted on 24 Sep 2012
I wrote an article to Smashing Magazine. It’s an in-depth guide about how to establish an open device lab. The article gives practical tips about things like location, how to get devices, what devices to get and what software to use. It would not have been possible to write it without the help from Shaun Dunne, Jeremy Keith, David Blooman and Andre Jay Meissner. Thank you guys, I owe you one.
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Posted on 20 Aug 2012
If you’ve been building websites during the past two years you must know that the web doesn’t live on a desk anymore. The reality is that we now need to test our work on multiple devices, instead of just few desktop browsers. All this is easier said than done. It's easy when you have a dozen devices laying on the desk in front of you, but what about the rest of us? Devices are expensive and the landscape is ever expanding.
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Posted on 28 May 2012
During the last week I was at the Webshaped conference listening Stephen Hay’s talk about responsive design workflow. This post isn’t going to be strictly about that, but as Stephen’s way reminded somewhat the way I work myself, it made me want to write down some thoughts about my workflow and how it has evolved during the past two or three years and how it might still evolve in the future.
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Posted on 8 May 2012
Couple months ago while I were designing a website I remembered a technique I had long forgotten. I used to use this technique before I moved from print design to web design about eight years ago and it was, for me, an essential way to utilize modular grids better. Grids in design are kind of like the scales in music. They give you a way to anchor your layout elements and typography to a certain rhythm.
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Posted on 15 April 2012
CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of content from presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation improves content accessibility and provides more flexibility and control over the presentation. CSS is quite flexible language on its own, but as websites become more and more complex we sometimes need to have more control.
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Posted on 5 March 2012
Recently I started testing how proportional scaling of bigger layouts would work in reality and if it makes any sense. It’s possible when using EM units and then changing body’s font-size when viewport’s height grows above certain point. Basically that means, that I have to change only one or two css properties between @media queries which are targeting larger screen sizes.
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Posted on 23 February 2012
There seems to be some confusion about these terms and what they mean, so here’s my thoughts on the subject and few links to back them up. I’m usually not very keen when it comes to debating over what something is called, but this time I wanted to make it clear, as I hear this question quite often.
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Posted on 21 January 2012
I have been intrigued by the idea of making a typographic scale out of a musical scale that would not only be very readable, but also aesthetically pleasing. This whole idea started after the launch of my new site. At first, I ignored to see it, but weeks later I started to notice that the textual content of the site is actually pretty harsh for the eyes and the reading experience isn’t that great.
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