You may have noticed Responsive Web design, the practice of using CSS media-queries to style content appropriately for device and context, is becoming more prevalent. In fact, at the time of writing this post, MediaQueri.es, a blog dedicated to showcasing Responsive Web designs was a trending post on Twitter.
Among user experience practitioners, this adoption is a welcome movement as we move into an era where digital consumption is happening on a growing range of devices – from smart phones, to tablets to even large area displays like televisions.
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We often talk about creative technology as the impetus to solving new challenges for industries like advertising, publishing and finance. However, as folks with friends and family who’ve recently required serious medical care over the last year, we wanted to pause talk about what we call ‘critical technology’ – the solutions that will help healthcare providers and patients get the best medical treatment possible through elegant Web-enabled, mobile systems.
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We usually don’t discuss the changes we make in our process as they are often very incremental and temporal. However, one recent change that we’d like to share is our decision to move away from producing page-level wireframes and toward creating prototypes as part of our Interaction Design practice. This is an approach widely discussed in our industry and certainly not novel to Uproot, but still in its infancy.
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The stars aligned last Thursday night and the entire most of the Uproot crew (sorry Chris) were able leave the studio in time to attend Dan Saffer’s lecture at OCAD. Dan is a highly respected author and Principal of Interaction Design at Kicker Studio in San Francisco.
Dan’s talk, The Complexity of Simplicity in Design, was focused on how to achieve simplicity in design. There are few user experience practitioners that don’t strive for simplicity but, as Dan pointed out, it isn’t easy to achieve.
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Behind the beautifully designed and crafted Microsoft Arc Mouse lies a great story. In this video (requires Silverlight plug-in) Young Kim, Senior User Experience Designer at Microsoft, discusses the process of going from concept to completion through numerous iterations and refinements.
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Connecting in Hong Kong by Stuck in Customs
Unless you’ve been under a rock you know the uproar from travellers passing through US airport security has been at a fever pitch in recent weeks. Jon Gruber has probably the most startling stories linked up at Daring Fireball. All the related articles are worth the read to gain insight into what’s happening.
There’s an honest debate to be had about how far we need to go to secure our safety. However, going through the screening myself last weekend at JFK International the one thing that crossed my mind was what UX folk like myself can take away from the security flow at most airports.
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We’re happy to welcome our newest team member, Kyle Newsome. Kyle is the face behind 
