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Robert Bowen - Web Design Tips for Beginners – Everything I Wish I Knew When I Started

There was such a variety of fine responses that distilling them into a single comprehensive post was difficult, but we managed to do just that (for the most part). So, take a look at some of the bes

Community , workflow , Interviews , Inspiration , Career

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Robert Bowen - The Design Community Offers Its Favorite Bits of Advice

We, members of the design community, are on an ongoing quest for knowledge and learning opportunities—anything we can find to enhance our skills and share the precious pearls of wisdom we’ve held cl

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Helge Fredheim - Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed

A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. Us

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Harry Roberts - Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques

Editor’s Note: This article is a bit out of date — please proceed reading with caution. The Web is 95% typography, or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites lar

Techniques , Typography , coding , Css

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Christian Heilmann - Syncing Content With HTML5 Video

One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few of the boundaries that browsers have been confined to. Instead of restricting user interaction to text, links,

Videos , Techniques , coding , HTML , html5

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Dirk Metzmacher - Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching

I’ll be covering some of the useful techniques and tricks which I’ve learned from my experience. You may know some of them, but hopefully not all of them. All images used in this article were purcha

Photoshop , Techniques , Graphics , Retouching

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Dave Donaldson - 10 Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know

Having written several plugins myself, I’ve come to learn many (but certainly not all) of the ins-and-outs of WordPress plugin development, and this article is a culmination of the things I think ev

wordpress , php , Techniques (WP) , plugins , Essentials

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Jeff Gothelf - Lean UX – Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business

User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content invent

ux , Usability

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David Bushell - In Search Of The Best CAPTCHA

CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. These peculiar puzzles are commonly us

CAPTCHA , Techniques , coding , Essentials

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Ralf Hermann - The @Font-Face Rule And Useful Web Font Tricks

The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts. It surely would be all

Typography , fonts

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2011

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration for the next 12 months. Created by artists across the globe for March 2011. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can b

Wallpapers , Graphics

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Robert Bowen - Why Wait For The Opportunity? Create Your Own!

As many people who work in a creative field like design and development may already know, sometimes our clients just do not understand what it is that we are trying to achieve. The boundaries that w

workflow , Career , Business

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Andrew Maier - Designing For Start-Ups: How To Deliver The Message Across

At least, that’s the idea. Most start-ups tend to take liberties somewhere along the way. Some start-ups begin with a novel business model, whereas others begin with a beautiful design. Still others

ux , Usability

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Richard Shepherd - Using HTML5 To Transform WordPress’ TwentyTen Theme

Somewhat surprisingly, TwentyTen declares the HTML5 doctype but doesn’t take advantage of many of the new elements and attributes that HTML5 brings. Now, HTML5 does many things, but you can’t just

wordpress , Tutorials , Themes , Techniques (WP)

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Jonathan Phillips - How To Become a Better Reader

There are literally dozens of articles online about how to write better articles, but I’ve never come across one with tips on being a better reader. This is a shame, because it’s not all about th

Discussions , Skills , Opinion Column

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Dan Mayer - Examining The Design Process: Clichés And Idea Generation

Where do good ideas come from? It’s a question that matters a great deal to designers, yet seems to be curiously discounted in the common perception of graphic design. Any time I talk with, say, an

Ideas , Ideation , ux , Process , Design , Business

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Jonathan Phillips - How To Become a Better Reader

There are literally dozens of articles online about how to write better articles, but I’ve never come across one with tips on being a better reader. This is a shame, because it’s not all about the w

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Nishant Kothary - Five and a Half Habits of Highly Effective Designers

The bottom line is: we humans love theories. Yet as a wise person once said, “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” This article is about practice. It’s about five

workflow , Productivity , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions

Although CSS isn’t that difficult, useful CSS techniques are not easy to find. Sometimes finding a cross-browser solution might take time, but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every single time.

Techniques , coding , Css , Resources

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Tara Hornor - 10 Useful Typography Tips For Adobe Illustrator

Typography is not only an all-important aspect of design, it is also an art form in and of itself. Choosing the right font, the perfect spacing and even the correct shape of text can be an important

Illustrator , Tutorials , Graphics , Typography

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Eric Meyer - The Bright (Near) Future of CSS

In this article, the focus is on what’s coming: styling techniques you’ll use in the immediate and near-term future. From styling HTML 5 elements to rearranging layout based on display parameters to

Techniques , coding , Css

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Bridget Fahrland - The Design Matrix: A Powerful Tool For Guiding Client Input

I used to think the beginning of a website design project was the best part. Hopes are high. People are full of great ideas. Nobody is disappointed yet. But as I gained experience, I found that lear

Presentations , workflow , Clients , Design , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - Useful Web Services, Tools and Resources For Web Designers

You might have seen some of these tools in our Twitter stream or on our Facebook page, but certainly not all of them. We’ve prepared the most useful ones (yet not necessarily the most beautiful ones

Tools , coding , Resources

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Marc Edwards - Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles

Often, it’s the little details that turn a good layout into a great design; details such as subtle textures, shading and smooth shapes. Photoshop contains a vast array of tools for embellishing a de

Photoshop , Techniques , Graphics

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