Jessie, Bootstrap and Foundation were a bit overkill for our needs, so we rolled our own UI pattern library for CSS based on the MailChimp UI Pattern Library: http://gvsu.edu/library/ui
It's on Github, if you want a closer look: https://github.com/gvsulib/UI-Patterns -- --- Matthew Reidsma Web Librarian @ gvsu.edu/library 616-331-3577 :: @mreidsma Why is this email so short? :: http://matthewreidsma.com/email On Friday, May 11, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Ross Singer wrote: > Hi Jessie, > > We've been using Bootstrap for a couple of our projects at Talis and I have > been incredibly pleased with it. I have zero design sense (designed by East > German engineers for East German engineers - no offense to East German > engineers), and Bootstrap manages to make my clumsy, ham-handed, > functionality-first-aesthetic-never designs, look decent (even if they *all* > look like Twitter's demo app). If I can do nothing else, design-wise, I can > add to 12 (usually). > > I haven't used Foundation, but that being said, looking over the > documentation for it, I don't see any fundamental differences between it or > Bootstrap functionality-wise. What I *do* see, offhand, is much better > documentation regarding the css being introduced. Bootstrap's documentation > is (overall) pretty good, but I feel there are TONS of UI thingies in the css > that aren't mentioned in the docs and my desire to trawl through the css and > try things (or understand by looking at it) just isn't there. > > So, basically, I think it doesn't make much of a difference either way, but > the documentation-thing *seems* (at-a-glance) to possibly favor Foundation > (although Bootstrap may be better in the things it has documentation for - > not sure). > > -Ross. > > On May 10, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Jessie Keck wrote: > > > Hi all, > > We are about to develop a set of style-guids and templates for our locally > > developed applications that will have a unified look and feel. One > > manifestation of this will be a ruby gem that we will use for all of our > > rails apps (including Blacklight and Hydra applications). > > > > As we were discussing the approaches we may take for this, the question of > > basing our designs on a library such as Bootstrap or Foundation came up. I > > have heard a lot about Bootstrap in the C4L community, but very little > > about Foundation. Does anybody here have extensive experience w/ both > > libraries and would recommend one over the other? > > > > We are already leaning towards Bootstrap as many in the Blacklight and > > Hydra communities have expressed interest or are using it already. Also, > > some folks locally who have used or investigated both libraries have had > > positive experiences in either case. > > > > Understanding that this may be boil down to a simple matter of taste, I > > wonder what opinions you all have. > > > > Thank you, > > - Jessie Keck > > Stanford University > > > > >
