Most of the resources mentioned are free, somebody on Twitter suggested I make a blog post about all the resources since that is an easier format, keep an eye on the blog. (wolfslittlestore.be/journal)
The SEO text is auto generated by Slideshare. Download the PDF and things should be easier to skim. I try to make my presentations make sense online by using "sticky notes". But you certainly have a point.
I put the same slides on SpeakerDeck. They will be available shortly here: http://speakerdeck.com/u/wolfr . Alternatively you can download the presentation in PDF format from SlideShare too.
I re-saved some of the slides to display a static JPG, the parsing of the PDF seems to cause some problems. I just tested it and could go through the 120 slides without problems now.
"Custom is hard, and to me custom is really saying that you have more time to think about the behavior of a select box than Apple’s interaction design team.
And that you have the dev power to fix it. On every platform out there. So sometimes you just have to be pragmatic if you’re building a product."
Although using px makes for an easier example, you don't have to mention the scale in which you are sizing your ems. The example was about the spacing, not about the unit used to determine the distance between heading and paragraph.
This is a presentation about UI design I gave this week, here's the short description:
"Designing better user interfaces sets out to teach interface design by talking through concrete examples: what works, what doesn’t work. A good interface consists of a thousand details done right. This presentation is all about those details."
Hmm. I think Ext is great for stuff like dynamic datagrids and they have some proper interactions (a lot of it based on the YUI! design library, which is one of the best resources out there). Unfortunately most of it looks very developer-y and doesn't really have good defaults. I can't recommend it.
I agree, this is also mentioned somewhere in one of the last slides.
As a designer I know about MySQL, the terminal, PHP, Javascript, jQuery, RoR, Sass, HTML, CSS etc.; if a developer knows the basics about color, typography and alignment and knows why the designer in his team does the things he/she does it's probably going to be much easier working together.
Sometimes I prefer video (esp. if the delivery is very good) but for learning purposes I prefer reading since then everyone can choose their own tempo.