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Building An App In 45 Minutes With Meteor

From Sacha Greif
June 13th, 2013
23 Comments

The other day, I finally accomplished one of my long-standing goals: I was able to go from one of those “wouldn’t it be cool if…” ideas to a working, live app in less than 1 hour. 45 minutes, actually. It all started with a design meet-up in San Francisco. I can ...

Front-End Ops

From Alex Sexton
June 11th, 2013
25 Comments

When a team builds a complex application, there is often a common breakdown of roles. Specifically on the back end, there are database engineers, application engineers and operations engineers, or something close to this. In recent years, more and more application logic is being deferred to the client side. For some ...

Open Device Labs: Why Should We Care?

From Anselm Hannemann
May 28th, 2013
15 Comments

With all of the different smartphones, tablets and other devices that sport various operating systems and versions thereof, a Web developer’s job — testing (sometimes virtually) on multiple devices to resolve errors — hasn’t become any simpler. This article suggests how we can manage these tasks without pouring a truck-load ...

Case StudyTypographic Design Patterns And Current Practices (2013 Edition)

From Jan Constantin
May 17th, 2013
48 Comments

Good typography has always been a defining aspect of effective Web design, and this holds true especially for websites in which the emphasis is on presenting a large amount of content — specifically, articles, news and stories. Whether for a magazine or international newspaper, the designer of any website that distributes ...

New Defaults In Web DesignHow Much Has The Web Really Changed?

From Vasilis van Gemert
May 6th, 2013
58 Comments

Responsive design is about more than just layout; it’s about designing for the Web, which means, mostly, for people with browsers. And that’s just about everything we know about the people who visit our websites: they are probably using a browser. All the rest we just don’t know. Up until not ...

Content Knowledge Is Power

From Sara Wachter-Boettcher
April 29th, 2013
6 Comments

“Content matters!” “Comp with real copy!” “Have a plan!” By now, you’ve probably heard the refrain: making mobile work is hard if you don’t consider your content. But content knowledge isn’t just about ditching lorem ipsum in a couple of comps. Countless organizations now have a decade or two’s worth of ...

Is Photoshop Really Dead?Repurposing Photoshop For The Web

From Dan Rose
April 22nd, 2013
81 Comments

Like any overzealous teenager aspiring to be a Web designer back in 1999, I found myself in an “Electronic Design” class, behind the wheel of one of those old-school aqua iMacs. If you found yourself in a similar situation, chances are you were given Adobe Photoshop as your vehicle for ...

Mobile Is Not An Add-OnHow To Sell The Value Of Mobile To Clients

From Mark Reeves
April 5th, 2013
23 Comments

As Web designers and developers, we see the value in supporting mobile devices every day. We’re well-versed in tactics and techniques for adapting our work to mobile. Our challenge is to be equally well-versed in selling our clients on that value as being something in which they need to invest ...

When Traditional Solutions Fall ShortNavigation For Mega-Sites

From Paul Boag
March 27th, 2013
47 Comments

For most websites, navigation is not particularly challenging. A primary navigation bar, supported by sub-navigation, is often enough. Typically, sub-navigation displays the parent, siblings and children of the current page. A persistent primary navigation bar shows top-level pages, allowing users to move between sections. However, there is one class of website ...

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