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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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Jad Limcaco - CSS Posters

I’ve always stressed the importance of practice and experimentation. If you want to get better at something or if you want to learn something, you have to keep on doing it over and over again. This

Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Helpful Typography Tools And Resources

To help you improve the typography in your designs, we’re presenting here useful new articles, tools and resources related to typography. You will learn the fundamentals of typography, find out how

Typography , Tools , fonts

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Matt Ward - The Poetics Of Coding

That’s an interesting metaphor. I’ve written about the relationship between these coding languages and proper human language (specifically, English). As someone who graduated from university with a

workflow , coding , Css

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Vitaly Friedman - The Current State of Web Design: Trends 2010

Web design is a fickle industry. Just like every other form of artistic expression, Web design has undergone a continuous and surprisingly fast evolution. Once a playground for enthusiasts, it has n

Trends , Web Design , Design

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Jad Limcaco - 7 Tips for Your Design Job Interview

I’m not the best web designer or graphic designer out there and I don’t claim to be, but I do have experience in getting jobs in the industry. I’ve worked for all kinds of companies since graduating

workflow , Intervews , Career , Skills , Business

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Marco Solazzi - Joomla And WordPress: A Matter Of Mental Models

Open-source content management systems (CMS) are a large family of Web applications, but if we’re looking for stability, performance and average technical requirements, we’ll come up with a handful

wordpress , joomla , cms

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Vitaly Friedman - Vi Cheat Sheet / Linux Terminal Cheat Sheet (PDF)

The cheat sheet contains terminal commands for modes and controls, inserting text, cursor navigation, deleting text, searching and replacing. Download it. Print it. Stick it on the wall and get comm

Cheat Sheets , Downloads , Freebies , Linux , coding , Editors

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Maggie Macnab - Symmetry: A Balancing Act In Two (Or More) Parts

Symmetry is the ordering principle in nature that represents the center of balance between two or more opposing sides. As a fundamental design principle, it permeates everything: from man-made archi

Graphic Design , Design Principles , Design

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Chris Brauckmuller - Grid-Based Web Design, Simplified

A grid at its barest is nothing more than a series of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines spaced at regular intervals, but its innate propensity for creating order out of chaos makes it one o

workflow , Grids , Web Design

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