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  • Ryan Carson on Treehouse, FOWA, startups and more!

    He’s the man who got us networking at The Future of Web Apps and learning online via Treehouse. Tom May meets the American entrepreneur who’s passionate about breathing energy into the UK startup scene
    By Tom May on
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    By Carlos Ulloa on
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    By Brandon Jones on | 2 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
  • 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
    By Michel Pasternak 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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
    By Matthew Darrow Schiffman on | 3 comments
  • 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
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