There are a lot of badly designed forms out there, but whether you like them or not, forms are essential. Joe Leech, user experience director at cxpartners, presents the lessons he wishes he'd learnt before he began designing forms

In the second of his regular roundups, Mark Penfold looks at another 10 brand new releases that will make life easier for web designers and developers

Our panel of experts discuss the advantages and disadvantages of designing in the browser as opposed to Photoshop

If you’re regularly on the move, modern mobile apps enable you to do real work rather than twiddle your thumbs on a train. We unearth the top 20 apps for those in the industry

This week Brad Colbow looks at all the fun web designers have when dealing with shopping carts on ecommerce sites

Laurence McCahill, design lead and co-founder of Spook Studio, spills the beans on the Lean Startup and Lean UX movements, which bring a groundbreaking approach to product development, and what it means for designers, developers and clients

Bruce Lawson, open web standards evangelist for Opera, looks at some nifty new browser technologies that are not part of HTML5, including WebGL and SVG

This week Brad Colbow's exclusive comic strip explores the realities of streamlining a designer's process

Mike Kapetanovic asks 12 developers for their favourite add-ons for Expression Engine