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A Critical Approach To Typefaces
I’ve always wondered, “What is it that makes a typeface or any other design good?” However simplistic this question may seem to typographers, it is a legitimate question many of us are trying to...
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Designing An Open-Source iPhone Game
I love games and I’m a huge math nerd, so I made a new iPhone game based on a famous math problem called The Seven Bridges of Königsberg. I’m selling it in the App Store, but I also want to share...
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Opinion Column: Designing In The Transition To A Multi-Device World
When I think about where we are with the Web in comparison to other media in history, pinpointing it is really hard. Is it like when the Gutenberg Press was just invented and we’re experimenting...
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Quick Tip: The HTML5 Context Menu Attribute
In this quick tip I want to talk to you about one of HTML5s hidden beauties, the contextmenu. You have probably never heard of it before, but I assure you it is one of those attributes that could be...
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Web Content Optimization: Setting Weights And Styles With The @font-face...
If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way,...
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Mechanism Of Action And Effects: Designing Great Feedback Loops
The products we build are full of feedback loops, whether we know it or not. People who study human behavior agree that feedback loops play a critical role in what we do. From biofeedback to the...
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Converting The Prototype: iOS Prototyping With Adobe Fireworks And TAP (Part 3)
In the previous parts of this tutorial (part 1 and part 2), we looked in detail at the building blocks of our design in Fireworks (pages, shared layers, symbols, styles), and we started to make a...
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Designing For The Reading Experience
With the rise of Web fonts as well as affordable hosted Web font services and ready-made kits, typography is reclaiming its title as design queen, ruler of all graphic and Web design. At the same...
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Maintainable Code: Using White Space For Readability In HTML And CSS
Right up front, I’ll offer some simple advice: In production, your code should be as performance-friendly as possible. This means, Gzip’ing, concatenating and minifying as many assets as possible,...
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Building Trust And Credibility: How To Sell Your UX Design Solution To Clients
How do you convince clients to trust you with their valuable and much-loved product? In my experience, the best way to sell work to clients is to apply user-centered design not only to the work we...
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