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  • .net Awards 2013: top 10 brilliant newcomers

    In the second of a series of articles profiling the nominees for this year's .net Awards, we delve into the minds of 10 web pros who've made a splash over the last 12 months
    By Tanya Combrinck on

  • .net Awards 2013: top 10 young designers

    Have you cast your votes in the 2013 .net Awards yet? If not, this week we're running a series of articles that will help you decide who's most deserving of your support. Here's the first one
    By Tanya Combrinck on

  • Design in the browser

    Channel your workflow into the realm of code and you open up fresh possibilities for dynamic design. Todd Zaki Warfel argues for a shift in perspective
    By Todd Zaki Warfel on

  • Five killer ways to use perceived affordance

    Helping a user understand what they can interact with – and indeed what they can’t – is of fundamental importance in web design, says Gene Crawford
    By Gene Crawford on

  • 30 favourite web design podcasts

    2013 has seen the launch of a slew of interesting new web design podcasts. We asked some leading web designers and developers to tell us about their favourites
    By Tanya Combrinck on

  • Cultural factors in web design

    By factoring in cultural variables, we can create sites that are relevant for a wide variety of users around the world
    By Senongo Akpem on

  • 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

  • Five killer ways to use Mental Models

    Understanding the way the visitors to your site discover your content will help you plan its architecture, says Gene Crawford
    By Gene Crawford on

  • Hacking the brain

    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
    By Richard Shepherd on

  • A new responsive design process

    Steve Fisher and Alaine Mackenzie set out their vision for responsive web design as it approaches maturity
    By Steve Fisher And Alaine Mackenzie on

  • Seven dirty secrets of data visualisation

    What are the real challenges visualisation developers face, and what don't they want you to know about their work? Two professional practitioners lead you through some of the dirty secrets of the infovis trade
    By Nate Agrin And Nick Rabinowitz on

  • Developers and designers unite!

    Poor communication between designers and developers can add weeks of work and mountains of stress to a project. Erik Boman identifies the stages where communication is most vital and suggests strategies to improve information-sharing
    By Erik Boman on

  • Five killer ways to use parallax

    It’s important to build visuals around your narrative to engage users, says Gene Crawford
    By Gene Crawford on

  • Interaction design lessons from sci-fi: Visual interfaces

    Make it so is a book for interface designers interested in understanding sci-fi's role in design history and using sci-fi interfaces in their own work. Here we present an exclusive excerpt on visual design, with a focus on typography
    By Chris Noessel And Nathan Shedroff on | 2 comments
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