CategoryTechniques

November 19, 2012 — Even though we keep JavaScript, CSS and HTML in different files, the concepts behind progressive enhancement are getting all knotted up with every jQuery plugin we use and with every weird technique that crops up. In this post, Tim Wright offers a little perspective as to where we are and how we can realign our goals. Read more…

November 8, 2012 — Creating a CMS is pretty easy due to the modular nature of WordPress controls and functions. Daniel Pataki outlines some methods that can be used extremely well to create customized admins for nearly anything you can think of. Read more…

October 16, 2012 — The printed Mobile Book features the most important things that you need to know as a designer, developer or mobile strategist to make your websites optimized for mobile. You’ll dive deep into the peculiarities of the mobile industry, explore responsive design strategy, and more. Read more…

October 12, 2012 — Kris Niles shares the top five reasons why their user experience (UX) team at Citrix (which consists of about 20 designers, researchers and editors, working on Web, desktop and mobile applications) uses Fireworks. He’ll illustrate his points with a few practical examples, as well as examples from other design firms. Read more…

October 10, 2012 — What hacks are WordPress users particularly vulnerable to? How do they get in? What do they do to a WordPress website? Siobhan McKeown provides more context about the things you need to protect yourself from. Read more…

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…