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New tools for web design and development: February 2013
Mark Penfold's regular round-up of the newest and best tools
12 Mar 2013
Mark Penfold's regular round-up of the newest and best tools
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Interview
Eva-Lotta Lamm on the value of sketching
Sketching as a tool for communication and for personal pleasure
12 Mar 2013
Interaction designer, illustrator and artist Eva Lotta-Lamm tells Martin Cooper about how she uses sketching both as a tool for communication and for personal pleasure -
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Designing for users
Design isn't a vehicle for showing off; it's for communicating ideas
11 Mar 2013
Design is not a vehicle for showing off the latest techniques or tools, it’s a way of communicating ideas, says Joshua Garity -
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Five killer ways to use vertical rhythm
How elements like headers and images effect a site's rhythm
11 Mar 2013
The placement of elements such as headers and images has a big effect on the overall rhythm of a website, says Gene Crawford -
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Content strategy 101, Part 1: giving context to your content
Sandi Wassmer establishes a framework for content strategy
8 Mar 2013
In the first of a four-part series, Sandi Wassmer establishes a framework for content strategy -
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Simon Collison on the privilege of being a designer
The ever-restless designer, author and thinker talks to Martin Cooper
7 Mar 2013
Ever-restless designer, author and thinker Simon Collison tells Martin Cooper about his decision to leave client work, his current work with ‘product shop’ Fictive Kin, and the importance of continuing to question established practice -
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Providing responsive images with Drupal
Michael Herchel highlights some methods to make life more flexible
7 Mar 2013
Serving images to mobile devices can prove a major annoyance for developers. Michael Herchel highlights a number of methods to make life more flexible -
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Five killer ways to use Mental Models
Understand how visitors find your content in order to plan your site
6 Mar 2013
Understanding the way the visitors to your site discover your content will help you plan its architecture, says Gene Crawford -
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Make your website printable with CSS
Adrian Roselli shares some techniques for adapting to different media
5 Mar 2013
Responsive design isn’t just about screen size; it also means adapting to different media – including print. Adrian Roselli shares some techniques -
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Jeffrey Zeldman on the dream of a standards-based web
The father of web standards fondly remembers The Web Standards Project
4 Mar 2013
The father of web standards fondly remembers The Web Standards Project and how it revolutionised the industry -
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Hacking the brain
How curiosity in human nature helps us create brilliant sites and apps
4 Mar 2013
User experience is often considered a dark art. Here Richard Shepherd argues that a healthy curiosity in human nature helps us create delightful sites and apps -
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Improve page load times
Increase performance by serving data that’s closer to your users
1 Mar 2013
Dean Hume explains how content delivery networks can drastically increase the performance of your website by serving data that’s closer to your users -
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The cloud’s global future
We need to turn towards a more federated cloud, says Ditlev Bredahl
28 Feb 2013
No single provider holds the keys to a truly global cloud. So, argues Ditlev Bredahl, we need to turn towards a more federated model -
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Big question: what advice would you give to your younger self?
Our panel shares professional advice for their younger selves
28 Feb 2013
With the benefit of hindsight and the ability to travel back in time to bygone years, our expert panel shares the professional advice they would lend to their younger selves -
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Big Mouth: Poppycock
Let’s keep the police out of our online conversations
27 Feb 2013
Let’s keep the police out of our online conversations, says Gary Marshall
