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  • 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

  • 10 things your clients need to know

    Clients sometimes need a little push in the right direction and be taught about the mysteries of web design. Paddy Donnelly and Jack Osborne, the brains behind Wee Nudge, address 10 touchy subjects to show you how to do it
    By Jack Osborne And Paddy Donnelly on | 10 comments

  • Die a designer: 10 steps to a long career

    Designers need to be planning for career longevity, says Christopher Cashdollar, creative director for Happy Cog. His 10 tips will get you thinking beyond the pixel and on a path towards long-term professional relevance
    By Christopher Cashdollar on | 11 comments

  • Applying micro-level design criteria

    Writing micro-level design criteria for individual features can help you invent better solutions. In this example leading user experience specialist Robert Hoekman Jr explains how he established design criteria for Myspace and applied them
    By Robert Hoekman Jr on

  • 2011 in review: 20 CSS sites that rocked!

    2011 was packed with media queries, standards-based animations and selectors, but what were the best CSS sites of the year? Web developer Peter Gasston, the author of The Book of CSS3, looks back at his favourites
    By Peter Gasston on

  • Mobilise your website

    When trying mobile design for the first time, not everyone has the time and resources to build a new mobile site or begin with a mobile first redesign. Kristofer Layon, author of the upcoming book Mobilizing Web Sites, explains how you can take mobile baby steps to design a decent mobile presentation for an existing site
    By Kristofer Layon on

  • Create the perfect favicon

    Today Jon Hicks' much anticipated Icon Handbook, published by Five Simple Steps, is going on sale. We present an exclusive excerpt on creating favicons
    By Jon Hicks on | 1 comment

  • Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good web design

    Dieter Rams is one of the most important designers of the 20th century but his famous 10 principles for good design focused on industrial design. Here Lisbon-based designer Nuno Loureiro applies them to web design
    By Nuno Loureiro on | 8 comments

  • Seven lessons learned from responsive web design

    What’s good for the developer isn’t necessarily good for the customer. Vince Allen, senior front-end developer at Lot18, gives the background on why responsive web design is the right focus for web development

  • Designing for touch

    Fingers and thumbs turn desktop conventions on their head. Interaction designer Josh Clark explains what you need to keep in mind when designing for mobile touchscreens and compares finger-friendly touch interfaces for iPhone, iPad and Android

  • Where are our absolute CSS units?

    Lewis Nyman dives into the problem with multiple pixel densities across web capable devices and investigates the mysterious disappearance of our old tools, absolute CSS units
    By Lewis Nyman on | 2 comments

  • Jump from graphic to web design in seven easy steps

    Graphic designers who want to transition from print to web need to stop being scared of the 'tech boogie man' and make the leap. Jose Caballer presents seven steps to help you get off the fence and start making more money
    By Jose Caballer on | 6 comments
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