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  • Interview

    Marc Thiele on beyond tellerrand

    The organiser of beyond tellerrand, Marc Thiele, answers our questions

    26 Oct 2011

    By Oliver Lindberg on
    Designer Marc Thiele is the organiser of beyond tellerrand, a web design and development conference taking place 20 to 22 November in Düsseldorf, Germany and featuring top speakers such as Simon Collison, Jeremy Keith and Dan Rubin. Here he tells us all about it
  • Top 10 Photoshop productivity shortcuts

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    Top 10 Photoshop productivity shortcuts

    Designers at Precedent reveal their top Photoshop shortcuts

    26 Oct 2011

    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
  • Five killer ways to break the grid

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    Five killer ways to break the grid

    You can enhance the grid by breaking its own rules, says Matthew Smith

    25 Oct 2011

    By Matthew Smith on | 1 comment
    The grid may be a key element of good web design but you can enhance it by breaking its own rules, says Matthew Smith
  • Improve your responsive design workflow with Sass

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    Improve your responsive design workflow with Sass

    Ryan Taylor on how to use Sass in your responsive layouts workflow

    25 Oct 2011

    Sass does not just help you maintain your style sheets. It can actually improve your responsive layout workflow and you don't even have to worry about the maths! Here Ryan Taylor explains how to build a reusable framework
  • The insider’s guide to a successful website: promote (part 3)

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    The insider’s guide to a successful website: promote (part 3)

    Laurence McCahill provides 10 top tips on promoting your site

    24 Oct 2011

    By Laurence McCahill on | 3 comments
    Laurence McCahill, co-founder of Spook Studio, explains how his team has simplified the process of creating a website into three key stages. In the last part of this series he provides 10 top tips on promoting your finished site
  • Devs and creatives, it's time to collaborate!

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    Devs and creatives, it's time to collaborate!

    Ben Winter calls for a return to the credo, ‘form follows function’

    24 Oct 2011

    By Ben Winter on | 1 comment
    In this new mobile, multi-platform digital age, Ben Winter calls for an end to the old battles between creatives and developers and a return to the credo, ‘form follows function’
  • 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
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