Mike Murphy-Burton

@oldmanhero
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Recovering gamedev and actor, current programmer and writer. Lives in Newfoundland and Labrador with a wife, a dog, a cat, and a crippling sense of inadequacy.
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Just a small study in how we haven't figured out #responsivedesign even now.

Left: What Trello looks like in a desktop browser window that's been reduced to less than 1/4 screen

Right: What a responsive page should look like at that size.

SO MUCH WASTED SPACE. Focus on the one thing your app should do, even (especially) on the web.

When you post a petition on Change.org, you get a prompt to add an image because "petitions with images get X times more support", and the reason why is NOT a mystery, because this is how a text-only petition is represented on one of the major social media platforms.

It doesn't even SHOW THE TITLE except in the downplayed excerpt text.

I try not to obsess over site stats, given I don't publish substantial articles that often, but it's always fun to see a bit of traffic when I post one