Jeremy Girard has had the opportunity to lead various Web design and development teams, including a number of professionals fresh out of school. Along the way, he learned some valuable lessons. So, he decided to make a list of some of those lessons, as a way to remind himself of what he needed to do to make sure his designers had the resources needed to succeed. Many of these lessons were actually common sense, and these common-sense lessons are exactly the ones that are easy to neglect and that we often need to be reminded of.
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Developing an application in HTML5 is a way to leverage code across multiple platforms, rather than having to write the application from scratch for each platform. As such, much of the user interface would be done in HTML. It’s important to understand the benefits each potential development strategy affords. As an app developer you have the ultimate decision on what strategy best suits the needs of your application. Test early, and test often, across a variety of devices. Keep your technology choices open and flexible to reap the rewards of a hybrid experience.
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I don’t know about you, but I wake up every morning with at least 10 emails that I didn’t have when I went to sleep. While most people probably know that these emails aren’t being sent manually by some sleep-deprived, coffee-fuelled intern, many people don’t understand the ins and outs of the systems that automate tasks such as sending email.
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These websites have some captivating interactivity; however, the selection of type and the typographic styling and spacing are the reasons why we chose them for this piece. We focus on typography and on how engaging it can be; hopefully, this article will draw your attention to some of the minutiae involved in effective typography, and move you to continue on your own thought-provoking journey through the typographic details of other websites.
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Simon Schmid has been fascinated by little things that make a big impact on the web, which is one of the reasons why he started blogging about these details. Some of the recurring topics early on were the strategies that creators use to expand the reach of their websites, the campaign page and launch and landing pages. In this post, you’ll learn what to look out for when creating your own small campaign.
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Konstantin Lebedev used to work at Mail.Ru, which had a Flash uploader that was rather good, but still had some problems. He and his team realized that they needed to build something new and different. This article covers all of their steps in creating what they considered to be a better tool for the job. Here’s a list of features that they wanted to have with a new approach to this problem!
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In part one of this series, we got a customized magazine app for Windows 8 up and running. In this second and last part, we will look at how our magazine app obtains the articles to be shown, examine the transport protocol and set up a live content host. When done, our HTML5-based magazine app will essentially be ready to submit to the Windows Store.
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Is sketching by hand more than a nostalgic activity? How is paper any different from a screen, especially when hardware is becoming more and more sophisticated? Is improving your hand-sketching skills really worthwhile when high-tech software is advancing every day?
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WordPress is a powerful platform for managing content, which makes it perfect for carrying out a process of ongoing conversion rate optimization. Implementing the steps that we’ll outline below would be difficult and would probably necessitate the involvement of a professional developer. But if you can handle the day-to-day running of a WordPress installation, then you won’t have much trouble following this article and implementing its suggestions.
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Things such as group brainstorming, on-the-fly presentations and open workspaces have become the norm in most design agencies. But the stereotypical extrovert is just one of the personalities that make up a successful team. A lot of people who excel at and are passionate about design are actually introverts. So, how can we better balance our teams and elevate extroverts and introverts alike? As introverted UX designers ourselves, we’ve been unsurprisingly passionate about finding answers to this conundrum.
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