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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The insider’s guide to a successful website: build (part 2)

    Brighton-based agency Spook Studio has simplified the process of creating a website into three key stages. In part 2 of this series co-founder Laurence McCahill looks at the nuts and bolts of the project and comes up with 10 tips to ensure it runs smoothly
    By Laurence Mccahill on
  • The 10 principles of interaction design

    Chad Vavra, interaction design director at The Barbarian Group, rounds up 10 key rules that make good interaction designs and designers and that you need to understand before you can break them
    By Chad Vavra on | 1 comment
  • The insider’s guide to a successful website: design (part 1)

    Laurence McCahill, co-founder of Spook Studio, explains how his team has simplified the process of creating a website into three key stages. In part one of this series he looks at design, including research, planning and testing, and breaks down the phase into 10 simple steps
    By Laurence Mccahill on | 2 comments
  • Redesign your portfolio site in 10 easy steps

    Designing for yourself is one of the toughest tasks for a web designer. Grace Smith rounds up 10 vital steps you need to take to pave the way for a successful redesign of your portfolio site
  • 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
  • The top 20 mobile apps for web designers

    If you’re regularly on the move, modern mobile apps enable you to do real work rather than twiddle your thumbs on a train. We unearth the top 20 apps for those in the industry
    By Craig Grannell on | 6 comments
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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