Tinker, Tailor, Content Strategist

A content strategy must achieve a harmonic balance between business goals, editorial mission, user expectations, design vision, the content production process, and technological capabilities. By A List Apart

An Event Apart: Content First

In his opening keynote at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA 2012 Jeffrey Zeldman talked about the need to keep content front and center in Web sites and the Web design process. By Luke Wroblewski

For a Future-Friendly Web

It is time to move toward a future-friendly web. Our current device landscape is a plethora of desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablets, feature phones, smartphones, and more, but this is just the beginning. By A List Apart

Future-Ready Content

From responsive web design to futurefriend.ly thinking, we’re moving quickly toward a web that’s more fluid, less fixed, and more easily accessed on a multitude of devices. By A List Apart

The Web OS is Already Here…

Web technologies are currently powering content and interactions across multiple devices effectively turning the most popular native applications into Web browsers. The end result is a widely distributed and used Web-based operating system. Just not the one you imagined. By Luke Wroblewski

The Art Of Launching An App: A Case Study

You’ve made your first app! Now what? Anyone in the app business knows that marketing an app is tough. By Smashing UX Design

UI Patterns For Mobile Apps: Search, Sort And Filter

Before you ever try to design a search interface for any platform, buy and read these two books: Search Patterns: Design for Discovery by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender, and Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success by Greg Nudelman. By Smashing UX Design

CSS Sprites Revisited

While the theory behind CSS sprites is easy enough and its advantages are clear, they still prove to be too bothersome to implement, especially when time is short and deadlines are looming. By Smashing Coding

Building Emotion Into Your Websites

Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. By Smashing UX Design

Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

If you’re unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation. By Smashing Coding

Speech Bubble User Flow

 

The Speech Bubble User Flow by Barnabas, is a hybrid representation that combines a sitemap, persona and user flow all into one. The idea starts off by overlaying simple and short comments made by a persona in the form speech bubbles on top of a structured sitemap. By Wireframes

Guided Tour Through Web Design History

Web design has been with us for a bit longer than 20 years now and sure, it is easy to criticize poorly designed websites nowadays, but few people really know how and where it all started. By 1st Webdesigner

A Handy Guide to Better User Experience

In simplest terms, UX, also known as user experience or user usability is the way most basic users feel about using an application, a program, a website or anything. User Experience is based on the reactions and responses the user performs and provides. By 1st Webdesigner

How To Grow as a Designer by Building Your Own Network

Being part of a web design and development community offers you many possibilities and chances for self-development. By 1st Webdesigner

Cool Tips and Resources to Make Your Website Tablet-Friendly

 

Is your website ready for the Tablet Revolution? Unless you are one of those Doomsday Preppers and you’ve been living in your bug out bunker for the past few weeks, you know iPad 3 just hit the market, and people are going crazy over it. By 1st Webdesigner

18 Hosted CMS to Solve Your Needs and Grant You Unlimited Jedi Power

When it comes to choosing a CMS, there are a lot of options to choose from. One can go with traditional ones, such as WordPress, Drupal or Joomla! Alternatively, one can opt for a hosted solution too. By 1st Webdesigner

Guide to User Flow – The “Foolishly Ignored” Backbone of Website Design

User Experience, Responsive Web Design and similar terms have made such a serious impact on the lives of web designers that they have almost forgotten the core of website design – User Flow. By 1st Webdesigner

Proper Typography for a Successful Design

Basically, typography is the art and technique of arranging typefaces for communication purposes. In other words, typography is a simple arrangement in order to transmit a message, while good typography is the attention to visual accuracy and details, even the small ones. By 1st Webdesigner

7 Mistakes that Force Potential Clients to Dislike Your Portfolio

A portfolio is a collection of documents, works, progresses and basically everything you’ve done and want to show off. The point of a portfolio is to assist you in the process of presenting your skills, knowledge and experience. By 1st Webdesigner

Mobile UI Design Patterns: 10+ Sites for Inspiration

Mobile apps and sites have unique UI design requirements because, compared to their desktop counterparts, they’re used in smaller screens and, at least with today’s modern mobile devices, rely on fingers instead of a keyboard and mouse as input mechanisms. By Six Revisions