December 26, 2012 in Learn
5 Design Tips Every Developer Should Know
Great code and great design need each other to work well. Unfortunately, people with poor visual design skills often think they lack natural ability. In other words, there’s a common belief that you’re either born with the gift of aesthetic…
December 20, 2012 in Learn
Responsive Design of the Future with Flexbox
In CSS, float and clear serve for layout much the same way as the tables they replaced: As stand-ins that work well enough. But they’re still limited. One proposed solution is called the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module, commonly called…
December 14, 2012 in Learn
What’s the Difference Between Fixed, Fluid, Adaptive, and Responsive Web Design?
As a web designer, it’s important to embrace that your website is going to look different in various browsers and on different devices. Focus on making your website change layout to match the device that your visitors are viewing it…
December 5, 2012 in
Learn How to Quickly Design and Build Your Own Website
Be a part of the global conversation with your own website. Treehouse helps you learn the critical skills to create your own website fast, while avoiding many of the common pitfalls. This Treehouse Tool Kit will give you the edge…
September 10, 2012 in Learn
Responsive Web Design in the Browser Part 1: Kill Photoshop
If you’re like me, then you’ve had a love/hate relationship with Photoshop for almost a decade. The software is bloated, it crashes right at the moment you forgot to hit save, and it produces a design that is nothing more…
August 8, 2012 in Learn
Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned web professional, creating responsive designs can be confusing at first, mostly because of the radical change in thinking that’s required. As time goes on, responsive web design is drifting away from the pool…
October 5, 2011 in Learn
iOS Design Patterns: Target-action (Part 1)
A design pattern is defined as a solution template to a recurring problem. This is a multi-part series of posts where we’ll look at the fundamental design patterns used within the iOS framework. Anyone getting started with iOS development would…
August 9, 2011 in Learn
Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned web professional, creating responsive designs can be confusing at first, mostly because of the radical change in thinking that’s required. As time goes on, responsive web design is drifting away from the pool…
May 19, 2011 in Learn
Mediaqueri.es: a collection of responsive web designs
Came across this wonderful site called mediaqueri.es The site contains a curated collection of responsive web designs and is aptly named after a feature of CSS3 which is called Media Queries. You can sort the list of sites by date…
February 10, 2011 in Learn
Gawker Media's Redesign
This past Monday, Gawker Media rolled out a redesign of all the sites in their network. A two-column, app-like interface has replaced their previous layout, placing heavy focus on a “splash” story with scrolling headlines in the sidebar. For reference,…
January 25, 2011 in Learn
Why Is Chinese Web Design So Bad?
I’d like to begin with a disclaimer. My opinions on the following topic are merely that, opinions. Opinions formed by observations and interactions with the Chinese culture over a brief period of about two years during my time living in…
February 17, 2010 in Learn
5 Good Reasons Why Designers Should Code
Earlier today Elliot Jay Stocks commented on Twitter I’m shocked that in 2010 I’m still coming across ‘web designers’ who can’t code their own designs. His comment created a great little debate on Twitter. Personally, I agree with Elliot. I…