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Design Language: The Organic Ambigram

Posted by Maggie Macnab on November 15, 2012 · Comments Off

The ambigram is one of the few modern letterforms that engage both your intellect and intuition simultaneously. It reads as a word while also communicating a deeply familiar pattern. This is something beyond the ambigram’s obviously clever construction. I’ve thought quite a bit about why I love this word-image hybrid, and I’ll set out here to uncover just [...]

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Useful Talks And Videos From Web Design Conferences

Posted by Smashing Editorial on November 9, 2012 · Comments Off

As a Web professional, you can get great inspiration from a good conference session. While conferences may not bring value to all industries, the Web industry is stacked high with inspirational experts and quiet little geniuses beavering away from small home offices. A good Web conference shines a light on these clever souls and promotes professional growth and [...]

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Navigation Patterns: Exploration Of Single-Page Websites

Posted by Steven Bradley on November 5, 2012 · Comments Off

We tend to think of navigating a website as clicking from page-to-page via some kind of global navigation that’s always visible. When it comes to a single page, we often think scrolling is the one and only way to move from one end to the next. Sometimes global navigation and scrolling are the best, most appropriate ways to move about, (however, they aren’t [...]

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Community Strength: The Immersive Web And Design Writing

Posted by Rian van der Merwe on October 18, 2012 · Comments Off

I have an idea for a new product — can I tell you about it? It will take months to develop, and even though this kind of thing is usually given away for free, I’m going to charge for it. Oh, and the market for it probably won’t be very big… Wait, come back! Where are you going?! It does sound like a crazy idea, but it’s exactly what a small group [...]

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Community Strength: The Immersive Web And Design Writing

Posted by Rian van der Merwe on October 18, 2012 · Comments Off

I have an idea for a new product — can I tell you about it? It will take months to develop, and even though this kind of thing is usually given away for free, I’m going to charge for it. Oh, and the market for it probably won’t be very big… Wait, come back! Where are you going?! It does sound like a crazy idea, but it’s exactly what a small group [...]

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Encouraging Better Client Participation In Responsive Design Projects // Design Process

Posted by Andy Clarke on September 28, 2012 · Comments Off

Last week at the fabulous Smashing Conference in Freiburg, I gave a new talk, one I’d written just a few hours prior. I chose not to use slides, but instead to speak about three things that I’m incredibly enthusiastic about: Responsive design is not (just) a design or development problem; The client participation process is broken; How to call your client [...]

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Typography Carved In Stone // Design Process

Posted by Anne Brady on September 20, 2012 · Comments Off

Every name here is a tragic story of loss and heartbreak. The Garda Memorial Garden, or Gairdín Cuimhneacháin an Gharda Síochána, is located in the heart of Dublin city. This memorial is a contemplative garden with large stone plinths and a lot of names and numbers. The list of names, this “roll of honor,” records individual police officers (gardaí) who [...]

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One More Time: Typography Is The Foundation Of Web Design

Posted by Paul Scrivens on July 24, 2012 · Comments Off

For years you have been searching for it. You hear the question being asked in your dreams as you go on an Indiana-Jones-type-crusade to find the answer. When the answer comes to you, you know that the confetti will fall from the ceiling and the band will start playing your favorite song. You might even get a kiss from that special someone. So what is this question? What [...]

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Are You Giving Your Users Positive Feedback?

Posted by Paul Boag on July 17, 2012 · Comments Off

We love to tell users that they have done something wrong. We have error messages for everything from poorly formatted telephone numbers to incorrect logins. But what about our user’s successes, do we celebrate them? Do we tell them they are doing something right? It is as important to tell users that they are doing things right, as it is to inform them when [...]

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Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites

Posted by Bruce Lawson on April 19, 2012 · Comments Off

There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobile device so fundamentally different that you should make different websites for it, or is there only one Web that we access using a variety of different devices? Acclaimed usability pundit Jakob [...]

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