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… a Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development […] a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.

High quality patterns for your next web project. License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

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open source CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders

«[…] The more I work with flexible images & grids and media queries, the more I appreciate what can be achieved. […]»

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“How did you do that?” My colleague Leigh sounded impressed. He had been working with a problem client for weeks trying to get design approval. Then I came along and was able to get signed-off in a single conference call. “Can you teach me how you did that?” he asked. I mumbled something about years of experience, but the truth was I didn’t have a clue. It just seems I can find design approval easier than most.

using a drop shadow to create a simple one-pixel offset to be a flexible and quick way to achieve an effect of depth

Explore this photo album by Bruce Jamieson on Flickr!

A resource containing hundreds of web icons, for use on personal and commercial websites through a drag and drop interface.

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Typesetter & Font Viewer for iOS - Simple, colorful typesetter and font viewer for iOS. Render beautiful custom text with the built-in system fonts. Upgrade to use your own custom fonts.

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!

Just another awesome WordPress.com theme

… an Automattic-produced theme designed and developed by the Theme Team which, apart from the custom possibilities you’re acquainted with in most of our themes — features like custom backgrounds, headers, and menus — is also equipped with a custom Showcase Page Template that can propel your site up to a new level.

Presentation video for the SXSW "Excellence in Title Design" competition screening.

Usability is ridiculously important to your website. It doesn't matter how cool your website looks or how amazing your content is if visitors can't quickly, easily, and enjoyably access and use it. Many of them will eventually just give up and look elsewhere. So how do you make your website as usable as possible? Well, you're in luck, because this article features 20 usability tips for your website. Technology will always change, thus changing the usability tips. So make sure you share your own tips and tricks with the rest of us.

Porn for book lovers. A photo blog collection of all the best bookshelf photos from around the world for people who *heart* bookshelves.

Der New Yorker Designer Karl Zahn hat mit Slide eine Pendelleuchte entworfen, bei der man nicht nur die Helligkeit, sondern auch den Lichtkegel steuern kann. Die Metallspangen werden durch ein umlaufendes Band zusammen gehalten und je nach Position wird der Schirm geöffnet oder geschlossen. (via Stilsucht.de)

The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed. Free textbooks written by more than 100 leading designers, bestselling authors, and Ivy League professor...

… a huge FREE icon set containing over a 1,000+ icons, all in a vector-shaped Photoshop format.