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  • Prototyping in code

    Alex Morris, user experience director at Mark Boulton Design, walks us through some of the rationale, the tricks, the processes and techniques you can employ to build HTML prototyping into your workflow
    By Alex Morris on | 3 comments

  • Jonathan Snook on Photoshop vs Fireworks, and more

    The Canadian writer, speaker, blogger and designer/developer extraordinaire answers your questions on choosing software, getting inspiration, learning how to architect apps that can scale nicely, and what’s holding back the web
    By Tanya Combrinck on

  • Emotion in design

    Our creations need to be more human, says Aarron Walter, lead user experience designer at MailChimp. He argues that the task of designing a pleasurable experience is made easier when we create a distinct personality for our interface
    By Aarron Walter on | 3 comments

  • Five killer ways to use a gallery style

    On a gallery-style website, we tend to look over the whole view to see what suits our artistic palette. Digestible chunks of copy or images can be processed like a great tapas meal, argues Matthew Smith
    By Matthew Smith on | 2 comments

  • .net Awards 2011: top 10 designers

    Another new category in the .net Awards recognises the world's best web designers. Here we profile our shortlist compiled of your nominations. Whose designs rocked your world this year? Make up your mind and cast your vote today!
    By Oliver Lindberg on | 3 comments

  • ZURB

    Californian agency ZURB specialises in helping web startups connect with their customers. Partner Jeremy Britton explains its approach and philosophy to Oliver Lindberg
    By Oliver Lindberg on

  • When perfect code gets FUBAR ... and how to avoid it!

    You hand your beautifully crafted code to a client, colleague or even CMS, and the next time you check in, it's all ruined. Front-end alchemist Scott Lenger explains how bad code happens to good people, why it matters, and the steps you can take to prevent it

  • 10 beautiful examples of illustration on the web

    As more and more graphic designers and illustrators gain web design skills, illustrations can increasingly be found on the web. UK designer Mike Kus showcases his 10 favourite examples of websites using illustration to enhance the user experience.

  • Self-educate to survive

    If you lack a formal design education, you’ll need to self-educate before you can progress in your career, says Ryan Downie. Here's a checklist of the subjects he studied to help him to understand more about web design

  • The perfect web design app… and why it doesn’t exist

    Designers and developers share with Craig Grannell their tools for designing websites and demand something more in keeping with modern practices. The perfect tool, it seems, simply doesn't exist yet, as highlighted by the Project Meteor campaign

  • 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

  • Create a diagonal rotation with CSS transitions

    Web designer Josh Miller, the creative director of Paramore, shows us how to turn an unordered list into a rotating diagonal portfolio with CSS3 and jQuery, just like the one he built for joshmiller7.com
    By Josh Miller on

  • .net Awards 2011: 10 brilliant newcomers

    The Brilliant Newcomer Award celebrates the ultimate shooting star in web design and development who really has excelled in their field. Here we profile the top 10 newcomers as nominated by you. May the best one win!
    By Oliver Lindberg on | 1 comment

  • Improve your website navigation

    Content might be king and a picture may speak a thousand words, but you’d see none of it were it not for navigation. Interaction designer Paul Annett explores navigation trends and how they’re evolving

  • 8 essential Fireworks tips for web design

    Save yourself from doing the same thing over and over again. Use Adobe Fireworks to speed up your workflow with these time-saving tips, compiled by Jonathan Snook
    By Jonathan Snook on
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