StartupDigest Design – September 28, 2011

28/09/2011

For newcomers: StartupDigest Design is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best resources in the design industry.

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Design, the members-only guide to becoming a better designer every week.Happy Wednesday!With the usage of mobile devices increasing every day, it’s important for every designer to think about how their designs will be experienced across multiple screen sizes. Responsive design is getting a lot of attention lately, especially with the recent redesign of The Boston Globe. Here are some other examples of responsive design in action.

StartupDigest Design is curated by:
Jeremy Merle – Creative Director, Brightcove
Enrique Allen - Founding designer, 500 Startups

 

 

Resource of the Week

24 Excellent Examples of Responsive Web Design
By Gisele Muller, WDL

As a designer you need to be thinking about how your designs will be experienced across multiple devices. Get inspired with these examples of responsive design.

 

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StartupDigest Design – September 16, 2011

17/09/2011

For newcomers: StartupDigest Design is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best articles in the design industry.

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Design, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the design industry every week.This weeks’ digest is inspired by Craig Mod’s recent essay on the future of our book and made me reflect upon the form of what we’re creating on the web. So I included a couple first hand examples from designers as well as open frameworks you can use to shape your apps.

StartupDigest Design is curated by:
Jeremy Merle – Creative Director, Brightcove
Enrique Allen - Founding designer, 500 Startups

What You Need to Read This Week

The Shape of Our Future Book

By Craig Mod, Flipboard

The myth of the book is bigger than any one man as we push the edges of its form.

Zerply Frontend

By Lukes Beard, Zerply

Great to see young designers rolling up their sleeves and embracing CSS3.

Responsive Web Design

By Ethan Marcotte, A List Apart

Just in case you missed the whole “Responsive Design” thing.

Modernizr

By Faruk Ates, Paul Irish, Alex Sexton, modernizr.com

Modernizr allows you to easily feature detect for any feature in a browser or a device.

Selectivizr

By Keith Clark, selectivizr.com

Runs in the background automatically and allows you to work in IE6 through 8 without having to do anything.

Baker Ebook Framework

By Davide Casali, Marco Colombo, Alessandro Morandi, bakerframework.com

A HTML5 e-book framework to publish interactive books and magazines on iPad and iPhone using simply open web standards.

The Photoshop Etiquette for Web Designers

By Dan Rose, photoshopetiquette.com

Check out this collection of ways to improve the clarity of a PSD when transferred.

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Guadalajara StartupDigest – August 29, 2011

29/08/2011

Below is an archived version of the Guadalajara StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Guadalajara. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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The StartupDigest Gdl is a curated list of interesting events for tech entrepreneurs in Guadalajara. Make sure you send your entrepreneur events to Rubén or Ruy, so you can help this list grow!This week we have a Drupal meeting, and Beer and Code on Friday! Also, make sure to check (and congratulate) the winners of the Rally on Rails, many interesting projects to check out. And even if it is not in the Guadalajara area, we want to make sure you know there’s a Startup Weekend in Monterrey citynext weekend!We have scheduled a course on Videogame Character Design by Larva Game Studios for this Saturday. Date may move due to external circumstances, but we’ve extended the date for the contest in which we’re giving away two full scholarships, so you still have a chance to submit your entry! Stay tuned on the calendar for the new dates. 

Guadalajara StartupDigest is curated by:
Rubén Medellín – Web Developer at Freshout
Ruy Cervantes - Working on a Ph.D. on Informatics

 

 

What’s Going on in the Guadalajara Startup Community

8th Drupal Meetup – Responsive design with Omega (Free)
When: September 1st, 7:30 pm
Where: Hacker Garage. Vidrio #2188, Col. Americana, Guadalajara, Jalisco

 

Drupal enthusiasts present Omega, a CSS / HTML framework aiming to provide flexible layouts adaptable for different layouts, such as big screens or mobile devices.

Beer and Code (Free)
When: September 2nd, 7:30pm
Where: Hacker Garage. Vidrio #2188, Col. Americana, Guadalajara, Jalisco

 

Following the spirit of the hackups, we have a second session of Beer & Code. Come and watch short technical or inspirational videos, then proceed to work a little in your projects while having a beer.

 

Top Upcoming Events

September 9-11 - Gira TelmexHub
September 19 – AppCircus Guadalajara App submission

 

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