Design

An illustrated guide on the different ‘resolutions’ of user flows, and when to use them.

It’ll be love at first sight.

Uizard, the future of app development. Transform mobile hand-drawn wireframes automatically to Sketch and download the React Native code! Code less, create more.

Examples of common UI elements and interactions with HTML and CSS alone.

You’ve just finished an incredible course where the instructor has given you a huge range of tools and methodologies to put towards…

This year I’ve been involved in a lot of projects to help large organisations improve the web experience for their customers.

Search through 180 Color Palettes used throughout the last 4000 years.

We humans are quite adept at quickly assessing whatever happens to be in front of us. I’m sure it has something to do with that ancient “fight or flight” response....

Color scale generator by Hayk An

Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug

It's a universal truth that there's more than one meaning to just about every word. This is doubly true for industry lingo. If you're just getting started in web design, you need to know what everything really means, if you want to get ahead. So here it is: here's what the Secret Web Design Illuminati doesn't want you to know. Read this article, and you'll be able to dab on the haters with your hip new slang. Isn't that swell? .htaccess A file that sits on your web server which, if ever touched, is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to break your whole site. AJAX The practice of making al...

In order to create the most usable interfaces, content can’t be an afterthought — words alone can define the experience of an app.

Some basic but helpful reminders

In areas most important to a UI, motion design can and should be simple.

Pink has been wielded as a tool of control for decades, writes professor Julie Irish.

A look back at the biggest prototyping tool updates from design teams over the last year.

Colorbox is a color tool to produce color sets.

The preeminent media scholar and author of The Attention Merchants shares insights on how the design industry can better serve users–and humanity.

As we at the Wall Street Journal kick off a new round of hiring¹, I’m reminded of my least favorite practice in design hiring: the…

At least once every day, some designer somewhere in the world will look at something made months or years ago; failing that, some executive will get the bright idea that they can make their mark on a company and the world by changing something that already exists, instead of making something new. One or both of these people might get this sort of itch in the back of their head, accompanied by a sense of dissatisfaction and ill-defined purpose. The itch will get itchier, the dissatisfaction will grow, and the purpose will begin to form until, one day, they blurt out the words: I think we sho...

In this excerpt from Image Performance, Mat Marquis chronicles the pros and cons of `img` and why we needed something better.

Have you ever wanted to resize a video on the fly, scaling it as you would an image? Using intrinsic ratios for video and some padding property magic, you can. Thierry Koblentz shows us how.

If you need an aspect-ratio sized (or any element that can have children), you can do it. Perhaps the cleanest way is a custom-property-sized

Proposal to add an intrinsicsize attribute to media elements - ojanvafai/intrinsicsize-attribute

I’m not sure who said “Never complain, never explain” (Disraeli? Ford? Google’s not helping much), but it sure does apply to me, as I never heed the advice. Today I posted t…

Let’s build. Open source projects, a sandbox environment and tutorials from our developer squad for experiencing the power of Qlik’s Associative Engine and APIs.

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