#context (7 links)
- How Context Cascades southleft.substack.com
A clean design system behaves like well-structured CSS. Inheritance flows, overrides are rare, and each layer respects the next. Here's how that mindset holds up in an agentic AI world.
- Building like it's 1984: A comprehensive guide to creating intuitive context menus - Height height.app
So as you can see, building context menus is quite a bit more complicated than it looks from the outside!
Another good "UI is more complex than pictures" example.
We can no longer presume that the content accessed through mobile devices will also be viewed on them. With AirPlay, mobile device experiences can just as easily become 10 foot lean-back experiences, negating all your assumptions about display size and bandwidth. Responsive meda strategies will need to get more sophisticated to take this into account.
- The One Rule randsinrepose.com
- LukeW | Mobile Context Revisited lukew.com
Mobile context has been overblown. It is device capabilities and constraints plus the fact that mobile devices are with you anywhere and everywhere. But those factors are important enough that they force us to rethink Web design.
- People-centric Mobile Computing | About Mobility Weblog weblog.cenriqueortiz.com
An Introduction to the mobile context and mobile social software, which explores the topics of the mobile context and its role on what I referred to as People-centric mobile computing.