Free Download: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms
The T-Model and Strategies for Hiring IA Practitioners: Part 1
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Web Forms How-To Part 1: Simplicity
Keep signup forms simple and fast, and delegate as much as possible.
Content Prototyping In Responsive Web Design
Michelangelo once said, "The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself." Translate this to the world of Web design and you might say, "No matter how great a designer you are, you’re only as good as your content." While the reality of client work sometimes makes it challenging to gather and produce content prior to starting the design, this is now widely accepted as being necessary.
News Redux
«Digital news is broken. Actually, news itself is broken. Almost all news organizations have abandoned reporting in favor of editorial; have cultivated reader opinion in place of responsibility; and have traded ethical standards for misdirection and whatever consensus defines as forgivable. And this is before you even lay eyes on what passes for news design on a monitor or device screen these days. […]»
Following A Web Design Process
This article tries to show how developing a process for Web design can organize a developer's thoughts, speed up a project's timeline and prepare a freelance business for growth. First of all, what exactly is a 'process'? A **Web development process** is a documented outline of the steps needed to be taken from start to finish in order to complete a typical Web design project.
Fit To Scale
«[…] The more I work with flexible images & grids and media queries, the more I appreciate what can be achieved. […]»
Barrierefreiheit: Mehrfachkennzeichnung in der Praxis – Teil 2
Barrierefreiheit: Mehrfachkennzeichnung in der Praxis – Teil 1
The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page
Create high converting landing pages with this guide. From content to layout, you'll find everything you need to design the best landing page design. Learn more!
WSC6
White and silver WP Theme
Lectures, Screencasts and conferences for real web developers & designers
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Sticky Notes with CSS3
Ben the Bodyguard – A Frenchman Protecting Your Secrets.
Protecting your passwords, photos, contacts and other sensitive stuff on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Wichtige Bausteine erfolgreicher Facebook-Fanseiten
Google Font Directory
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers.
50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers
There are tools that make our lives much easier. However, finding those obscure time-savers which would save time in every single project isn't easy and requires a lot of time. At Smashing Magazine, we are regularly looking for such useful tools, gather them, review them and eventually prepare for a truly smashing round-up. Such posts are quite lengthy and extensive, but they are always worth checking out.
HTML5 For Web Designers
… «In this brilliant and entertaining user’s guide, Jeremy Keith cuts to the chase, with crisp, clear, practical examples, and his patented twinkle and charm.» (eBook and/or paperback)
Why you should not use a flag as a symbol of language
Responsive Web Design
Designers have coveted print for its precision layouts, lamenting the varying user contexts on the web that compromise their designs. Ethan Marcotte advocates we shift our design thinking to approp…
MephoBox | Web Design and Web Inspiration
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Designing for the Web
Shalom! Showcase Of Web Design In Israel
Israel is a young country with an old heart. It has been quickly built up over the last 60 years as an independent democratic Jewish state and is shockingly cutting edge for a country so new. What’s unique about Israeli web design?
Web Design Criticism: A How-To
I had the opportunity to work with some very talented and highly experienced designers who all had made the jump from other design fields to the Web. It was there, as part of that training, that I learned about **critiquing**, both giving and receiving, through regular design reviews.
Applying Mathematics To Web Design
“Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies. In fact, one of the greatest ancient philosophers, Aristotle, said: “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”
… Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, …
Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others.
… tutorials you should have read in january 2010
Soma FontFriend
a bookmarklet for typographically obsessed web designers. It enables rapid checking of fonts and font styles directly in the browser without editing code and refreshing pages. 2.0’s killer feature is instant drag-and-drop font previewing right in the browser (Firefox 3.6+ only), in any document you’re currently viewing.
40 Incredible Vintage Websites
Here, you’ll find 40 of the most incredibly well designed vintage web sites. In reality, of course, they’re only vintage at the most superficial of levels. Peel back the vintage veneer and you’ll find cutting edge web development and design processes have been employed.
Make Your Mockup in Markup
»We aren’t designing copies of web pages, we’re designing web pages.«