October 12, 2012 — Kris Niles shares the top five reasons why their user experience (UX) team at Citrix (which consists of about 20 designers, researchers and editors, working on Web, desktop and mobile applications) uses Fireworks. He’ll illustrate his points with a few practical examples, as well as examples from other design firms. Read more…

October 11, 2012 — Dmitry Fadeyev examines how the desire to build a large audience by giving away your products and services free of charge can cause conflicts of interest. Spoiler alert: Free products themselves are not the problem. Read more…

October 10, 2012 — Lean UX is an approach that quickly followed the lean startup movement. It is not a new thing. It’s just a new name for things that were always around. This article takes the principles of the lean startup and suggests their UX research equivalents. Read more…

October 10, 2012 — What hacks are WordPress users particularly vulnerable to? How do they get in? What do they do to a WordPress website? Siobhan McKeown provides more context about the things you need to protect yourself from. Read more…

October 9, 2012 — A free set of icons related to movies and television, designed by Samuray and released for you! 10 images related to film, movies and the movie-going experience. Read more…

October 9, 2012 — In this post, Rodney Rehm focuses on how to make your code accessible to other developers. Discover the most important things that you will need to consider before and while writing your own utilities and libraries. Read more…

October 8, 2012 — Navigation menus are elements that can change dramatically in responsive websites. The change from a large context to a small context often requires changing the navigation pattern to something rarely seen on the Web until the arrival of responsive design. Read more…

October 5, 2012 — When it comes to mobile, we wonder whether our clients’ excitement and our own desires are hindering our ability to make rational business decisions. We need to ensure that we do not push solutions onto our clients that they do not yet need. Read more…

October 4, 2012 — Name a color, and you’re most likely to give a misleading impression. But, when computers name a color, they use a so-called hexadecimal code that most humans gloss over: 24-bit colors. Don’t let the code intimidate you. With a little creativity, hex colors are a tool at your disposal. Read more…

October 3, 2012 — Designer Stefan Sagmeister gained recognition for his unique, and often provocative, visual explorations. We bring you another timeless and in English previously unpublished interview conducted by Spyros Zevelakis, when he met with Austrian-born Stefan Sagmeister at TypoBerlin ’Image’ in 2008. Read more…