February 21, 2013 — Rather than write another article on building a WordPress theme, Siobhan McKeown shares with us techniques that will help us refine our workflow, saving our time and making us more efficient on our theme development and design process. Read more…

February 20, 2013 — The best way to sell work to clients is to apply user-centered design not only to the work we produce, but also to the clients who commission that work. Our clients have their own needs that are shaped by their personalities and the political environments they work in. If we ignore that, then the best design in the world won’t mean a thing, because it will never see the light of day. Read more…

February 19, 2013 — In this article, Louis Lazaris will show us how to use white space in development code to ensure that our files are as readable and maintainable as possible. He will offer some advice on how to make our code as performance-friendly as possible. This means concatenating and minifying as many assets as possible, thus serving the smallest possible files and the least number of files. Read more…

February 18, 2013 — Typography is reclaiming its title as design queen, ruler of all graphic and web design. In this article, Marko Dugonjić teaches us how to make sure our text is as legible as possible when seen in the virtually limitless combination of variables such as space, time, cognition, social conditions and physical conditions. Read more…

February 15, 2013 — This article discusses how to influence behavior by designing well-crafted feedback loops. Assist your users in understanding and achieving their goals by continually optimizing your feedback loops. Focus on making them fast, meaningful, quantified and contextual, and your users will thank you for improving their lives. Read more…

February 15, 2013 — There are many ways to create wireframes, click-throughs and prototypes. In the end, what matters is that the process of creation is fast and accurate and that the output is of a high enough fidelity to generate the appropriate level of feedback. Read more…

February 14, 2013 — If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way, keeping text readable will help them achieve their goal. Read more…

February 14, 2013 — The most important metric when considering a mobile Web strategy and weighing responsive Web design against a separate mobile website, is how functional the website is for the user. We know that websites need to always evolve, and that it takes time to implement changes and new features. if you look at those factors in total, responsive Web design has to win out. Read more…

February 14, 2013 — Our knowledge of building digital things changes rapidly, taking us from newborn to adult and back again every couple of years. So, it seems pretty normal that our methods of designing and building websites are questioned every so often. But in this article, Francisco Inchauste will teach us some new things. Read more…

February 13, 2013 — I love games and I’m a huge math nerd, so I made a new iPhone game based on a famous math problem called The Seven Bridges of Königsberg. I’m selling it in the App Store, but I also want to share it with everyone, so I made it open source. Read more…