This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Adobe Fireworks is one of the most popular application choices amongst web designers for wireframing and prototyping. There are many reasons as to why you should use Fireworks over any other graphic editor, but we won’t go into them with this post (perhaps you could try this one: A Case for Adobe Fireworks against Photoshop and Illustrator). What this post will offer is a comprehensive starting point and reference for any designer who would like to take those first Fireworks [...]

Anything that can save time for a web developer is well worth its weight in gold. Whether you’re looking to cut loading time for your website or make light work of placing interactive elements into a design, these four tools could help speed things up: YUI Compressor With more web traffic than ever coming from smartphones, it’s crucial that web developers keep code lightweight. One excellent way to cut down on bandwidth-eating excess code is to use the YUI Compressor. [...]

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

On the 23rd of October we published the competition Three Usability Testing Packages ($741 Value) from UserTesting.com. The competition has ended and it is now time to announce the winners. Thanks to everybody for all the comments. Here is a reminder of the Usability Testing Package prizes we were giving away: 2nd runner up – 1 Free UserTests (a $39 value) 1st runner up – 3 Free UserTests (a $117 value) Grand Prize – 15 Free Tests (a $585 value)!!! [...]

These days, it’s not about how much traffic you can drive to your website but how many visitors you actually turn into customers. Effective website testing, namely through multivariate testing, can help increase site performance and conversions. With multivariate testing, you experiment with a variety of options for one design element in determining the winning combination. Dramatic increases can be seen through testing different copy text, form layouts and even landing page images and background colors. From looking at the [...]

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed.

It has been a long time since we last took a look at what GUI kits were freely available. So, in this round-up we thought we would bring you right up to date by taking a look at some of the best and freshest that are freely available. Every designer who has spent many hours mocking up web pages or mobile apps will tell you how important it is to have a reliable set of re-usable, editable and uniform GUI [...]

Once upon a time, transferring just a few kilobytes of data between computers in different locations was considered near science fiction fantasy, or at least a cutting edge military computer science experiment. As our technology has evolved, the transfer of data has underpinned the backbone of our society. Let’s not forget then that those little boxes we call modems, routers and switches were all born from a need to connect teletype machines together, transferring information at a stunningly slow 25 [...]