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The Perfect Paragraph

Posted by Heydon Pickering on November 29, 2011 · Comments Off

In this article, I’d like to reacquaint you with the humble workhorse of communication that is the paragraph. Paragraphs are everywhere. In fact, at the high risk of stating the obvious, you are reading one now. Despite their ubiquity, we frequently neglect their [...]

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Exporting From Photoshop

Posted by Marc Edwards on November 23, 2011 · Comments Off

Congratulations. You’ve just completed a pixel-perfect mock-up of an app, and you’ve gotten the nod from everyone on the team. All that’s left to do is save the tens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of production assets required to bring it to life. It’s [...]

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The Big Think: Breaking The Deliverables Habit

Posted by Robert Hoekman Jr on November 22, 2011 · Comments Off

Right there in the center of my boilerplate for design proposals is a section that I glare at with more resentment each time I complete it. It’s called “Deliverables,” and it’s there because clients expect it: a list of things I’ll deliver for the amount [...]

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The Big Think: Breaking The Deliverables Habit

Posted by Robert Hoekman Jr on November 22, 2011 · Comments Off

Right there in the center of my boilerplate for design proposals is a section that I glare at with more resentment each time I complete it. It’s called “Deliverables,” and it’s there because clients expect it: a list of things I’ll deliver for the amount [...]

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Fluidity Of Content And Design: Learning From Where The Wild Things Are

Posted by Sarah Bauer on November 17, 2011 · Comments Off

Have you read Where the Wild Things Are? The storybook has fluidity of content and design figured out. It goes that one night, protagonist Max “wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind or another.” He hammers nails into walls, pesters a small dog. Author [...]

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The Data-Pixel Approach To Improving User Experience

Posted by Rian van der Merwe on November 15, 2011 · Comments Off

There are many ways to skin a redesign (I think that’s how the saying goes). On a philosophical level, I agree with those who advocate for realigning, not redesigning, but these are mere words when you’re staring a design problem in the face with no idea where [...]

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Redesigning The Country Selector

Posted by Christian Holst on November 10, 2011 · Comments Off

The country selector. It’s there when you create an account for a new Web service, check out of an e-commerce store or sign up for a conference. The normal design? A drop-down list with all of the available countries. However, when conducting a large session [...]

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Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop

Posted by Steve Schoeffel on November 9, 2011 · Comments Off

Creating a grid is typically one of the very first things you do when starting a design comp. After all, it provides the basic structure on which the rest of your design will lie. In this article, we’ll provide two different methods for efficiently establishing [...]

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The Role Of Design In The Kingdom Of Content

Posted by Jason Gross on October 24, 2011 · Comments Off

If content sits at the top of the food chain, why do we spend so much time talking about the finer points of design? Every day we debate, experiment with and discuss topics that easily fall into the category of aesthetics, enhanced functionality and layout; in [...]

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How To Build An Agile UX Team: The Culture

Posted by Jeff Gothelf on October 18, 2011 · Comments Off

This is the first in a three-part series on how to build and grow successful user experience teams in agile environments. It covers challenges related to organization, hiring and integration that plague UX teams in these situations. The perspective is that of a [...]

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