CategoryTechniques

September 26, 2012 — Siobhan McKeown looks at some successful implementations of BuddyPress. Five communities that are using BuddyPress, some big, some small, some established, some emerging, some successful and some unsuccessful. Read more…

September 24, 2012 — Your customers are now interacting with your website on countless different devices. In this post, the authors discuss a useful tool for addressing the control over the Web user experience and the ability to map your business requirements to the interactions that people have with your website. Read more…

September 9, 2012 — Vlad Gerasimov used Photoshop actions to save multiple sizes from a source file, but it quickly became a nightmare to maintain. He found a solution: a command-line image manipulation program. Dive into this post to learn more! Read more…

July 26, 2012 — Android is an attractive platform for developers, but not all designers share our enthusiasm. Making an app look and feel great across hundreds of devices with different combinations of screen size, pixel density and aspect ratio is no mean feat. Android’s diversity provides plenty of challenges, but creating apps that run on an entire ecosystem of devices is rewarding too. Read more…

July 3, 2012 — As interface designers, we’re often required to demonstrate the look and feel (and interactions) of the interfaces we design. We often begin with a series of flat images, and while these may be pixel perfect and show some amazing detail, they lack the context of the user experience. Read more…

June 26, 2012 — There are different ways to make your website faster: specialized plugins to cache entire rendered HTML pages, plugins to cache all SQL queries and data objects, plugins to minimize JavaScript and CSS files and even some server-side solutions. Read more…

June 21, 2012 — Since our last round-up of useful CSS techniques, we’ve seen a lot of truly remarkable CSS geekery out there. Read more…

May 7, 2012 — While certainly not as well known as Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks is a great tool for creating user interfaces, website designs and mock-ups, wireframes, icons and much more. Read more…

April 19, 2012 — If you run an online magazine, most of your readers will never go through your archive, even if you design a neat archive page. It’s not you; it’s just that going through archives is not very popular these days. So, how do you actually make readers dig in without forcing them? How do you invite them to (re)read in a way that’s not boring? Read more…

April 11, 2012 — I’m pretty confident that I won’t surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the Web development sphere as early as 2003. Read more…