Nudge Up

Bloom: new ways to see and communicate

Great parallax view effect as you scroll down. (via @jnack)

The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers

Truly an amazing tutorial. I haven’t read something that blends art and science to an astounding outcome in quite while. It’s definitely worth reading through just to gain inspiration of how you can look to math and science for wonderous results in your designs. Along with that, it demonstrates a clever technique to make repeated patterns not appear like patterns to the naked eye.

(via Veerle)

The New Bulletproof @Font-Face Syntax

If you’re doing web design and not using Fontspring yet, shame on you. While TypeKit and a bunch of the other great web font services that have cropped over the years are great, Fontspring hits that sweet spot for me of not relying on someone else to host the fonts and thusly charging me monthly with usage caps and having a great collection of high quality fonts to choose from. The fact they’ve figured out the tricky stuff for me of finding the winning font-face stack goes a long way too. I can’t say enough about these guys. I used them on Widgetbox and it worked out great.

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers

Mario "Kuroir" Ricalde: SASS is CSS on Steroids

Ever since I began learning CSS back in 2003, I remember asking myself why didn’t it provide basic mathematical operators. Seven years later, I still ask myself that question.

What would make CSS a better language to quickly develop and maintain web applications? The answer for me was pretty…

I just started using SASS and Compass myself. I can’t recommend it enough for anyone who deals in CSS.

Hat tip to David Kaneda and Jay Robinson of Sencha for turning me onto it.

Getting Sassy with CSS

9-bits:

My newest post on the Sencha blog covering the wonders of SASS and Compass. Includes a full getting started guide and covers some of the techniques we used in developing the themes for Sencha Touch.