A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services

BBC put together a great overview of their visual design language and its evolution. By Bronwyn van der Merwe

Multiscreen authoring with CSS3

Multiscreen authoring is a challenge for our design customers, whether they are visual designers or web designers.

10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines

Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making your pages easy and enjoyable for your visitors to use is key. By Dimitry Fadeyev

10 Tips for Creating Calls to Action That Convert

If your site visitor has to figure out what to do next on your site there is a good chance that they will leave. It might be easier to check out the next site found in the search engine results. By Stephanie Woods

OpenFaces

An open-source library of AJAX-powered JavaServer Faces (JSF) components, an Ajax framework and a client-side validation framework: OpenFaces

21 Resources Especially for Lovers of Minimalism

Minimalism a popular style of design because it keeps things simple and user-friendly. By Vandelay Design

A Look into Color Theory in Web Design

Unarguably one of the most important aspects of any design is its colors. Designers create the style of a site, as well as the movement it makes, the emotion it creates, and its purpose based largely upon the color choices they make. By Shannon Noack

The Ingredients of a Successful Website

Jacob Gube shares his thoughts on what he considers to be the ingredients of success and growth for Six Revisions.

35 Beautiful E-Commerce Websites

Despite any financial recession and economic stress, online purchasing continues to grow. Expansion of the market and evolving technology that simplifies our daily lives help to set the pace of e-commerce design. Julia May

Create a Clean and Professional Web Design in Photoshop

In this Photoshop web design tutorial you'll see how to design a smashing, clean, and professional website layout in Photoshop. The layout in this tutorial can be used as personal or corporate website design. By Waheed Akhtar

+40 best icons packs that webdesigners should have

When you create a new template you have to think about lot of things : the colors, the pictures, the texts, the links etc. For each of them, there is one thing particularly complex and difficult to do...the creation and use of icons in webdesign. By 2Expertdesign

Get More From Your Site’s Visual Acreage

One of the most important, and sometimes most difficult, parts of web design is deciding what to do with the space that is given you. By Joseph Alessio

10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know

Web developers these days are often expected to know and work in multiple languages. As a result, it’s tricky to learn everything a language has to offer and easy to find yourself not utilizing the full potential of some more specialized but very useful tags. By Glen Stansberry

How to Create a Simple iTunes-like Slider

When space is at a premium, making use of sliders is the optimal way to present information. By Siddharth

Handy Tools and Tips for E-Commerce Websites

Running an e-commerce website is a never-ending task, from trying to squeeze that extra bit of conversion rate out of the check-out page to figuring out which referrers give you the best traffic. There’s also a plethora of tools out there to help you achieve your goals. But which ones do what, and why should you use some of them? By Rob Smith

55 Latest Examples of Perfect Slideshow Presentation in Web Design

There are many reasons to use a slideshow or image slider in your web designs as the key to smart strategic web design is finding a smartest and interactive way to display your information to your visitors. By Dkumar M

Designers: How to Search For, Hire, and Work With a Web-Developer

The market for freelance web design is huge. Being able to design a beautiful site in Photoshop is one thing. Programming a website is a whole other story. By Brian Casel

The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials

Here's a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing for the Web. By Callum Chapman

30+ High-Quality Free PSD Website Templates to Download

When it comes to designing a website Photoshop is an excellent tool for it. Here are 30+ quality PSD web templates to download. By Deep

Isometric Experience Maps

This interview is a transcript of a discussion between Nathan Curtis, creator of EightShapes Unify, and Jason Wishard, an interaction designer at EightShapes.

Additional information here.

Classifying Experiences

From ‘user experiences’ to ‘The Experience Economy’ to ‘designing for experiences,” not to mention “brand experiences,” “customer experience management,” and “experiential marketing”— experiences are definitely the topic du jour. By Poetpainter

Frameworks, Experience Modeling, Systems Thinking, and So On…

Experience Modeling can be used to distill and visually communicate key experiential elements gathered from ethnographic observations. By Poetpainter

[IA Summit 2008] 'Managing A Strategic UX Team' Model

If you’re managing (or part of) a team inside of a large corporate organization, then you’re familiar with the difficulties of juggling strategic and tactical concerns. By Poetpainter

The Fundamentals of Experience Design

Whether we are designing a Web app or new office building, simply ask: Who are the people we are designing for? What is the activity (or activities) they are trying to do? And what are the contexts in which they are trying to operate? And ‘people’ can be an individual or group. It’s that simple. By Poetpainter

102 Respected Designers You Should Follow On Twitter

Gustavs Jurisons provides a great list of designers to follow on Twitter.

Realism in UI Design

The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects, shadows, translucency, and even simple physics. Some of these changes have helped usability. By Lukas Mathis

Onboarding: Designing Welcoming First Experiences

Most companies think that getting people to sign up is the ultimate challenge, but what about getting them oriented to your site and actually using it? That process of helping people get started is called onboarding, and it's crucial that you give it the attention it deserves. By Whitney Hess

How to Add a Background Image with CSS

Background images, just as the name implies, are part of the BACKGROUND of a website, not part of the actual content. The most common place to add a background image to, is the entire canvas – aka the body tag. By CSSTUTORIAL.net

Elements of PHP

PHP is a scripting language used widely on the Web. With it, you can query other servers, create and process HTML pages and forms, open and write to files on your server, and perform many other essential server-side web development tasks. By Darrin Koltow

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Fantastic Content Sliders for your Inspiration

Sliders can be great focal points on websites and blogs as they instantly draw the audience’s attention and provide for an easy and sleek way for visitors to interact with a lot of information that can be sorted through quickly. By Webdesigner Depot

How to Build a Footer That Doesn’t Stink

As the first thing visitors see, home pages and headers often steal the design spotlight.

But above-the-fold thinking neglects the natural flow of vertical page layout. What happens when people reach the end of a page? By Ben Gremillion

10 Simple Tips for Launching a Website

The process of launching a website can be a daunting endeavor. There are many things you want to do, but not enough time and resources to do them. By Jacob Gube

The basics of CSS3

Here's a post on the basics of the new properties: text-shadow, box-shadow, and border-radius. These CSS3 properties are commonly used to enhance layout and good to know. By Web Designer Wall

Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead

Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors.

Web Design Criticism: A How-To

Web design is a relatively young field. It’s youthful, growing and made up of people from all kinds of backgrounds, many of whom lack formal design training. We have learned, and still are learning, as we go. By D. Keith Robinson

Print Magazines for Web Designers, Digital Artists, and Photographers

Although much valuable information for all sorts of web and print professionals can be found online, it is often difficult to weed through all the noise and find good quality content. By Louis Lazaris