The Perils and Perks of Designing with Parallax
How many times has a client, manager, or colleague from a different department asked you to deliver something because it’s trendy? They’ve seen it, they want it. Relevance, be damned. How often has...
View Article3 Old and Outdated UX Patterns (And How to Fix Them)
In one of my recent articles, The Evolution of the Hamburger icon we talked about the history of this commonly-used pattern, and about who’s using it and why. In fact, there have been many recent...
View Article5 Photoshop Plugins to Save Your Time (and Sanity)
Adobe Photoshop is an incredible graphics application which has almost certainly had a larger bearing on the world of design than any other piece of software. In order to get the best outcomes, you...
View ArticleCrash Course: Building an Email Newsletter
If you’ve spent your career dealing with web standards, and enjoyed watching the progressive disappearance of legacy browsers, your first contact with email newsletter building will be painful. You’re...
View Article5 Mobile Design Patterns for a Successful App
In this short series of articles about Mobile Design patterns I introduced some of the most common patterns used to fix problems during development. During articles you’ve learned what a design pattern...
View ArticleReview: 5 Tools for Creating Amazing Online Charts
Quick! You have a big presentation in less than 24 hours, and while it’s almost completed you are missing a vital piece to connect all that information together: Visual data. You've got a handful of...
View ArticleTreasure! Free Mobile Design Resources
Being a designer usually requires staying in the know of resources that you could use to get better at your craft as well as resources you could use in your work. At SitePoint, there have been previous...
View ArticleDesigning Interfaces for Cross Device Use
Digital mobility and connectivity is becoming increasingly important every day. Users have their mobile devices nearby, check notifications frequently, and in some occasions use multiple devices at...
View ArticlePlaying Nice in the Inbox
Coding email can be a tricky business. Once you get the [basic rules] ( http://www.sitepoint.com/rules-best-practice-email-design-coding-practices/) down, it’s smooth sailing — until you encounter...
View ArticleHow Do You Represent a Language on the Web?
The internet has been like a big roll of global duct tape, binding us together in a million different ways. But while vast distances have melted away online, some global differentiators are more...
View Article‘Less is More': Truth, Justice and the Design of Maps
'Less is more' is arguably the most often quoted rule in the history of design. Designers from Christian Dior (fashion) to Saul Bass (graphic design) to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (furniture) have...
View Article3 Ways to Combine Text and Images
In recent years, panoramic background images have become all the rage in web design. The Web is full of impressive examples that well illustrate the technique: eye-catching landing pages, lavish...
View ArticleTravelling by Typeface: San Francisco via San Serriffe
April 1977 must have been a confusing time for travel agents in London. Suddenly hundreds of people were trying to book trips to the beautiful islands of San Serriffe deep in the Indian Ocean. It...
View ArticleA Box of Tricks for Building Responsive Email
In my previous article on newsletter authoring we’ve seen how a handful of tricks can make a huge difference in how your email displays in different clients. Moreover, we have to take account of mobile...
View ArticleBreaking Bad Habits: Ineffective UX Patterns
It isn't always true that what becomes a hot trend is good for UX. Just because everyone is implementing a particular icon, navigation menu or pattern, it doesn't mean that people will understand it,...
View ArticleThe 7 Best Search Engines for Finding Free Images
Since the birth of the digital camera, there has certainly never a shortage of imagery. In fact, Yahoo! estimates we'll take 880 billion digital photos in 2014. Our challenge has never been a lack of...
View Article3 Principles For Perfect Typeface Pairing
The number of amazing typefaces keeps growing and growing — there are new ones debuting every single day. It’s easy to get distracted and select your favorite fonts at random to use in your work....
View ArticleDesigner Must Reads: Don’t Make Me Think Revisited
Back in May, I wrote a review of the classic UX book by Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think. After reading the review, Steve was kind enough to send me the updated version, written in late 2013, as named...
View ArticleFighting Spiders and the London Underground Map
Sometimes the best way to do great design is to NOT be a designer. Fresh eyes. Fewer rules. This is one of the most famous pieces of graphic design from the last century. It's the London Tube Map...
View ArticleGenerating Responsive Image Assets with Photoshop CC 2014
Or making the right asset for the right device Five years ago the web was a more predictable place, wasn't it? As web developers, we could reasonably expect web browsers no narrower than 640 pixels,...
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