Tuesday reads

Each Tuesday this year, I’m going to share some of the things I’ve been reading which I have been inspired by or learnt from.

Helpful tips for increasing your iPhone’s battery length – I’ve done some of these already.

Sad to see Five Simple Steps has closed down, but happy to see Mark has a new beginning at Monotype. And, happy to see that books are still continuing elsewhere as they are giving the books back to the authors to distribute as they see fit. Here’s one of those: a new guide to CSS animations.

Quartz doubled their email sign-up rate by simplifying the process – including only requiring only an email address. I always wonder why forms ask for name: it’s not really needed.

“Can a blog die?” – good food for thought, and plenty of comments discussing it!

Debating using a “hamburger” icon for navigation. Comments are worth reading here too.