Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force

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October 3, 2019 — In this fifth installment of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will teach you about Bea Feitler, who directed Harper’s Bazaar throughout the 1960s and has been described as “the pioneering female ... Read More…

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Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch

September 5, 2019 — In this fourth instalment of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will teach you how scattering images will fill your designs with movement. Learn how to mirror pictures and text, and how to carve text into shapes using CSS Shapes. Read More…

Christoph Erdmann wrote

Faster Image Loading With Embedded Image Previews

August 23, 2019 — The Embedded Image Preview (EIP) technique introduced in this article allows us to load preview images during lazy loading using progressive JPEGs, Ajax and HTTP range requests without having to transfer additional data. Read More…

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Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal

August 8, 2019 — In this third instalment of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will teach you how to use frameworks to create layouts as engaging as in the well-known Ernest Journal. All it takes is an understanding of layout design and imagination. Read More…

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Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters

July 11, 2019 — In this second installment of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will teach you how to expand your repertoire of layouts by combining more than one grid into a compound grid. This article will change the way you think about designing with grids. Read More…

Suzanne Scacca wrote

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

June 26, 2019 — Web developers know what they’re doing in terms of optimizing a website for page speed, but is it enough in Google’s eyes? When it comes to mobile loading speeds, your website can always be faster. Find out how. Read More…

Danny Cooper wrote

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

June 20, 2019 — Google Fonts are easy to implement, but they can have a big impact on your page load times. Let’s explore how we can load them in the most optimal way. Read More…

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Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine

June 13, 2019 — This is the first edition of Inspired Design Decisions in which Andy Clarke explains how to design and implement skinny columns using meaningful markup and efficient CSS. Read More…

Aaron Pearlman wrote

UX Optimizations For Keyboard-Only And Assistive Technology Users

June 11, 2019 — Accessibility forces you to see and think about your application beyond the typical sighted, mouse-based user experience. In this article, we’ll dig into some specific, practical examples. Read More…

Adelina Țucă wrote

Image Optimization In WordPress

June 6, 2019 — In this article, Adelina Țucă explains how you can easily optimize all the images on your website (manually or on autopilot) in order to gain better loading times. Read More…