Graphics, content and navigation are all well and good, but it’s important not to neglect the URL. Faruk Ates explains how to get the most from your site’s address
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
The godfather of web standards, Jeffrey Zeldman, talks to Ethan Marcotte, guru of responsive web design, about what it means, how it fits into the big picture and the best ways to put it into practice
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
Designer and co-founder of the Animatable animation app Naomi Atkinson answers your questions on what she finds inspirational and how animation can support accessibility
Part-educator, part-designer, part-UX consultant, Liz Danzico is one of the best-connected people in the industry. She chats to Tom May and gives her unique take on the state of web design education and user experience today
Today Jon Hicks' much anticipated Icon Handbook, published by Five Simple Steps, is going on sale. We present an exclusive excerpt on creating favicons
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
Technology conferences increasingly release videos of their presentations online. Simon Willison, the co-founder and CEO of Lanyrd, presents 15 of the best of 2011
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
Irene Pereyra, director of UX and strategy at digital agency Fantasy Interactive, rounds up 10 top tips to help you deliver an amazing interactive user experience
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