Sam Hicks

Sam Hicks

Designer, Developer, Daydreamer

  • London, GB

Front end developer/designer with a passion for all things web. Driven by the desire to create simple, enjoyable user experiences for the web

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    Lucian Tarnowski

    Lucian Tarnowski

    I love our new most popular tab. It shows the content with interaction for every community. Well done team. More cool things coming very soon.
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    Karol Grecki in Scrum

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    • Scrum Guides - Scrum.org

      The Scrum Guide the official rulebook The Scrum Guide documents the Scrum framework and is maintained by Scrum's creators, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. The latest English version is posted below. Learn more about the Scrum Guide in the . Download the Scrum Guide FAQ revision history of the English Scrum Guide master document.

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    Robert Peake

    Robert Peake Rowan Manning

    What didn't you like about jQuery Mobile?
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    • Rowan Manning
      Rowan Manning
      I didn't like how rigid it felt. The premise is excellent: I love how much it decouples from the DOM, I love the device support and it was great that I could just drop it in my page to kick-start the site; however, I found it very hard to customise/override the styling and do things outside of the core functionality
    • Sam Hicks
      Sam Hicks
      Similar thoughts. A great way to implement a mobile site quickly and with relative ease. The downside of this however is that it's difficult to customise the UI styling. Not impossible but time consuming. For every line of CSS applying new styles you need another 10 to override existing ones. They do offer a selection of their own customisable themes and drag and drop UI builder, which if you're happy to work with their designs makes this a fantastic solution for mobile.
    • Robert Peake
      Robert Peake
      Awesome, thanks guys. I just updated my personal (WordPress) site to the (beta) twenty twelve theme, which has nice media query support, then used modernizr and jQuery mobile to detect touch devices and enhance the experience. All very beta, but I'm pleased with it so far on my iOS devices: http://www.robertpeake.com (p.s. posted this comment on my iPhone too, worked great!)
    • Robert Peake
      Robert Peake
      OK, scratch that. I've ditched jQuery mobile after too many frustrating problems with ajax loading etc. etc.--it's "heavy" and it wants to do everything *its* way, and if I were rapidly prototyping a phonegap app using its constraints I could see how it would be very fast. But I was just using it to enhance styling for touch devices. Love Modernizr for loading that up, but I can easily roll my own CSS/JS to accomplish the same without so many headaches (and so much overhead). Bye, bye jQuery Mob… Read moreile. Hello Modernizr and custom CSS/JS.
    • Rowan Manning
      Rowan Manning
      Nice to see that you came to the same conclusions! I generally much prefer very light-weight frameworks which I can adapt to suit my needs – I'm not a fan of the massive HTML boilerplates, end-to-end JS 'MVC' frameworks or the absolutely giant Zend Framework ;)

  • Sam Hicks in Web Design

    Creating a comprehensive style guide when designing for the web is a great way to define the look and feel of a site/app. As a minimum your style guide should cover global typography styles, colour palettes, grid layouts, and other core design elements that will make up the pages on your site.

    Gone are the days of creating a website design page by page.

    Ultimately a well thought out style guide will save you time and will act as a handy reference point for developers and designers alike. It will require continual iteration but should inform the design of new features and will ensure that as your site grows it maintains a visual flow and design consistency, in keeping with your brand.

    Take a look at BBC's GEL guidelines http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel, a fantastic example of a carefully crafted style guide, created for one of the bigges… Read moret and best known brands in the country.

    • Brave New Talent, Front End Developer, London

      January 2012 to present

    • Makemedia, Web Designer/Junior Front-End Developer

      November 2010 to January 2012

    • Design Distillery, Graphic/Web Designer

      July 2010 to November 2010

    • DJH Advertising, Graphic/Web Designer

      January 2007 to January 2009

    • PEP the Printers, Creative Artworker/Marketing Assistant

      October 2006 to January 2008

    • Westcountry Publications, Artworker

      July 2004 to November 2005

    • International Baccalaureate Diploma, Exeter College, Devon

      2004