Designing a tablet UI often means making two different UIs: one for portrait mode and one for landscape mode. But it's easier than it sounds—and you can do it entirely with CSS.

Let's say you want to display a list of videos in two different ways: as a top-down list in portrait mode and as a grid in landscape mode. First, start with some CSS that applies to both portrait and landscape modes:

We recently sponsored a Video Player Skin Design Contest to generate interest in some of our design and creative job openings, including our Senior UX Designer position.

Brightcove was recently featured in a book published by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's Bill Moggridge.

Brightcove is known for offering the fastest, most powerful video players on the web. We've got the largest built-in library of gorgeous, fast and lightweight player templates with point-and-click styling. You can customize players even more using BEML editing. No other online video platform gives you as many ways to control the viewer experience.

I received a comment on a past post I did in April looking at creating a custom BEML component that allowed a player to be controlled via the keyboard. A big step needed to get towards a universally accessible player.

Our latest release introduced a new feature that the design team here is particularly excited about…custom player skins! Now, in addition to our existing styling capabilities, you can replace elements of our players with custom images, providing more fine-grained control over the look and feel of your players. Learn more.

In the following example, I have skinned a number of elements to illustrate the flexibility that custom skins provide. Here is the before and after:

The Brightcove 3 Platform has more than a million and one things you can build on it.   Fact.

Here in the Brightcove Best Practices team we work tirelessly with our publishers and partners to get the most success possible from their online video initiatives. 

When developing with the BC3 Platform we've come across our fair share of helper tools that really helped to accelerate the development process.  I want to share with you 3 of my favourites.

Since launching Brightcove 3, we’ve been committed to continually improving our products to fit our customers’ needs. We’ve conducted over 50 usability sessions and customer interviews since January and each one has directly influenced features and enhancements we’ve built, or plan to build this year. Here’s an overview of our process and some information about how you can get involved:

Who?
You! Usability studies are the best way for us to get input on our products because the feedback comes directly from our customers!

I was chatting with a buddy at one of our smaller broadcast partners and he made an interesting comment to me. As with anything in business, Brightcove's success has brought on a handful of knock-off competitors that claim to do exactly what we do. My pal (VP at this broadcaster) said he recently got a sales call from one of these fledgling firms. After listening to the pitch on how they are just about as good as Brightcove for pennies on the dollar, my buddy politely passed and said he was sticking with Brightcove.