Our experts respond to Paul Boag’s recent tweet: “@boagworld … We need to realign our thinking. Job satisfaction should come from producing design the client loves, not design we (or our peers) love.”
Designer and developer Christopher Schmitt examines the problem of adaptive images and looks at issues such as screen resolution and Retina displays, bandwidth and browser width
The law on cookies changes on Saturday within the EU, and designers and website owners are fretting about compliance. Richard Beaumont of The Cookie Collective explains how to keep your site legal
Christopher Schmitt explains how to keep users of both Retina and traditional screens happy, by delivering adaptive and flexible images to suit all resolutions
Interaction designers are being faced with multiple new challenges in keeping their designs fresh. Matthew Smith of Squared Eye offers his advice in how to meet them
In the first of a regular series of reports, Lea Verou summarises the latest need-to-know developments in the fast-moving world of the Working Groups ...
A website style guide is an ideal way to ensure brand identity, professionalism and consistency across your site. Steve Fisher explains how to go about writing one
Women rule the web, make the majority of purchasing decisions, and are more active on social media channels than their male counterparts. And yet, as designers, we don’t know how to reach this target audience effectively
Separate mobile site, or responsive design? Don't take sides in the Nielsen-Clark debate: use top task analysis to find out what your users really want, says Christiaan Lustig
Governor Technology was recently tasked by MSN UK to create a responsive site for its coverage of the London 2012 Olympics. Matt Clark explains how it rose to the challenge
James Young recently surveyed his fellow designers about the biggest problems they face on responsive sites. Here, he reports on the results – and offers his solutions
Games mechanics are a great way to influence users’ behaviour. Toby Beresford explains how incorporating them into your websites can boost visitor engagement
Last week's W3C editor's draft brought us one step closer to a workable specification for responsive images. Anselm Hannemann explores how the draft spec came about, the problems that remain to be solved – and why we need a specification in the first place