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Cameron Chapman - Meet the Team Pages: Examples and Trends

In any industry where the people behind a company are as important as the company itself, you’re likely to find a kind of expanded “about” page that includes information on individual employees. “Me

Design Patterns , Showcases , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 28 Ideas And Examples Of Amazing Paper Art

The times when paper was considered to be the primary medium for artistic expression is long gone. Many writers and designers use digital media to improvise and develop their ideas. However, there i

Photography , Art , Graphics , Paintings

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Duane Kinsey - Insights Into the Running of a Design Business

When I left my job almost 2 years ago to start my own graphic design business, there were a few, let’s say, surprises. The biggest of which was that the majority of my time was being spent running t

workflow , Skills

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Nick Francis - Web Development For The iPhone And iPad: Getting Started

Sales projections for the Apple iPad run anywhere from one to four million units in the first year. Like it or not, the iPhone OS, and Safari in particular, have become a force to be reckoned with f

mobile , Apps , iphone , ios

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Trent Walton - Connecting The Dots With CSS3

In fact, I’d argue the opposite. Best practices for CSS3 usage need to be hashed out in blog posts, during spare time, and outside of client projects. Coming up with creative and sensible ways to g

css3 , Techniques , coding , Css

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Ken Reynolds - There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Client

Hardly a day goes by without hearing a client horror story from one designer or another. Whether I hear about it in person, by email, over the phone or on Twitter, one thing seems clear: designers s

Clients , Business

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Julia May - Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style

Modern Web-building technologies allow designers to realize their most daring and creative ideas. Enhanced interactivity and a remarkable visual appearance can be achieved by means of such tools as

Inspiration , Web Design , Games , Design

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Cameron Chapman - Website Archives Design: Good Practices and Examples

The archive is one of those often-overlooked parts of a website that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Too often it’s thrown on a page that’s no different from any other page on the website, or

Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 12 Free Icons to Charm Up Your Online Portfolio

Download the icon set for free! You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including so

Portfolios , Icons , Freebies

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Tommy Saylor - Make Your Own Bookmarklets With jQuery

Because they run on JavaScript (a client-side programming language), bookmarklets (sometimes called “favelets”) are supported by all major browsers on all platforms, without any additional plug-ins

coding , jquery

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Michel Bozgounov - Adobe Fireworks: Is It Worth Switching to CS5?

It now has the same standing as other core Adobe products, such as Flash, Flex and Dreamweaver (to the question “Which technical skill sets, if any, will you look to hire or contract in 2010?”, appr

Fireworks , Techniques

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Vitaly Friedman - Web Design Trends 2010: Real-Life Metaphors and CSS3 Adaptation

In our earlier article about Web design trends for 2010 we covered the strong influence of print design techniques, keypress navigation, horizontal layouts, rich typography and aesthetically pleasin

Trends , Web Design , Design

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Luke Reimer - HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die

Use Of Flash Till Now When Flash broke on the scene, it was a fairly revolutionary tool… and much simpler to use than it is today. I first started using it in 1999, when it was being produced by Ma

Flash , Standards , Design , html5

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Jessica Bordeau - Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World

The beauty of typography has no borders. While most of us work with the familiar Latin alphabet, international projects usually require quite extensive knowledge about less familiar writing systems

Calligraphy , Typography , Grapic Design , Design

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Thomas Immich - Resurrecting User Interface Prototypes (Without Creating Zombies)

Every user interface designer is familiar with this procedure to some extent: creating a prototype and evaluating it with potential users to understand how the user interface should look and behave.

ux , Interfaces , Prototyping , ui

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Diogo Terror - _Why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius

Why’s popularity grew along with the Ruby programming language’s popularity. When the Rails hype took off in 2005, a great number of young developers started looking to learn about Ruby, and that’s

Community , workflow , Legacy , Inspiration

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Joshua Johnson - Design A Print-Ready Promotional Ad Using Photoshop and Illustrator

Today, we’ll look at what it’s like to develop print material in cooperation with a major marketing company for top-name brands and retailers using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. For anyone in the

Photoshop , Tutorials , CMYK , Graphics , E-Commerce

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Cameron Chapman - Principles Of Minimalist Web Design

Minimalism is achieved by reducing a design to only the most essential elements. Expressions of minimalism span multiple disciplines, as well as other art forms such as music and literature. For web

Showcases , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 Help Cheat Sheets (PDF)

Today we are glad to release two useful cheat sheets that will help you quickly look up the right CSS 2.1-property or an obscure CSS 3 property. The style sheets contain most important properties, e

Cheat Sheets , Downloads , Css

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ZURB - Case-Study: Deconstructing Popular Websites

In our past articles, we’ve experimented with better ways to engage users on web pages with CSS3. We love getting into the nuts and bolts of web design by showing off some nifty coding tricks. In th

Security , Case Studies , Opinion Column , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Women In Web Design: Group Interview

A couple of weeks ago we published the article Expert Advice for Students and Young Web Designers, in which we presented a group interview with professional designers and developers. We tried to fin

Community , Interviews , Diversity , Design

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Eronarn - Imagine A Pie Chart Stomping On An Infographic Forever

According to statlit.org, statistical literacy is the ability to read and interpret summary statistics in the everyday media: in graphs, tables, statements, surveys and studies. Statistical literacy

Infographics , Design , Data Visualization

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Jad Limcaco - Awesome Mother’s Day Designs

It’s been a while since I’ve posted an inspiration post and I thought I would do one today. Well, I have something special for this post. As we all know, today is Mother’s Day (in the US, not sure a

Inspiration

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Zoe Mickley Gillenwater - Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques

In Modern CSS Layouts, Part 1: The Essential Characteristics, you learned that modern, CSS-based web sites should be progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular, efficient and typogra

Techniques , Layouts , coding , Css , Essentials

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