What does craftsmanship have to do with web design? We all want to produce websites that impress and make our clients say “Wow!” This article introduces the principles of great design and things to keep in mind when working on your projects.
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CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools, designers and developers come up with fresh and clever CSS tricks and techniques that are shared with other developers online.
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Freelance professionals, especially those with creative and artistic nature tend to engage more the right side of their brain. The administrative side (left-brain-heavy) can prove difficult to tackle.
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Five reasons why vertical navigation should not be used and why designers and architects should almost always construct their sites with horizontal navigation in mind.
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A showcase of vintage and retro signage is compiled to celebrate the beauty of vintage and retro typography. Admire the styles and the love that went into creating these gorgeous vintage signs.
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The article looks into modern art movements and a series of diverse logos inspired by those movements. It is always great to know where all of these designs, creative elements have come from.
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Website performance is a hugely important topic, for big companies such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, slow websites mean fewer users, less happy users, and thus lost revenue and reputation.
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With the placement of Lorem Ipsum into mock-ups, a great disservice is done to a design, content, website and users. The problems will eventually have a domino effect on your site.
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Jesse James Garett, founder of Adaptive Path and author of the book The Elements of User Experience, speaks on what UX and UX design is, what UX looked like before and what are some of the challenges people are encountering now. He cites engagement as the main goal of UX design and, through some fantastic examples, shows that engagement is an universal quality achieved through visuality, sound, touch, smell, taste, body and mind. One of the most impressive moments from the session is when Jesse compares Beethoven to an experience designer, accompanied by the Ninth Symphony.
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“Ask the Expert” is a popular series. This time in our round of “Design discussion”, the theme for the interview is with James White, the renowned graphic designer from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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