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Melanie Lang - 75 Instructive Design Case Studies

Not only are case studies a great way to explain the design process of an agency, but they also help designers and developers to learn from each other. Seeing how designers work, create, build and p

Graphic Design , Inspiration , Web Design , Case Studies

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Paul Boag - So You Want To Write A Digital Strategy?

“Can you put together a digital strategy for us to review?” Requests like this strike fear into those of us who work on the Web. What do we know about putting together strategy documents? Yes, we un

workflow , Product Strategy , Design , Business

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Dmitry Fadeyev - Authentic Design

The recently popularized flat interface style is not merely a trend. It is the manifestation of a desire for greater authenticity in design, a desire to curb visual excess and eliminate the fake and

Graphic Design , ux , Content , Usability , Web Design , Design

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Laura Coyle - The Joy Of Illustrated Maps In The Era Of Google Earth

Update (01.08.2013) Please note that this article has been updated and now references to OpenStreetMap. In my career as a freelance illustrator, map-making has become a favorite specialty of mine.

Illustrator , workflow , Graphics , Design

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Jeremy Olson - Tale Of A Top-10 App, Part 2: Marketing And Launch

Our anticipation was building. Between defining our language translation app, sketching it out, obsessively designing and iterating, and juggling other projects — all covered in the first part of ou

Marketing , mobile , Apps , Case Studies , ios , Business

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Shavaughn Haack - Creative And Innovative Navigation Designs

A website has a personality — it is a reflection of the person or organization behind it. When people visit your website, you want it to stand out from the crowd, to be memorable. You want people to

Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design , Design

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Artiom Dashinsky - Retinize It: Free Photoshop Action For Slicing Graphics For HD Screens

High-definition (or “Retina”) displays have spread wider and wider, and evidently their numbers will keep growing. So, as creators of products that will be consumed on Retina devices, we have to opt

Photoshop , Graphics , Freebies

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Sherri Alexander - Choosing A Responsive Image Solution

If you code websites, it’s a good bet that at least one of your clients has asked about or requested a mobile-friendly website. If you go the responsive design route (whereby your website is flexibl

Techniques , Responsive Design , mobile , jquery

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Jeremy Olson - Tale Of A Top-10 App, Part 1: Idea And Design

My name is Jeremy Olson. I’m a senior in college, living in Charlotte, North Carolina, and this is the story of how my little app beat Angry Birds. I’m writing this because I believe we learn much

Marketing , mobile , Apps , Case Studies , ios , Business

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Martin Gittins - How To Build A Portable Design Toolkit

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the staggering array of resources and options available to designers. In this article, we’ll explore the idea of consciously restricting yourself to a set of core too

Graphic Design , Techniques , Tools , Inspiration , Design

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Paul Boag - Taming The Email Beast

In the 1950s, when consumer electronics such as vacuum cleaners and washing machines emerged, there was a belief that household chores would be done in a fraction of the time. We know now it didn’t

workflow , Productivity , Emails , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: July 2013

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a m

Wallpapers , Graphics , templates

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Nathan Barry - How To Launch Anything

Launching a new product — especially your first — can be incredibly daunting. Even knowing where to turn for help can be hard. So many blog posts are full of free advice on how to successfully launc

Community , Marketing , Income , Business

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Daniel Pataki - How To Create A Twitter Widget

Twitter needs no introduction. It has become the way to reach audiences for some people and companies and a place to hang out for others. Placing a Twitter feed on one’s website has almost become co

wordpress , workflow , Techniques , Techniques (WP) , Widgets

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Jeff Eaton - When Editors Design – Controlling Presentation In Structured Content

Thanks to the skyrocketing popularity of mobile devices, a new generation of designers and CMS developers has found the religion of Structured Content. Once the domain of semantic markup purists and

Content , cms , coding , Content Strategy

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Adham Dannaway - My (Simple) Workflow To Design And Develop A Portfolio Website

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… a young designer embarked on an epic journey strewn with perilous layout challenges, constant procrastination, devious jQuery errors and deadly Internet Ex

workflow , Portfolios , Responsive Design , Web Design , Case Studies

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Tyson Matanich - Media Queries Are Not The Answer: Element Query Polyfill

Responsive Web design has transformed how websites are designed and built. It has inspired us to think beyond device classifications and to use media queries to adapt a layout to the browser’s viewp

Responsive Design , coding , Css

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Lennart Hennigs - How To Sketch For Better Mobile Experiences

Mobile user experience design is maturing. One way to gauge this is to look at the tools at our disposal. Prototyping tools such as Balsamiq, Axure and Fireworks enable us to build wireframes and cl

Sketching , ux , Interfaces , ui

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Woody Payne - WordPress Functions To Make Blogging Easier

In this article, we’ll share a few helpful functions that use WordPress default code to modify or enhance a blog’s behavior. By relying on default code, we can program changes that will work in all

wordpress , Functions , Shortcodes , Techniques

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Robert Hoekman Jr - 13 Tenets Of User Experience

In my career as a user experience professional, part of my purpose has always been to help push our profession forward. And I’ve had the great privilege of being able to do just that in a myriad of

Navigation , ux , Guidelines

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Bea Kylene Jumarang - 18 Email Templates For Web Designers And Developers (PDF, ODT, TXT)

You know how it goes: you are facing a difficult situation with a client, and you aren’t quite sure how to respond to it to navigate the conversation into a meaningful direction. This is where email

Freebies , templates , Emails , Business

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Joseph Alessio - Making Sense Of Type Classification (Part 2)

In the first installment of this two-part series on type classification, we covered the basics of type classification — the various methods people have used, why they are helpful, and a brief survey

Graphic Design , Typography , fonts , Inspiration , Web Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Creative Photos From Our Readers And A PDF-Poster

Three weeks ago we launched a photo contest and asked everyone to submit a creative picture of the object that fuels their creativity and inspiration. For all of you who have participated, thank you

Photography , Inspiration , Contests

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Matt Gibson - Adapting To A Responsive Design (Case Study)

This is the story of what we learned during a redesign for our most demanding client — ourselves! In this article, I will explain, from our own experience of refreshing our agency website, why we ab

Techniques , Responsive Design , mobile , Case Studies

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