Defining And Applying Personas to UX Design | Webdesigntuts Personas have long been integrated with UX documentation. They help us create fictional users, representative of our real users, which we can reference throughout our creative process to inform and validate our design and UX. Let’s examine how we set up a persona and then utilize…
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Swatch Book with CSS3 and jQuery | Codrops
Swatch Book with CSS3 and jQuery | Codrops A tutorial about how to create a swatch book like component that let’s you open and rotate the single swatches revealing some details. We will be using CSS transforms and transitions and create a simple jQuery plugin.
Why Account Managers Shouldn’t Prevent Designers From Speaking To Clients | Smashing Magazine
Why Account Managers Shouldn’t Prevent Designers From Speaking To Clients | Smashing Magazine Working as a Web designer can suck sometimes. This is especially true when you don’t get to work alongside the client. Unfortunately this scenario is more common than you would think. Many organizations have been carefully structured to keep the Web designer…
3 Fast, Clean, & Efficient Online Image Optimizers To Shrink Your Images
3 Fast, Clean, & Efficient Online Image Optimizers To Shrink Your Images As a blogger and a normal guy who is running out of space on his hard drive, I am always on the lookout for a good image compression program. My software of choice for all image editing needs is of course, the Big…
Getting Started With Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) | Webdesigntuts
Getting Started With Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) | Webdesigntuts As a web designer it’s high time you knew how to implement SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) into your websites. Let’s now take a look at the basics of SVG, as well as more complex designs such as logos or icons.
Useful Tools for Collaborative Web Design Work | Awwwards
Useful Tools for Collaborative Web Design Work | Awwwards Recently, WebDesignLedger published a fantastic article that talked about the benefits of collaborative web design. It explained the beneftis of promoting teamwork, exposition of ideas, creation and expansion of knowledge, the mixture of different styles, meeting deadlines and multiple solutions to shared experiences. Awwwards supports this collaborative culture in which we believe,…
15 Gorgeous Mobile UI Designs for Your Inspiration
15 Gorgeous Mobile UI Designs for Your Inspiration Just like learning to code, the best way to improve as a designer is to learn by doing. Still, that’s not to say that admiring and even copying (aka practicing) great work can’t do wonders. More than anything, seeing what other designers have done in the past…
4 Websites For Free Contracts & Other Legal Documents
4 Websites For Free Contracts & Other Legal Documents I’m not a lawyer, nor do I want to be a lawyer. Nothing against lawyers, of course. It’s just that it’s all a little over my head. However, as we all know, hiring an attorney to do legal work can be terriblyexpensive. Take contracts for instance. That can…
Interface Trends for Designing a Social Network at DzineBlog.com – Design Blog & Inspiration
Interface Trends for Designing a Social Network at DzineBlog.com – Design Blog & Inspiration Since the initial launch of Friendster in 2002 we have seen dozens of new social networks cropping up everywhere. There are the obvious popular choices such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. But we don’t often consider some of the newer…
The History of QR Codes & How to Use Them in the Home | Apartment Therapy
The History of QR Codes & How to Use Them in the Home | Apartment Therapy QR codes have been popping up all over the place lately — on business cards, ourclothes, our stools on beer mugs, and even on the wall. But do you know where the QR code came from and why it was invented? We do…