Tagged “design”

1. Header images on Medium
   18 October 2015Medium design

   One of Medium’s designers, Marcin Wichary, wrote several helpful pieces explaining the changes that have come with the recent Medium Update. In particular, he wrote at length about UI changes made in order to make Medium work better for the majority of readers — who access the site on smartphones and tablets, rather than on larger screens.

   One thing that seems to have changed, but I can’t see mentioned anywhere, is that I can’t set an image to be a full-bleed background with a heading over it anymore.

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   Marginal notes on Medium
   10 October 2015Medium design

   John Benham Clements has written eloquently on the recent change to marginal notes, linked as a response to Ev Williams’s original piece about Why Medium Notes are different and how to use them well from April 2013. This piece is prompted by that one; you might like to read it first.