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  • Designing by committee

    Why can’t non-designers keep their noses out? Paul Wyatt gets the hump as he takes a wry look at designing by committee, while emphasising that good, considered feedback is to be encouraged

  • The rock star myth

    Going it alone sounds great, but it’s easy to crash and burn if you hand-craft everything that you produce yourself. MetaLab’s Andrew Wilkinson explains how he has learned to delegate and how to succeed with your sanity intact
    By Andrew Wilkinson on | 3 comments

  • Boost your personal brand

    Feeling overlooked? Don't sit on your laurels and wait for people to notice you, or worry too much over getting your name out there. Designer Lea Alcantara reveals the best ways to promote yourself and your work to the community
    By Lea Alcantara on | 2 comments

  • 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

  • Where ideas for design come from

    The creative process isn't just magic. Web Hosting Search's Jane Campbell explains how and why designers' creative process works, and goes through it from practice and preparation to execution
    By Jane Campbell on | 3 comments

  • Why the doodle matters

    Don’t dismiss doodling – in the right hands, it can be a serious and useful tool that should be deployed when problems are most messy and topics most serious, says business owner, author and leader of the doodle revolution Sunni Brown
    By Sunni Brown on | 5 comments

  • 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

  • Stop banning Lorem Ipsum: a rebuttal

    User experience specialist Robert Hoekman Jr argues that Latin placeholder text aka Lorem Ipsum is a tool that still has value to the design process. It's up to you to know when and why to use it
    By Robert Hoekman Jr on | 9 comments

  • Devs and creatives, it's time to collaborate!

    In this new mobile, multi-platform digital age, Ben Winter calls for an end to the old battles between creatives and developers and a return to the credo, ‘form follows function’
    By Ben Winter on | 1 comment

  • Crafting web design education

    Teaching web design should integrate theory and practice, say Nicklas Persson and Christopher Murphy of the University of Ulster, aka ‘The Standardistas’
    By Nicklas Persson And Chris Murphy on | 4 comments

  • Commercialising a community

    Teenage developer Jamie Rumbelow is all for open source but argues that creating a side business surrounding a community can actually help it grow and flourish
    By Jamie Rumbelow on | 2 comments

  • Getting feedback is crucial

    Hardly anyone likes asking for comments on their work, but the process is critical to career development and good results, says Jonathan Smiley
    By Jonathan Smiley on | 2 comments

  • Agile: the next step

    Jim Highsmith, one of the co-authors of the Agile manifesto, reflects on 10 years of Agile development and examines how it can keep moving forward as a movement
    By Jim Highsmith on | 1 comment

  • Turning web traffic into sales

    Much more than just revenue hinges on web site performance. Downtime, inconsistency, slowdowns and bad design can ruin customer experiences. Compuware's David Flower explains how to avoid lasting harm
    By David Flower on | 4 comments

  • How to get your first job

    Whether you’re a student or recent graduate, a designer or developer, it can be hard to break into the web industry. Rachel Shillcock shares her top tips on making your mark
    By Rachel Shillcock on | 5 comments

  • The instant web

    Digital marketing strategist Luis Freitas ponders on the next step the web is going to take and discusses the semantic web, the instant web and Web 3.0
    By Luis Freitas on | 1 comment

  • The importance of goal-driven data

    Luis Spencer Freitas, digital marketing manager for Pernod Ricard Americas, explores the current state of data gathering and analyses its true use in an ever-expanding digital culture
    By Luis Freitas on | 1 comment

  • Designing in the browser

    Designer and developer Edward O'Riordan explains why you should design in the browser and why clients should be shown HTML and CSS mockups

  • The future of Ruby

    EdgeCase UK MD Paul Wilson presents a personal view of why working with Ruby is so exciting and looks at its past, present and future
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