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by Tanya Combrinck

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Content strategy 101, Part 3: put knowledge into action

by Sandi Wassmer

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Facebook’s top 10 social design secrets

by Paul Adams

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Designer says 'stop using Helvetica and Arial'

Instamojo co-founder thinks too many use typefaces without asking why

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Blog

Big Mouth: Not so fast, internet

Online eyeballs are fast and fickle; we should slow things down a bit

30 Jan 2013

By Gary Marshall on January 30, 2013 | 1 comment

Online eyeballs are fast and fickle. Gary Marshall reckons we should slow things down a bit and appreciate the things that are racing before us
Feature

5 things you didn't know Sublime Text 2 could do

Alastair Lockie takes us off the beaten track to find some hidden gems

30 Jan 2013

By Alastair Lockie on January 30, 2013 | 2 comments

Sublime Text is packed with features, but some are more well known than others. Alastair Lockie takes us off the beaten track to find some hidden gems in this powerful editor
Interview

Dan Mall on The Businessology Show

Dan Mall's new podcast about the business of running a design practice

29 Jan 2013

By Tanya Combrinck on January 29, 2013

Dan Mall and Jason Blumer have started a new podcast about the business of running a design practice
Feature

The best image compression tools

Save bandwidth and accelerate your site's performance

29 Jan 2013

By Mike Williams on January 29, 2013 | 3 comments

Save bandwidth and accelerate your site's performance with these powerful free tools
Feature

Five killer ways to use parallax

It’s important to build visuals around your narrative to engage users

28 Jan 2013

By Gene Crawford on January 28, 2013 | 5 comments

It’s important to build visuals around your narrative to engage users, says Gene Crawford
Feature

Mobile prototyping: a new paradigm

Can traditional prototyping techniques be used for mobile app design?

28 Jan 2013

By Alexis Piperides on January 28, 2013 | 2 comments

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?
Feature

The .net strip #29: Stupid autocorrect

Brad Colbow on the bane of mobile devices

25 Jan 2013

By Brad Colbow on January 25, 2013

Brad Colbow on the bane of mobile devices
Feature

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 January 25, 2013 | 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
Blog

<img>s are content too

Images aren’t just there for decoration; they have meaning too

24 Jan 2013

By James Fenton on January 24, 2013 | 1 comment

Images aren’t just there for decoration; they have meaning too – so make sure your choices have context, says James Fenton
Tutorial

Using PHP Data Objects

Daniel Lewis explains how to put the PDO library into practice

24 Jan 2013

By Daniel Lewis on January 24, 2013 | 1 comment

The PHP Data Objects library provides a consistent foundation for database access and connectivity. Daniel Lewis explains how to put it into practice
Interview

Noah Stokes projects with meaning

Bold's founder on Apple, redesigning Delicious and burying a goat

23 Jan 2013

By Jim Thacker on January 23, 2013 | 2 comments

Bold founder Noah Stokes chats to Jim Thacker about getting out of the city and finding projects with meaning, redesigning Delicious – and why working for Apple was no Garden of Eden
Feature

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 January 23, 2013

Chris Mills looks back at most exciting web standards developments of 2012, and looks ahead to what we can expect in 2013
Interview

Alex Duloz on The Pastry Box Project

Duloz on Madmen, diversity, crowdfunding and making a book

22 Jan 2013

By Tanya Combrinck on January 22, 2013

The Pastry Box Project provides an insight into the minds of those at the forefront of the web design industry. Creator Alex Duloz explains his views on diversity in the industry, how he's planning to make the writings into a book and how TV show Madmen inspired him to start the project
Tutorial

Build a powerful ecommerce site with ExpressionEngine

David Dexter on how to use the CMS to build ecommerce sites

22 Jan 2013

By David Dexter on January 22, 2013 | 8 comments

ExpressionEngine is a powerful and flexible content management system. David Dexter of codesly.com walks us through the process of using the CMS to build ecommerce websites
Feature

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 January 21, 2013

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