As users vie for badges and mayorship on FourSquare, and boast about achievements on XBox Live, one thing has become amply clear: gamification is here to stay. Categorically defined, gamification is the use of game…
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You (the Designer) and I (the Client), We Make a Team
It takes more than compelling content and intelligent coding to produce a great website. A successful relationship between a designer and a client is, perhaps, just as imperative. Take a look through your portfolio. Are…
Developing a WordPress Theme with a Responsive Framework: Guidelines and Things to Avoid
One of the biggest emerging web design trends of the present decade is “responsive design.” This type of web design is virtually a direct response to the proliferation of mobile devices around the world, whether…
Subtle UI Improvements
Sometimes the best user interface elements are the ones we barely notice. They’re so subtle, so masterfully crafted, that we don’t even recognise how much thought, care and attention has gone into creating them –…
JavaScript Code Debugging for Beginners
Scripting has become an entire class of web development unto itself. With modern day libraries prominently including jQuery we are seeing more HTML/CSS developers taking an interest in coding JavaScript. Admittedly it can be tough…
What is .htaccess?
One of the most common files found on most web hosting servers also happens to be one of the least understood, especially for a large number of novice web hosting clients and website administrators. That…
Don’t Just Wireframe – Tell the Design Story
The growth of the User Experience Design field is astonishing, but well deserved. Thanks to UX Designers all over the world, the quality of products has increased dramatically. Design really does matter now. It’s not…
The Parallax Scrolling Effect: 40 Examples and Tutorials
In this round up, we have some fantastic examples and uses of the parallax effect for you. The parallax scrolling effect, now a firm design trend, is a technique that uses multiple background images that…
The 10 Commandments of Web Design
As creative a field as it may be, web design is nevertheless bound by certain time-honored rules and best practices, and abusing them can jeopardize a site’s design and usability foundations. While designers should always…
A Collection Of Fresh Web UI Kits
Today, we have a comprehensive collection of web UI kits and templates for you. All of the kits are editable, in .psd format and all are perfect for creating low-fidelity web mockups. you will not…
