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  • Improve your responsive design workflow with Sass

    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

  • Aarron Walter on designing for emotion

    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
    By Aarron Walter on

  • Top 10 Photoshop productivity shortcuts

    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

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

    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
    By Laurence Mccahill on

  • Stop banning Lorem Ipsum: a rebuttal

    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
    By Robert Hoekman Jr on | 9 comments

  • The 10 principles of interaction design

    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
    By Chad Vavra on | 1 comment

  • The insider’s guide to a successful website: design (part 1)

    Laurence McCahill, co-founder of Spook Studio, explains how his team has simplified the process of creating a website into three key stages. In part one of this series he looks at design, including research, planning and testing, and breaks down the phase into 10 simple steps
    By Laurence Mccahill on | 2 comments

  • Redesign your portfolio site in 10 easy steps

    Designing for yourself is one of the toughest tasks for a web designer. Grace Smith rounds up 10 vital steps you need to take to pave the way for a successful redesign of your portfolio site

  • Responsive web design is boring!

    Jonathan Longnecker, co-founder of web and graphic design agency FortySeven Media, argues that most responsive sites are boring and comes up with a few starting points to help us create designs that break the mould
    By Jonathan Longnecker on | 21 comments

  • Five killer ways to use vertical rhythm

    The placement of elements such as headers and images has a big effect on the overall rhythm of a website, says Gene Crawford
    By Gene Crawford on

  • Designing for users

    Design is not a vehicle for showing off the latest techniques or tools, it’s a way of communicating ideas, says Joshua Garity
    By Joshua Garity on

  • Eva-Lotta Lamm on the value of sketching

    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
    By Martin Cooper on

  • The top 20 mobile apps for web designers

    If you’re regularly on the move, modern mobile apps enable you to do real work rather than twiddle your thumbs on a train. We unearth the top 20 apps for those in the industry
    By Craig Grannell on | 6 comments

  • Developers respond to Adobe Muse

    Designers and developers accuse Adobe of not understanding the web and creating a tool that could damage rather than aid the industry. Craig Grannell investigates
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