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
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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 -
Ethan Marcotte's 20 favourite responsive sites
Ethan Marcotte, the father of responsive web design, has compiled a whole folder of responsive sites, each as flexible and foxy as the last. Here he rounds up 20 of his favourites -
The biggest freelance mistakes... and how to avoid them!
Surly bosses, packed mass transit, office politics — all anathema to your self-employed lifestyle. The following tips by Matt Schiffman will teach you how to stay independent and avoid some common mistakes related to freelancing -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The birth of the HUGE UX school
Michal Pasternak, partner (user experience) at HUGE, explains how the agency developed a training program for prospective interaction designers and how it changed the company -
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’ -
The insider’s guide to a successful website: promote (part 3)
Laurence McCahill, co-founder of Spook Studio, explains how his team has simplified the process of creating a website into three key stages. In the last part of this series he provides 10 top tips on promoting your finished site -
Five killer ways to break the grid
The grid may be a key element of good web design but you can enhance it by breaking its own rules, says Matthew Smith -
Make serious cash from web templates: 10 insider tips
Looking for ways to make some extra money? Here WordPress themes designer Brandon Jones examines 10 practical tips for turning your web design by-products into some serious cash flow each month by selling them online -
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’ -
The three golden rules of designing for friends and family
Mike Kapetanovic, the founder of Reef Light Interactive, has had some miserable experiences when working for friends and family. Here he discusses his three golden rules he wishes he knew before -
Five web design clichés to never use again
Keith Butters, chief experience officer and co-founder of The Barbarian Group, lists his top five web design clichés that he would like to never see on the internet again -
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 -
Big question: how do faster browser releases affect your work?
Browser updates are being released more frequently, but is changing quickly all that it’s cracked up to be? We consult our experts -
Behind the scenes of 'Lights': the latest WebGL sensation!
Interactive studio HelloEnjoy has built a mind-blowing 3D music video for Ellie Goulding's song 'Lights'. Here creative director Carlos Ulloa explains how the team chose WebGL and created various immersive graphic effects -
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 -
The top 25 books for web designers and developers
As Christmas is just over a month away, Craig Grannell quizzes the web industry’s finest about the essential books you should be giving to that special web designer or developer in your life or devour yourself this holiday season
