Essence of a web week: Week 51

In the last edition of the year we will take a look at: two design and user experience stories, some impressive numbers, multilingual Drupal site and Instagram.

The Essence of a web week series will take a Christmas break and return in the New Year.

Design and User Experience

Bassett & Partners: Connecting

In this documentary industry experts give their say on how they believe interaction design and user experience will become a central part in the Internet of Things.

Hello Erik: UX is not UI
Erik Flowers extensively explains why user interface design is only a small part of a user experience while referring to the UX umbrella.

Technology

Communities Dominate Brands: Latest Mobile Numbers for End of Year 2012 - This is getting humongous..
If you need some facts and figures to argue why Responsive Web Design isn't just a nice to have feature - this might be something for you!

Drupal

LevelTen: Lessons Learned from 3 Drupal Multilingual Projects
The majority of websites we release are multilingual. If you are not familiar with the subject this blog post gives you a first hand experience of getting to grips with it.

Tweets that cut through the noise.

File sharing: you don't mind when it's some musician's song or a designer's game. When it's your shitty Instagram photos it all changes, eh?

— kentonallen (@kentonallen) December 19, 2012

The change of Instagram's terms of service created a stir this week. Kenton Allen tried to give the subject a different perspective.