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  • Mobile prototyping: a new paradigm

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    Mobile prototyping: a new paradigm

    Can traditional prototyping techniques be used for mobile app design?

    28 Jan 2013

    By Alexis Piperides on | 1 comment
    Designers and UX professionals use design techniques like sketches, wireframes and mockups to visualise a website during the design process. Can these web design techniques also be used for mobile app design - or is it time for change?
  • Interaction design lessons from sci-fi: Visual interfaces

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    Interaction design lessons from sci-fi: Visual interfaces

    Futuristic interface design lessons you can use in your own work

    25 Jan 2013

    By Chris Noessel and Nathan Shedroff on | 3 comments
    Make it so is a book for interface designers interested in understanding sci-fi's role in design history and using sci-fi interfaces in their own work. Here we present an exclusive excerpt on visual design, with a focus on typography
  • 2012 into 2013: web standards in perspective

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    2012 into 2013: web standards in perspective

    Chris Mills on the most exciting web standards developments of 2012

    23 Jan 2013

    By Chris Mills on
    Chris Mills looks back at most exciting web standards developments of 2012, and looks ahead to what we can expect in 2013
  • The pro's guide to CSS layouts

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    The pro's guide to CSS layouts

    Peter Gasston offers a snapshot of the future for CSS layouts

    21 Jan 2013

    By Peter Gasston on
    CSS’s next big challenge is to make flexible, dynamic page layouts that work across our ever-broadening range of devices. With solutions proposed and under discussion, Peter Gasston offers a snapshot of the future
  • Five killer ways to use contingency

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    Five killer ways to use contingency

    It’s important to plan for failure so that you’re able to fail well

    21 Jan 2013

    By Gene Crawford on
    It’s important to plan for failure so that you’re able to fail well, says Gene Crawford
  • Adaptable content

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    Adaptable content

    We present an exclusive excerpt of Content Everywhere

    18 Jan 2013

    By Sara Wachter-Boettcher on | 2 comments
    Sara Wachter-Boettcher's book, Content Everywhere, went on sale just before the holidays. We present an exclusive excerpt that looks into creating content for responsive and adaptive experiences
  • Five search marketing trends in 2013

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    Five search marketing trends in 2013

    2013 search strategies: What can we expect to see more of next year?

    16 Jan 2013

    By Kelvin Newman on | 4 comments
    Kelvin Newman, director at SiteVisibility, shares his top five trends for search marketing in 2013
  • Top 10 beginner programming mistakes

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    Top 10 beginner programming mistakes

    Game developer and lecturer Iain Lobb on the top pitfalls to avoid

    14 Jan 2013

    Game developer and lecturer Iain Lobb outlines the top 10 pitfalls that he sees beginners stumbling into time and again
  • Big question: Baseline grid or modular scale?

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    Big question: Baseline grid or modular scale?

    We liked Branch's question, so we turned it over to our experts

    10 Jan 2013

    By Tanya Combrinck on | 1 comment
    ‘Baseline grid or modular scale? Both? Neither?’ enquired a recent thread on Branch. We liked the question – so we turned it over to our panel of experts
  • New tools for web design and development: December 2012

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    New tools for web design and development: December 2012

    Mark Penfold collates the best new tools of December

    9 Jan 2013

    By Mark Penfold on | 2 comments
    Translate your InDesign comps into functioning web pages, try a new HTML5 game engine and check out the new version of Firebug. All this and more in Mark Penfold's latest round-up
  • 20 top web design and development trends for 2013

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    20 top web design and development trends for 2013

    Craig Grannell talks to industry movers about 2013's defining trends

    7 Jan 2013

    Predicting the future is tough, but with the fast-moving nature of the web, it’s good to know what lies ahead. Craig Grannell talks to top industry figures about the web design and development trends you should be mindful of over the coming 12 months
  • Make the perfect portfolio

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    Make the perfect portfolio

    Get a portfolio! Or take a fresh look at your existing one!

    4 Jan 2013

    By Gary Marshall on | 4 comments
    If you don’t have a portfolio, you should – and if you do, perhaps you ought to take a fresh look at it, reckons Gary Marshall
  • Seven New Year's resolutions for designers in 2013

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    Seven New Year's resolutions for designers in 2013

    Oliver Reichenstein confesses all in his guide to being a sin-free web

    2 Jan 2013

    By Oliver Reichenstein on
    Growing and improving as a web designer is all about being honest with yourself. Oliver Reichenstein presents his unique take on the questions we should all be asking
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