Posts Tagged ‘Web Design’
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Function Over FormDesigning For The Reading Experience
- February 18th, 2013
- 19 Comments
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 time, for far too many designers, the main concern about typography today seems to be ...
Read more...Opinion ColumnDesigning In The Transition To A Multi-Device World
- February 13th, 2013
- 13 Comments
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 with movable type, or are we still embellishing pages and slavishly copying books by hand? Our ...
Read more...Beyond The NoiseA Critical Approach To Typefaces
- February 12th, 2013
- 16 Comments
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 answer. After several years working as a professional type designer, teaching, and running a type foundry, I ...
Read more...Navigation PatternsExploration Of Single-Page Websites
- November 5th, 2012
- 47 Comments
We tend to think of navigating a website as clicking from page-to-page via some kind of global navigation that’s always visible. When it comes to a single page, we often think scrolling is the one and only way to move from one end to the next. Sometimes global navigation and ...
Read more...A Designer's PleaWhy Should Web Design Be A Profession?
- October 30th, 2012
- 48 Comments
When one goes to the professional, one expects to invest in his expertise. This investment requires no great leap of faith, as it is supported by a trust acknowledged among the general populace and duly warranted by the traditions of the profession. The standards and practices of an individual professional ...
Read more...Community StrengthThe Immersive Web And Design Writing
- October 18th, 2012
- 17 Comments
I have an idea for a new product — can I tell you about it? It will take months to develop, and even though this kind of thing is usually given away for free, I’m going to charge for it. Oh, and the market for it probably won’t be very ...
Read more...Design ProcessEncouraging Better Client Participation In Responsive Design Projects
- September 28th, 2012
- 27 Comments
Last week at the fabulous Smashing Conference in Freiburg, I gave a new talk, one I’d written just a few hours prior. I chose not to use slides, but instead to speak about three things that I’m incredibly enthusiastic about: Responsive design is not (just) a design or development problem; ...
Read more...Is Web Design 95% Typography?One More Time: Typography Is The Foundation Of Web Design
- July 24th, 2012
- 34 Comments
For years you have been searching for it. You hear the question being asked in your dreams as you go on an Indiana-Jones-type-crusade to find the answer. When the answer comes to you, you know that the confetti will fall from the ceiling and the band will start playing your ...
Read more...MUD: Minimum Usable Design
- May 29th, 2012
- 32 Comments
There is a paradox that fits my life. Doesn’t matter what aspect of my life I am talking about because it always seems to apply. Even more so when I think about this paradox and the design of this website and other websites. I really hate this paradox. “To walk through ...
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