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  • The birth of the HUGE UX school

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    The birth of the HUGE UX school

    Michal Pasternak explains how HUGE developed a UX training program

    21 Oct 2011

    By Michel Pasternak on
    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
  • The .net strip #2: Don't touch my screen

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    The .net strip #2: Don't touch my screen

    It's the second of our weekly comic strips, created by Brad Colbow

    21 Oct 2011

    By Brad Colbow on | 1 comment
    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
  • The death and rebirth of customer experience

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    The death and rebirth of customer experience

    Des Traynor stresses the importance of good customer communication

    20 Oct 2011

    Des Traynor, COO of Intercom, stresses the importance of good customer communication and explains how to connect to your customers to turn them from idle browsers into active, loyal and passionate visitors
  • Create slick animations with Adobe Edge

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    Create slick animations with Adobe Edge

    David Nibley on the basics of creating an animation in Edge

    20 Oct 2011

    By David Nibley on | 6 comments
    David Nibley, creative director at Rain, guides you through the basics of creating an animation in Adobe Edge and is pleasantly surprised about its ease of use and familiarity of the process
  • The best ways to bill clients

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    The best ways to bill clients

    Jessica Richmond and Mike Kapetanovic compare rival billing methods

    19 Oct 2011

    By Jessica Richmond on | 1 comment
    Jessica Richmond, director of strategic initiatives at Rock Creek Strategic Marketing, and Mike Kapetanovic, founder of Reef Light Interactive, explain how you determine which billing method is right for you
  • .net comes to iOS 5 Newsstand - grab your free issue now!

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    .net comes to iOS 5 Newsstand - grab your free issue now!

    To celebrate the launch of iOS 5 Newsstand, enjoy a free issue

    19 Oct 2011

    By Oliver Lindberg on | 4 comments
    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!
  • The 10 principles of interaction design

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    The 10 principles of interaction design

    The Barbarian Group's Chad Vavra on what makes good interaction design

    19 Oct 2011

    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

  • Interview

    Aarron Walter on designing for emotion

    A Book Apart's Mandy Brown grills Aarron Walter about emotional design

    18 Oct 2011

    By Aarron Walter on
    To mark today's launch of Designing for Emotion, Mandy Brown, co-founder and editor of A Book Apart, talks to Aarron Walter, user experience design lead for MailChimp, about finding the right personality for your product
  • Create awesome retro designs with Photoshop and CSS

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    Create awesome retro designs with Photoshop and CSS

    Naomi Atkinson reveals some quirky Photoshop and CSS tricks

    18 Oct 2011

    By Naomi Atkinson on | 1 comment
    Vintage fonts and retro designs are all the rage on the web. Illustrator and designer Naomi Atkinson reveals some quirky Photoshop and CSS tricks to give your designs a retrotastic feel
  • The insider’s guide to a successful website: build (part 2)

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    The insider’s guide to a successful website: build (part 2)

    In part 2 Laurence McCahill looks at the nults and bolts of a project

    17 Oct 2011

    By Laurence McCahill on
    Brighton-based agency Spook Studio has simplified the process of creating a website into three key stages. In part 2 of this series co-founder Laurence McCahill looks at the nuts and bolts of the project and comes up with 10 tips to ensure it runs smoothly
  • Stop banning Lorem Ipsum: a rebuttal

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    Stop banning Lorem Ipsum: a rebuttal

    Robert Hoekman, Jr, argues that Lorem Ipsum still has value

    17 Oct 2011

    By Robert Hoekman Jr on | 8 comments
    User experience specialist Robert Hoekman Jr argues that Latin placeholder text aka Lorem Ipsum is a tool that still has value to the design process. It's up to you to know when and why to use it
  • The .net strip #1: The Fold

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    The .net strip #1: The Fold

    It's the first of our new, weekly comic strips, created by Brad Colbow

    14 Oct 2011

    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
  • Create a 3D gamepad icon with Photoshop and Illustrator

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    Create a 3D gamepad icon with Photoshop and Illustrator

    Dmitry Tsozik shows us how to create big 3D vector icons in Photoshop

    14 Oct 2011

    By Dmitry Tsozik on | 1 comment
    Dmitry Tsozik, creative director of Russian agency SoftFacade, shows us how to create big 3D vector icons fast and easy in Photoshop, using some techniques that can speed up your work
  • The developer's guide to browser adoption rates

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    The developer's guide to browser adoption rates

    Zeh Fernando analyses the adoption rate of new browser versions

    13 Oct 2011

    By Zeh Fernando on | 7 comments
    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
  • The biggest freelance mistakes... and how to avoid them!

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    The biggest freelance mistakes... and how to avoid them!

    Matt Schiffman on how to avoid his most glaring freelancing mistakes

    13 Oct 2011

    By Matthew Darrow Schiffman on | 3 comments
    Surly bosses, packed mass transit, office politics — all anathema to your self-employed lifestyle. The following tips by Matt Schiffman will teach you how to stay independent and avoid some common mistakes related to freelancing
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