Brian Dys

Category: Updates

  • A Comet Is Coming (Adobe Comet, That Is)

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    Someone’s lurking in the shadows in the alley – watching Sketch and InVision pass the ball between them back and forth, forth and back. Lo and behold! Adobe comes out snatching the ball and slam-dunkin’ it in the ring. While it rains shattered fiberglass, it introduces Comet. A whole new experience in user experience design.…

  • WordPress Plugins I Can’t Do Without

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    Currently, these are my default plugins whenever I would install WordPress: Akismet Jetpack Limit Login Attempts Update: 8 April As I am looking for ways to concatenate CSS and JS files in the theme that I’m working on (Applicator), I tested several PHP scripts and WP plugins. And the only thing simple enough to work…

  • U.S. Web Design Standards

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    This is just what we need for government websites in Philippines – web design standards: https://playbook.cio.gov/designstandards/

  • Hey World!

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    Once and for all, stop thinking too much when you write. Pages and pages of ideas pass you by as you think too much. Write, just write. Let this be a sketchpad wherein raw ideas – instead of getting drawn – get serialized into a whole that might make sense. To you, to me and…

  • While in SF

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    24 August 2015 UX Week, SF Being here in SF opens up my mind towards wanting a higher goal for my career. Do I really want to be in a developed country? What’s the higher goal? Well it’s more of for myself really – to worry less about the mundane things that the government fails…

  • Philippines Ranks 9 out of 142 Countries in Global Gender Gap Report 2014

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    In time for the celebration of International Women’s Day today – we celebrate women’s achievements, we call for greater equality. #MakeItHappen It is good news that Philippines ranks number 9 out of 142 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2014. This means that the gap between genders in many aspects of our economy is…

  • Structural Classes

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    Structural Classes are classes that denote hierarchy in HTML tags particularly in div tags. Example: Structure of a Component [html] <div class="comp"> <div class="cr"> <h class="accessible-name"></h> <div class="ct"> Content </div> </div> </div> [/html] Please note that h denotes a heading tag that varies from 1 to 6 depending on the HTML 4 outline. The Structural…

  • Introducing UI View and UI Container

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    There’s a need for web pages to be defined in which view it is in and in which type of container the whole view is in. In this regard I am using ui-view–<view name> and ui-cr–<container name> (cr short for container). UI View UI View is the representation of the totality of the page or…

  • Dubbing HopScotch Versions

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    It’s very easy to number versions (e.g.,version 1, version 2, version 2.0) – it’s linear and you could place decimal points for smaller versions. However, it’s boring. That’s why the likes of Microsoft, Android, WordPress (and a lot more) dub their versions or releases around a theme. Let me introduce to you song titles from…

  • Philippines Is on a Roll

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    The world is expected to grow 3.2 percent in 2015 and 3.7 percent next year after expanding 3.3 percent in each of the past two years, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists. China, the Philippines, Kenya, India and Indonesia, which together make up about 16 percent of global gross domestic product, are all forecast…