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The Do’s and Don’ts of Building HTML5 Hybrid Apps

The Do’s and Don’ts of Building HTML5 Hybrid Apps

Web Design

In the beginning there was native code and it was good. Then PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Trigger.io, AppGyver and others emerged, ushering in the “native or hybrid” debate. If you aren’t familiar…

Optimizing Typography in Responsive Web Design

Optimizing Typography in Responsive Web Design

UI Design

Each time a discussion pops up about responsive design, the common terminology and concepts that get the maximum attention include grids and images, and obviously the settings like fluid or…

Tracking Events Responsively With The New Google Analytics

Tracking Events Responsively With The New Google Analytics

Web Design

Remember last year, when mobile-specific sites were hot and everyone wanted that specialized “mobile-tuned” presence online? How quickly things change. Skip ahead 493 days and here we are, smack in…

Great Names in Graphic Design: Anton Stankowski

Great Names in Graphic Design: Anton Stankowski

Design

Anton Stankowski (1906 – 1998) is universally acclaimed as one of the greatest and most influential names in late-modernist art. Alexander Eckstein explains why. Anton Stankowski was an eminent late…

Cut Your Page’s Loading Time In Half With Some Simple jQuery

Cut Your Page’s Loading Time In Half With Some Simple jQuery

JavaScript

It is a popular trend at the moment to use almost full-page high-resolution super-large images on your portfolio, which does work effectively as it focuses the user on your best…

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

UX Design

Pricing isn’t an art anymore. It’s a science with some well-documented and researched principles on how people think and compare when offered multiple options. Here’s the good news: although pricing…

Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Web Design

Imagine you had a child who just finished learning addition and subtraction. You gave him a math task at home to test his skills and he solved the task successfully!…

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?

Design / Web Design

Here’s a question that has been talked about many times, usually resulting in both sides coming away feeling angry and misunderstood. Why can’t developers and designers get along? Now, obviously…

Sleek and Greasy – The UX of Fast Food Homepages

Sleek and Greasy – The UX of Fast Food Homepages

UX Design

No matter how you slice it, the crux of the fast food industry is cheap, unhealthy food served fast. Marketing campaigns have been launched to convince patrons to wait a…

Lessons Learned From an Experienced Freelancer

Lessons Learned From an Experienced Freelancer

Freelance Design

As freelancers navigate their way into the world of contracted work, there are a variety of good times and bad times. The good times in particular involve a steady list…

25 Remarkable Examples of Symmetry in Web Design

25 Remarkable Examples of Symmetry in Web Design

Inspiration / Web Design

Perfect symmetry means having two sides of an item that when folded together will form half of a single object or shape, meeting perfectly together in the center. In web…

Does the Web Design Work?

Does the Web Design Work?

UX Design
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