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Andy Budd - How To Become A Better Speaker At Conferences

During my time curating the UX London and Leading Design events, I used to watch a few hundred presentations each year. I’d be looking at a range of things, including the speaker’s domain experience

Guides , Conferences , Career , Events

Dan Redding - The Future Of The Internet

“In only a few short years, electronic computing systems have been invented and improved at a tremendous rate. But computers did not ‘just grow.’ They have evolved… They were born and they are being

future , Inspiration , Web Design

Lee Munroe - The Definitive Guide To Styling Links With CSS

So without links, we’d be lost. We look for them on the page when we want to venture further. Sure, we pause to read a bit, but inevitably we end up clicking a link of some sort. Further Reading on

seo , Web Design , Design

Steven Snell - Redesigning Craigslist With Focus On Usability

Craigslist is obviously one of the most popular websites in the world, and each month it serves millions of users who post and view classified ads on the website. At the time this article was writte

Redesign , ux , Usability

Preethi Sam - Best Of Pro Scheduler Libraries

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Bryntum, who are strong believers in the web as an application platform and provide advanced UI components and dev tools for over 500

workflow , Productivity , Tools

Matt Cronin - Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Web design has come a long way since its beginning, especially in terms of styling. Take a look at a website from 10 years ago and compare it to one from today. The differences are enormous. One of

Showcases , Backgrounds , Inspiration , Web Design

Tom Giannattasio - Brushing Up On The Photoshop Brush Tool

Mastering the digital brush is by no means easy. It carries the same difficulties as the sable brush hidden at the bottom of your art bin. In fact, the difficulty is multiplied by the disconnect bet

Photoshop , Graphics , Brushes

Daniel Yuschick - The Key To Good Component Design Is Selfishness

When developing a new feature, what determines whether an existing component will work or not? And when a component doesn’t work, what exactly does that mean? Does the component functionally not do

react , User Experience , typescript , ui

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Penpot’s Flex Layout: Building CSS Layouts In A Design Tool

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Penpot whose mission is to provide an open-source and open-standards platform to bring collaboration between designers and developers

Tools , Css , Design

Sergey Chikuyonok - How To Optimize PNG

As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. As

optimization , png , Graphics , Design

Victor Yocco - Connecting With Users: Applying Principles Of Communication To UX Research

Communication is in everything we do. We communicate with users through our research, our design, and, ultimately, the products and services we offer. UX practitioners and those working on digital p

User Research , ux , Communication

Sean Hodge - Photoshop Rainbow, Light, and Glow Effect Tutorials

Lighting and glow effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails

Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics

Jad Limcaco - 10 Clever and Effective Series of Advertisements

Companies spend thousands upon thousands of dollars every year in advertisement. Some companies even spend millions of dollars. Print advertisements take up a large portion of those advertising doll

Advertising , Inspiration

Paras Chopra - Multivariate Testing 101: A Scientific Method Of Optimizing Design

In a previous article on Smashing Magazine, I described A/B testing and various resources related to it. I have also covered the basics of multivariate testing in the past, yet in this post I’ll go

testing , Usability , Design

Julia May - Business Card Design Starter Kit: Showcase, Tutorials, Templates

Professionals in any field should always keep business cards on them because you never know when you’ll meet a potential client, partner or like-minded person. Despite their small size, business car

Print , Showcases , Inspiration , Business Cards , Design , Business

Frederick O’Brien - Svelte 5 And The Future Of Frameworks: A Chat With Rich Harris

Svelte occupies a curious space within the web development world. It’s been around in one form or another for eight years now, and despite being used by the likes of Apple, Spotify, IKEA, and the Ne

Techniques , Frameworks , Tools , coding

Kat Neville - Invoice Like A Pro: Design Examples and Best Practices

Your invoice should be prim and proper, so that you can get paid by your clients efficiently. While invoicing is not a fun task, it’s a necessary one: by keeping clients informed of your expectation

Contracts , Invoicing , Clients , Inspiration , Design , Business

Louis Lazaris - The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites

I was pretty excited when I came up with the idea of examining and showcasing some of the most famous beer and alcohol-related websites from a number of countries around the world. After all, who do

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

Luis Ouriach - Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 2)

Since you’re probably coming from Part 1, you may already know that I’ve been living and breathing user interface and product design for just over a decade now and had no one (or to be more exact, v

workflow , Portfolios , Inspiration , Career , Design

Sven Lennartz - Logotrend 2007: Leaves

In 2007 logo-design leaves stand for fresh ideas or - more generally - for an innovative way of thinking. In Web they are mostly used to communicate light-weight solutions as well as clean and unobt

Trends , Graphics , Logo Design