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Height is often overlooked in responsive design. On mobile, pages can get pretty long. Should we address this?

Designlab is a part-time, online course that helps you improve your UI/UX design skills through 1-on-1 mentorship from an expert designer.

You want the best possible employees to your team, and it seems like the more skills that they have, the better candidate they are.

Using Chemistry + Design To Build Interfaces 🔬 🖌️ 🖥️

If you’ve been building websites and applications for even a little while, you’ve most likely already heard of progressive enhancement. The idea has been around since 2003, it’s one that is often conf…

How it works is more important than how it looks

The one piece of advice to instantly improve your design skills.

Nolan, who’s been leading a lot of our product design decisions, shared this idea in our Slack channel the other day as we reviewed our next product design iteration: One of the typical challenges…

How to make your navigation obvious and keep people engaged

Mobile-first is a standard for a reason, but don't let a dogmatic approach sacrifice creativity.

We take a look at the navigation elements that are making UIs easier to use this year.

Although navigation design is always going to be an ongoing debate, there are a few best practices that every user experience designer in 2017 should adhere to for website navigation. Stephanie Lim shows us a few to stand by!

Mobile-first is not specific enough to user needs. Learn more about journey-driven design and how it emerges from a user-centered approach.

See how you can design scalable, responsive logos without losing the very personality of your brand in this responsive logo design & branding guide!

Sparkbox is a team of web designers and developers based in the midwest and answering the call for a better web. Driven by a deep conviction in a web liberated from device constraints, Sparkbox leads the way toward a greater standard as we write, educate,

Component Based Design is often talked about in context of large, complex projects. In this post we’re making the case that it can also be…

Designlab is a part-time, online course that helps you improve your UI/UX design skills through 1-on-1 mentorship from an expert designer.

HTML Color Picker Click on the image to get the html codes.. Use the online image color picker right to select a color and get the html Color Code of this pixel. Also you get the HEX value, RGB value ...

With the magic of HTML5 you can get colors from any image with this simple online tool. To use this new color tool it's recomended that you upgrade your web browser to the latest version. (For the ful...

...for all who love color.

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In 2011, Elaine McVicar wrote an article describing the process of designing one of the first complex responsive sites. Now that the concept is no longer in its infancy, we're taking another look at how to redesign a large scale responsive site.

Photoshop extensions, tools and resources for designers

Responsive video backgrounds are pretty popular at the moment. Here's how I made mine...

HTML email: Two words that, when combined, brings tears to a developer's eyes. If you're a web developer, it's inevitable that coding an email will be a task that gets dropped in your lap at some time...

Web design has come a long, long way since the 1990s, when things like GeoCities and AOL dominated the Internet. Design itself has evolved, along with a deeper understanding of principles like usabili...

In many projects, responsive images aren’t a technical issue but a strategic concern. Can we automate art-direction at all? Sure, here's a solution.

Free vector graphics editor. A simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool for everyone.

A conversation about the past, present, and future state of responsive web design with special guests Ethan Marcotte and Karen McGrane hosted by Aquent Gymnasium on December 8, 2016.

Here is a look at Louis Lazaris' favorite front-end tools of 2016!