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  • iPads are work tools, too

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    iPads are work tools, too

    With the right apps, you can create on the move, says Andy Hawthorne

    2 Jul 2012

    Tablets are just toys on which to consume content, right? Wrong, says Andy Hawthorne. With a few carefully selected apps, your iPad can enable you to create on the move
  • Design excuses and how to beat them

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    Design excuses and how to beat them

    Overcome negative thinking and achieve your dreams, says Si Jobling

    1 Jun 2012

    By Si Jobling on
    Overcome negative thinking and you’ll achieve your dreams. Si Jobling covers the more common design excuses and how to combat them
  • How sustainable is it to design and develop for an infinite number of devices?

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    Designing for an infinite number of devices

    How sustainable is it to design for an infinite number of devices?

    14 May 2012

    Keith Butters, chief experience officer and co-founder of The Barbarian Group, asks how sustainable it is to design and develop for an infinite number of devices
  • The power of negative reviews

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    The power of negative reviews

    RPM community manager Zack King on turning a negative into a positive

    2 May 2012

    Zack King, community manager at independent marketing agency RPM, argues that negative reviews are an opportunity that businesses must embrace, for if they don’t, they may lose control completely
  • Get rid of the line between design and development

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    Get rid of the line between design and development

    Learn how to code to become creatively indepdendent

    10 Apr 2012

    Designer and developer Bastian Allgeier says designers should learn how to code to become creatively independent and calls for an end to the strict separation between both skillsets
  • Is the mobile optimisation message really getting through?

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    Is the mobile optimisation message really getting through?

    Abby Hardoon looks at how businesses adopt the mobile web

    26 Mar 2012

    By Abby Hardoon on | 1 comment
    Abby Hardoon, founder and CEO of hosting company Daily.co.uk, looks at the adoption of the mobile web, the pay off for businesses that get it right and the reasons why some are slow on the uptake
  • Progressive enhancement is more relevant than ever

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    Progressive enhancement is more relevant than ever

    Jim Newbery responds to a call to abandon progressive enhancement

    5 Mar 2012

    Jim Newbery argues that the diversification in web technologies and devices we've seen in recent years makes it a more relevant and useful perspective than ever
  • Adaptive static design

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    Adaptive static design

    Joni Korpi built a grid system for creating multiple layouts

    13 Feb 2012

    By Joni Korpi on
    Joni Korpi explains how he built a grid system for creating multiple layouts that are as consistent as possible
  • How to get your first job

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    How to get your first job

    Rachel Shillcock shares her top tips on breaking into the web industry

    25 Jan 2012

    By Rachel Shillcock on | 5 comments
    Whether you’re a student or recent graduate, a designer or developer, it can be hard to break into the web industry. Rachel Shillcock shares her top tips on making your mark
  • Designing for nonprofits

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    Designing for nonprofits

    Sonali Agrawal on her lessons learned from designing for nonprofits

    23 Jan 2012

    By Sonali Agrawal on
    Freelance web designer Sonali Agrawal recently tweeted that whatever she had learned was only done so through building websites for nonprofits. We asked her to tell us a bit more about her experiences
  • The app trap

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    The app trap

    Could apps be taking us back to the days of “best viewed with ..."?

    13 Dec 2011

    By Gary Marshall on | 4 comments
    Could smartphone apps be taking us back to the days of “best viewed with ... ”? Gary Marshall makes his prediction
  • Why we created humans.txt

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    Why we created humans.txt

    The H-Team on why it's important to credit the people behind websites

    23 Nov 2011

    By Maria Macias on
    A Spanish group of web developers, Carlos Mańas, Maria Macias, Abel Cabans, Abel Sutilo and Juanjo Bernabeu, decided to launch an initiative to credit the people behind websites. Here they explain why they created humans.txt
  • Big mouth: Bubbleicious

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    Big mouth: Bubbleicious

    Your favourite dotcom bubble is being reborn

    21 Nov 2011

    By Gary Marshall on
    Groupon has become the biggest internet floatation since Google. Your favourite band’s back and your favourite dotcom bubble is being reborn. Gary Marshall is getting déjà vu
  • Crafting web design education

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    Crafting web design education

    Teaching web design should integrate theory and practice

    31 Oct 2011

    By Nicklas Persson and Chris Murphy on | 4 comments
    Teaching web design should integrate theory and practice, say Nicklas Persson and Christopher Murphy of the University of Ulster, aka ‘The Standardistas’
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