Thoughts on why Spec Work is Bad and Why You Shouldn’t Do It

Thoughts on why Spec Work is Bad and Why You Shouldn’t Do It

Freelance

Speculative, or ‘Spec”’, work is in hot debate at the moment in the design industry. Design contest websites in particular have created a furore of debate over freelancers working initially…

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Web Design

For years the web has been a static development block for housing information. It hasn’t been up until recently that micro-format designs have been released into the semantic web. These…

Tips for Compromising Between Designers & Developers

Tips for Compromising Between Designers & Developers

Freelance / Web Design

In the real world, designers and developers are constantly battling it out over projects. Between two lighthearted developers are the crew who simply make the website work while designers add…

Do We Do Enough to Support WordPress Plugin Developers?

Do We Do Enough to Support WordPress Plugin Developers?

WordPress

A while back, the WordPress community used to be a bunch of coders that were all supporting themselves. One guy would create a nice plugin to manage the most popular…

Exploring Mobile Device & App Development Trends

Exploring Mobile Device & App Development Trends

UX Design

We have all been hearing the chatter about mobile applications. It seems 2010 has been an astounding year for development in mobile technology, both hardware, and software. Apple’s iPhone &…

An Introduction to HTML Prototyping

An Introduction to HTML Prototyping

UI Design

Since starting work as a web designer, I always have, and will always, obsess over improving my project workflow and my own design pattern, if you will. Never afraid to…

Navigation Accessibility Tips

Navigation Accessibility Tips

UX Design

Website navigation is our common communication system between all other web pages. Interlinking through unique identifiers (URLs) has worked for decades. If anything, navigation links have been with the basics…

A Call to Arms Against Unscrupulous Autobloggers

A Call to Arms Against Unscrupulous Autobloggers

News

For those that don’t already know, autoblogging is much like it sounds. It is a term that was coined around 2006 to mean that a computer can do the job…

A Quick Look Into Evocative Typography: Trends & Examples

A Quick Look Into Evocative Typography: Trends & Examples

Inspiration

Evoking emotion in your viewers can be hard, but typography gives you the advantage of words. Unlike plain old drawings, you can use words or sentences to give the viewer…

25 Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started With HTML5

25 Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started With HTML5

Web Design

By now, everyone knows about HTML5. Exciting stuff. Of course, there are two sides to the excitement. Most developers love it, others feel it has come too soon, and that…

The Beauty of Minimalist Design

The Beauty of Minimalist Design

Inspiration

Minimalism. The term is pretty divisive. Some think it’s a bunch of self-serving nonsense – a fancy label for a convoluted lifestyle design. Others swear by the principle, drastically improving…

A Review of Web Design Trends from 2010

A Review of Web Design Trends from 2010

UI Design
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