Mark Murphy quizzes digital designers across communications agency Precedent to come up with a comprehensive list of top Photoshop productivity shortcuts and mixes in some of his own favourites

The grid may be a key element of good web design but you can enhance it by breaking its own rules, says Matthew Smith

Michal Pasternak, partner (user experience) at HUGE, explains how the agency developed a training program for prospective interaction designers and how it changed the company

In the second of our new, weekly comic strips - exclusively created by Brad Colbow - we discover how our attitude towards screens has changed over the years

To celebrate the launch of iOS 5 Newsstand, we're giving away a free copy of our September issue (#219) for a limited time only. Read on to find out how!

Chad Vavra, interaction design director at The Barbarian Group, rounds up 10 key rules that make good interaction designs and designers and that you need to understand before you can break them

In the first of our new, weekly comic strips - exclusively created by Brad Colbow - we look at the design concept that's been the cause of many a headache since the birth of the web: the fold

As new platform versions get released more and more quickly, are users keeping up? Zeh Fernando, a senior developer at Firstborn, looks at current adoption rates and points to some intriguing trends

In part 3 of our cloud series, Dan Frost of 3EV (3ev.com) explores your options when it comes to scaling, and how to choose a cloud hosting provider. In his example he's going to use Scalr, a tool for managing cloud scaling either on a single cloud or across clouds