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Dudley Storey - 5 Powerful Tips And Tricks For Print Style Sheets

Print continues to be treated somewhat cursorily by most Web designers, who tend to be obsessed with pixels rather than printers. In the real world, a significant portion of people rely on pages pri

Print , coding , Css , Browsers , HTML

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Shlomo Goltz - Creating Wireframes And Prototypes With InDesign: Related Resources

This overview features the useful resources related to the article Creating Wireframes And Prototypes With InDesign, written by Shlomo Goltz. Related Resources InDesign as a Wireframing and Protot

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Shlomo Goltz - Creating Wireframes And Prototypes With InDesign

Hundreds of tools may be available for interaction designers, but there is still no industry standard for interaction design the way Photoshop and Illustrator are to graphic design. Popular programs

workflow , Techniques , InDesign , Prototyping , Wireframing , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Videos And Interviews With Brad Frost, Andy Clarke and Nicole Sullivan

In case you are wondering whether Smashing Conference 2013 will take place or not, the answer is a definitive “yes!”, so please make sure to stay tuned to not miss it this year! The videos of the S

Community , Interviews , Inspiration , Events

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Jeremy Girard - Building A Better Responsive Website

Earlier this year, I was in the beginning stages of a redesign for our company’s website. We had already been planning to use a straightforward responsive approach to Web design, which is our prefer

optimization , Responsive Design , mobile

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Rachel McCollin - The WordPress Customizer – A Theme Developer’s Guide

In case you missed it, release 3.4 included a very exciting new development: the WordPress Customizer for Themes. This allows users to tweak theme settings using a WYSIWYG interface and customize th

wordpress , Themes , Techniques (WP)

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Vasilis van Gemert - Logical Breakpoints For Responsive Design

There are several tactics for deciding where to put breakpoints in a responsive design. There is the rusty idea that they should be based on common screen sizes, but this doesn’t scale well. There a

Responsive Design , mobile , Typography , coding

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Chris Noessel - What Sci-Fi Tells Interaction Designers About Gestural Interfaces

One of the most famous interfaces in sci-fi is gestural — the precog scrubber interface used by the Precrime police force in Minority Report. Using this interface, Detective John Anderton uses gestu

Design Patterns , ux , Interfaces

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Zachary Kain and Dennis Gaebel - Typeplate: A Starter Kit For Beautiful Web Type

As of today we’re pleased to announce Typeplate, a free-range and open-source typographic starter kit that will hopefully help you build beautiful, text-rich websites. The word on the stre

Typography , Freebies , fonts

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Gabriele Romanato - The Problem Of CSS Form Elements

Before 1998, the birth year of CSS Level 2, form elements were already widely implemented in all major browsers. The CSS 2 specification did not address the problem of how form elements should be pr

Semantics , coding , Css

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Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser - Creating Exciting And Unusual Visual Hierarchies

Layout, for both print and screen, is one of the most important aspects of graphic design. Designs that extend across multiple pages or screens, whether containing large or small amounts of type, mu

Graphic Design , Typography , Creativity , fonts , Inspiration , Design

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Marek Wolski - There Is No Mobile Internet!

It’s time to stop thinking about the Internet and online communication in the context of a device, be it desktop, tablet or mobile. Advances by Google and Apple have heightened consumer expectations

mobile , Inspiration , Web Design

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Richard Shepherd - Bringing Angry Birds To Facebook

2012 was another landmark year at the Angry Birds aviary, otherwise known as Rovio. The Finnish-based developer not only released a slew of tie-ins — from Green Day to Star Wars — but also went soci

workflow , Interviews , Inspiration , Design

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Maxim Shirshin - The Evolution Of The BEM Methodology

This article is a case study about the evolution of BEM, a methodology that enables team members to collaborate and communicate ideas using a unified language that consists of simple yet powerful te

Frameworks , coding , Css , HTML , Javascript

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Siobhan McKeown - How To Improve And Refine Your WordPress Theme Development Process

There is so much to learn about WordPress theme development. The Internet is home to hundreds of articles about building WordPress themes, to countless theme frameworks that will help you get starte

wordpress , Themes , Techniques (WP)

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Rian van der Merwe - How To Sell Your UX Design Solution To Clients

How do you convince clients to trust you with their valuable and much-loved product? In my experience, the best way to sell work to clients is to apply user-centered design not only to the work we p

Clients , ux , Guidelines , Business

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Louis Lazaris - Using White Space For Readability In HTML And CSS

Right up front, I’ll offer some simple advice: In production, your code should be as performance-friendly as possible. This means, Gzip’ing, concatenating and minifying as many assets as possible, t

coding , Readability , Css , HTML

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Marko Dugonjić - Designing For The Reading Experience

With the rise of web fonts as well as affordable hosted web font services and ready-made kits, typography is reclaiming its title as design queen, ruler of all graphic and web design. At the same t

Graphic Design , Typography , fonts , Readability , Design

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Loren Baxter - How To Design Outstanding Feedback Loops

The products we build are full of feedback loops, whether we know it or not. People who study human behavior agree that feedback loops play a critical role in what we do. From biofeedback to the qua

Interaction Design , ux , Process

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Shlomo Goltz - iOS Prototyping With Adobe Fireworks And TAP (Part 3)

In the previous parts of this tutorial (part 1 and part 2, we looked in detail at the building blocks of our design in Fireworks (pages, shared layers, symbols, styles), and we started to make a dem

Tutorials , Fireworks , Prototyping , ios

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Francisco Inchauste - Designing For A Multi-Device World

When I think about where we are with the Web in comparison to other media in history, pinpointing it is really hard. Is it like when the Gutenberg Press was just invented and we’re experimenting wit

Responsive Design , Process , Opinion Column , Design

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Drew Thomas - Why Responsive Web Design Has To Win Out

When considering a mobile Web strategy and weighing responsive Web design against a separate mobile website, the most important metric is how functional the website is for the user. This goes beyond

Responsive Design , mobile , Content

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Laura Franz - How To Set Weights And Styles With The @font-face Declaration

If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way, keepi

Techniques , Typography , coding , Essentials

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