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  • The Smashing Book #3

    I’ve had the eBook for a little while now but have only recently had the time to start reading it and thought it would be a good time to get started as you can now get hold of the eBook version yourself. The first chapter by Paul Boag is great as it really encourages you to try and understand the ‘why’ of a redesign by focusing on the business reasons and whether you actually do need to redesign or simply realign for now. I can’t wait to read the rest.

  • The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers

    I can’t stand such obvious design theft that Samsung Mobile have been guily of lately so it’s good to see them address this issue with the latest in the Galaxy line even if it does look a bit ugly.

    So Samsung, was it worth it? Your product won’t sell as well, but you won’t piss off one of your biggest component customers either. I understand the motivation, but I still feel like you’ve sold your soul.

    You mean the same soul they basically stole from Apple?

  • Jakob Nielsen is Stuck in the Past

    A great piece by Josh Clark on why Jakon Nielen is wrong about mobile in his recent article on his blog.

    Look, it’s hard to build a great mobile experience with complete content and features. It takes careful thought and planning. But the obligation of design leaders is not to say, “don’t bother.” It’s to provide guidance on how to do it well. Responsive design, adaptive design, progressive enhancement, and progressive disclosure give us the technical tools we need to create a single website that works well on all sites. We’re still learning to use those tools the right way. Just because it’s a design challenge to use them correctly doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive to do it right.

    Spot on. Something I basically tweet a few days ago:

  • SVG Image Stacks for CSS Backgrounds

    A very nice proposed alternative to dealing with image sprites as backgrounds in CSS. Only supported in Firefox but hopefully other browsers will implement it too.

  • Change the Default WordPress Thumbnail JPG Compression Quality

    A question I too was asking myself only recently but didn’t have the time to look at, but thankfully, Orman then posted a link to a solution:

    I’ll archive the code here as the link is using Google’s cache as the site isn’t currently working.

    add_filter('jpeg_quality', function($arg){return 100;});

    Just add the single line above to your functions.php file if you’re using PHP5+, otherwise you’ll have to use the code below. Change 100 to the percentage quality you want the thumbnails to be saved out to.

    function jpeg_quality_callback($arg)
{
return (int)100;
}

add_filter('jpeg_quality', 'jpeg_quality_callback');

    I haven’t tested this yet but a number of people in the comments of that post confirms it works.

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