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  • The top 20 CSS sites of 2012

    2012 in review: designer Val Head selects 20 of the best uses of CSS we've seen this year
    By Val Head on

  • UX design for startups: get it optimised

    In the last of his articles on UX design for startups, UXPin CEO Marcin Treder explains why launching a new feature isn't a cause to celebrate, but an opportunity to optimise your product
    By Marcin Treder on

  • True craftsmanship comes from crafting relationships

    William Channer, the founder of the Dorm Room Tycoon podcast, explains why young designers should build relationships with thought leaders in the industry and how to go about it
    By William Channer on

  • The top 10 HTML5 games of 2012

    HTML5 gaming marched onwards during 2012. Here Michal Budzynski runs down 10 essential games (and one conference) worth giving some attention to
    By Michal Budzynski on | 1 comment

  • The top 20 web conference talks of 2012

    2012 in review: we asked web designers and developers from both sides of the Atlantic to recommend their favourite talks and presentations from the last 12 months. Here's what they've come up with
    By Oliver Lindberg on | 4 comments

  • Designing for success in 2013

    Olof Schybergson, CEO, Fjord, explains how to design for business success in the coming year, citing trends designers need to watch
    By Olof Schybergson on

  • Five killer ways to use parallax

    It’s important to build visuals around your narrative to engage users, says Gene Crawford
    By Gene Crawford on

  • How to find better clients

    Long live client services! Carl Smith, founding member of nGen Works, answers Khoi Vinh's post calling for the end of the client services model, explains how it has to evolve and how we can find better clients

  • Five killer ways to integrate social sharing

    Creating your own buttons to get people to Like or tweet your own or your client’s pages isn’t always an option. Matthew Smith takes a look at the right way to integrate social networking into your sites
    By Matthew Smith on | 1 comment

  • Earn money in your sleep!

    It’s every web designer and developer’s dream: a passive income stream that generates cash all by itself. Adii Pienaar explains how to create one of your own
    By Adii Pienaar on | 3 comments

  • .net Awards 2011: the 10 sites of the year

    In the last of our .net Awards 2011 profiles, we showcase the 10 websites of the year that you have nominated. They all are rich in visual flair and imagination but which one really pushed the boundaries of the web this year?
    By Oliver Lindberg 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Report: dConstruct 2011

    Software developer Brian Suda reports from Friday's dConstruct conference in Brighton
    By Brian Suda on

  • 7 ways web conferences suck (and how to fix them)

    Robert Hoekman Jr has been speaking at web conferences for six years now. Here he analyses seven things that are wrong with such events and comes up with a few ideas about how to fix them
    By Robert Hoekman Jr on | 3 comments

  • 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
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