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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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Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

Posted by Tom Giannattasio on April 17, 2012 · Comments Off

I recently had the pleasure of organizing this year’s Beercamp website. If you’re unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation. Each year we abandon browser support and throw a “Pshaw” in the face of semantics so that we can play with some emerging features of modern browsers. This [...]

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Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

Posted by Tom Giannattasio on April 17, 2012 · Comments Off

I recently had the pleasure of organizing this year’s Beercamp website. If you’re unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation. Each year we abandon browser support and throw a “Pshaw” in the face of semantics so that we can play with some emerging features of modern browsers. This [...]

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Drop Caps: Historical Use And Current Best Practices With CSS

Posted by Laura Franz on April 3, 2012 · Comments Off

The practice of using a large letter to mark the start of a text has been around for almost two thousand years. Illustrated caps increased usability by marking important passages and guiding readers through the text. Unlike their historic counterparts, drop caps on the Web don’t add value in terms of usability or readability—and they are hard for Web developers [...]

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Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends

Posted by Espen Brunborg on March 15, 2012 · Comments Off

Since Elliot Jay Stocks so poignantly told us to destroy the Web 2.0 look, we’ve witnessed a de-shinification of the Web, with fewer glass buttons, beveled edges, reflections, special-offer badges, vulgar gradients with vibrant colors and diagonal background patterns. The transformation has been welcomed with relief by all but the most hardened gloss-enthusiasts. [...]

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Respect Thy Typography

Posted by Espen Brunborg on March 14, 2012 · Comments Off

Good typography shouldn’t have to rely on ornamental crutches to stand tall. Yet despite all the tools and knowledge available to us, we readily embrace a flourishing, decorative typography, with cheap tricks used in a misguided attempt to make it “pop”. This ancient art may rapidly be gaining popularity, but are we paying it the respect it deserves? Take [...]

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Behind The Scenes Of Tourism New Zealand (Case Study)

Posted by Richard Shepherd on March 8, 2012 · Comments Off

In 2011 we saw the rise in popularity of two relatively new trends: responsive Web design and the use of HTML’s canvas. While some websites had experimented with both, in the last 12 months we’ve seen these trends move from the fringes firmly into the mainstream. Responsive Web design is more a concept than a technology — an ideal that many new websites [...]

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A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites

Posted by Jeremy Girard on February 24, 2012 · Comments Off

As Web designers and developers, each project we work with has a unique set of goals and requirements. But one goal we have for all of our projects is that we want them to make an impression on people — we want the websites that we create to be memorable. A fun experience is often an enjoyable one and an enjoyable experience is usually a memorable one. Therefore, [...]

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Designing For The Mind

Posted by Francisco Inchauste on December 9, 2011 · Comments Off

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Mixing Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques

Posted by David Mottram on December 7, 2011 · Comments Off

In the digital age, don’t forget to use your digits! Your hands are the original digital devices — Lynda Barry People often ask how I arrived at a finished illustration. Honestly, it’s different every time, but it always starts with a hand-drawn sketch. [...]

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