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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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Vitaly Friedman - 200 Food Icons To Beef Up Your Designs [Freebie]

Today we are pleased to feature a set of 200 useful and beautiful foodie icons. This freebie was created by the team behind Freepik, and at the time of writing it’s the largest set of food icons ava

Wallpapers , Icons , Freebies

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Bill Beard - 5 Ways To Prevent Bad Microcopy

You’ve just created the best user experience ever. You had the idea. You sketched it out. You started to build it. Except you’re already in trouble, because you’ve forgotten something: the copy. Spe

Interaction Design , ux , Copywriting

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Tommy Walker - What Leap Motion And Google Glass Mean For Future User Experience

Editor's note: Please note that this article explores an entirely hypothetical scenario, and these are opinions, some of which you may not agree with. However, the opinions are based on current t

Interaction Design , ux , Usability , Opinion Column

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Sacha Greif - Building An App In 45 Minutes With Meteor

The other day, I finally accomplished one of my long-standing goals: to go from one of those “Wouldn’t it be cool…” ideas to a working, live app in less than 1 hour. 45 minutes, actually. It all st

mobile , Apps , Web Design , Javascript

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Lars Kappert - Facing The Challenge: Building A Responsive Web Application

We are talking and reading a lot about responsive Web design (RWD) these days, but very little attention is given to Web applications. Admittedly, RWD still has to be ironed out. But many of us beli

Techniques , Responsive Design , mobile , Apps

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Alex Sexton - The Front-End Operations Engineer

When a team builds a complex application, there is often a common breakdown of roles. Specifically on the back end, there are database engineers, application engineers and operations engineers, or s

workflow , Productivity , Teams , Web Design , Business

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Addy Osmani - Gone In 60 Frames Per Second: A Pinterest Paint Performance Case Study

Today we’ll discuss how to improve the paint performance of your websites and Web apps. This is an area that we Web developers have only recently started looking at more closely, and it’s important

performance , Responsive Design , Case Studies , Design

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Estelle Weyl - How To Solve Adaptive Images In Responsive Web Design

Adaptive images are the current hot topic in conversations about adaptive and responsive Web design. Why? Because no one likes any of the solutions thus far. New elements and attributes are being di

Responsive Design , coding , Css , svg

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Vitaly Friedman - Smells Like Summer: 28 Fresh Desktop Wallpaper Calendars For June

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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Stéphanie Walter - The State Of Responsive Web Design

Responsive Web design has been around for some years now, and it was a hot topic in 2012. Many well-known people such as Brad Frost and Luke Wroblewski have a lot of experience with it and have help

Techniques , Responsive Design , mobile

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Daniel Pataki - Tips And Tricks For Testing WordPress Themes

Whether you offer free or premium themes, testing should be a major part of your development process. By planning in advance, you can foster a development environment that deters some bugs by design

wordpress , Techniques , Themes , Techniques (WP)

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Anselm Hannemann - Open Device Labs: Why Should We Care?

With all of the different smartphones, tablets and other devices that sport various operating systems and versions thereof, a Web developer’s job — testing (sometimes virtually) on multiple devices

Community , Tools , testing , Web Design , Design

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Pete Smart - 50 Design Problems In 50 Days: Real Empathy For Innovation (Part 1)

I recently travelled 2517 miles to try to solve 50 problems in 50 days using design — a journey that would challenge me to fundamentally rethink my understanding of the user-experience design proces

User Research , ux , Prototyping

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Thomas Joos - Beyond The Button: Embracing The Gesture-Driven Interface

As a mobile UI or UX designer, you probably remember the launch of Apple’s first iPhone as if it was yesterday. Among other things, it introduced a completely touchscreen-centered interaction to a i

Interaction Design , ux , Interfaces , Usability

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Wilson Page - Building The New Financial Times Web App (A Case Study)

Update (10.10.2013): Good news: according to recent tests, Flexbox layout isn’t slow any longer. Author’s comments about the performance of Flexbox refer to the original (legacy) flexbox that used d

flexbox , Techniques , Responsive Design , coding , Css

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David Storey - Flexbox Is As Easy As Pie: Designing CSS Layouts

Flexbox (or flexible box layout) is a new box model optimized for UI layout. As one of the first CSS modules designed for actual layout (floats were really meant mostly for things such as wrapping t

flexbox , Tools , Layouts , coding , Css

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Christian Holst - Exploring 10 Fundamental Aspects Of M-Commerce Usability

Everyone is talking about mobile. Some e-commerce websites are venturing into it. Mobile commerce (also known as “m-commerce”) has immense potential, exhibiting a 86% growth rate and hitting $25 bil

User Research , ux , Usability

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