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Facebook’s top 10 social design secrets

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Designers respond to Flickr revamp

It’s a massive improvement, they say, except when they don’t

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Feature

The importance of keeping clients happy

Mike Kapetanovic on how to make your clients do the selling for you

5 Aug 2011

By Mike Kapetanovic on August 05, 2011 | 2 comments

Loyal clients are immensely valuable. Mike Kapetanovic, founder of Washington DC-based agency Reef Light Interactive, explains how to make your clients do the selling for you
Blog

Boost your personal brand

Lea Alcantara reveals the best ways to promote yourself and your work

5 Aug 2011

By Lea Alcantara on August 05, 2011 | 2 comments

Feeling overlooked? Don't sit on your laurels and wait for people to notice you, or worry too much over getting your name out there. Designer Lea Alcantara reveals the best ways to promote yourself and your work to the community
Tutorial

Create a page flip effect with HTML5 canvas

Hakim El Hattab on using HTML5 canvas and JS to create a page flip

5 Aug 2011

By Hakim El Hattab on August 05, 2011 | 15 comments

Web developer and creative programmer Hakim El Hattab shows us a new take on the ‘Flash page flip’ we all love to hate, using HTML5’s canvas and JavaScript. He explains how Fi built 20thingsilearned.com
Tutorial

Use Paper.js to create HTML5 interactive vector animations

Create an example that explores open source JS framework Paper.js

4 Aug 2011

By Dr Woohoo on August 04, 2011 | 1 comment

Paper.js is an open source vector graphics JavaScript framework built on top of HTML5 canvas and developed by the incredible Jürg Lehni and Jonathan Puckey. Dr Woohoo, Claus Wahlers and Rasmus Blaesbjerg from HAUS create an example that explores Paper.js
Interview

Rich Thornett on Dribbble

Dribbble co-creator Rich Thornett answers your questions

4 Aug 2011

By Tanya Combrinck on August 04, 2011 | 1 comment

Dribbble co-creator and developer Rich Thornett answers your questions on the invite-only policy, private shots, community policing, the site’s core design principles, how it got its name and whether it's making any money
Feature

Should designers do spec work?

Is working for free ever worth it? We weigh up the pros and cons

4 Aug 2011

By Karl Hodge on August 04, 2011 | 3 comments

It's the debate that refuses to die. Is working for free ever worth it? Karl Hodge weighs up the pros and cons of pro bono, design competitions, creative pitching and other forms of spec work
Feature

10 of the craziest client requests EVER!

We compile 10 of the craziest client requests

3 Aug 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on August 03, 2011 | 14 comments

Clients want all sorts of things. And sometimes it's the stuff of nightmares. We compile just what kind of outrageous, baffling and downright weird questions some leading design agencies and freelancers have to answer
Blog

The rock star myth

MetaLab’s Andrew Wilkinson explains how to succeed in going it alone

3 Aug 2011

By Andrew Wilkinson on August 03, 2011 | 3 comments

Going it alone sounds great, but it’s easy to crash and burn if you hand-craft everything that you produce yourself. MetaLab’s Andrew Wilkinson explains how he has learned to delegate and how to succeed with your sanity intact
Feature

The future of CSS layouts

Options for richer, more dynamic page layouts are on their way

3 Aug 2011

By Peter Gasston on August 03, 2011 | 11 comments

For all the wonderful features it provides, CSS does a surprisingly poor job of the fundamentals of page layout. But options for richer, more dynamic pages are on their way, as Peter Gasston explains
Feature

Devs respond to Adobe Edge

Early feedback to preview shows some concerns

2 Aug 2011

By Tanya Combrinck on August 02, 2011 | 1 comment

We speak to leading developers about the newly released web animation tool, and discover concerns over HTML5 branding and absence of SVG and canvas, although Adobe stresses it’s still early days
Tutorial

Integrate Google Maps and Flickr into a real-time app

Use JS, CSS and the Google Maps API to build a Flickr visualisation

2 Aug 2011

By James Christian on August 02, 2011 | 3 comments

Use JavaScript, CSS and the Google Maps API to build a custom-themed, real-time Flickr visualisation like NET-A-PORTER LIVE. James Christian and web developer Ben Gannaway reveal the techniques they used
Blog

Designing by committee

Paul Wyatt takes a wry look at designing by committee

2 Aug 2011

By Paul Wyatt on August 02, 2011 | 4 comments

Why can’t non-designers keep their noses out? Paul Wyatt gets the hump as he takes a wry look at designing by committee, while emphasising that good, considered feedback is to be encouraged
Feature

10 beautiful iPhone app user interfaces

Designer/developer Aral Balkan showcases 10 beautiful iPhone app UIs

2 Aug 2011

By Aral Balkan on August 02, 2011 | 4 comments

Until you have the user experience for an app right, you shouldn't even be thinking of anything else. Designer and developer Aral Balkan showcases 10 beautiful iPhone app user interfaces that are more than just pretty
Tutorial

Style Twitter posts on your site with CSS3

Use CSS3 to enhance the look of a tweets list

1 Aug 2011

By Zoe Gillenwater on August 01, 2011

Lists of recent tweets tend to look a bit boring. Zoe Mickley Gillenwater, author of Stunning CSS3 (stunningcss3.com), explains how to use the new properties and selectors of CSS3 to enhance the look of a tweet list in modern browsers
Interview

Jessica Hische on typography, logos and more

Oliver Lindberg chats to typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische

1 Aug 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on August 01, 2011

She doesn’t do web design, but she’s become a big name in the web design community. Oliver Lindberg chats to Brooklyn-based typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische about logos, portfolios and the benefits of collaboration