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  • Get started with jQuery Masonry

    Tutorial

    Get started with jQuery Masonry

    Luke Shumard provides a crash-course in David DeSandro’s Masonry

    3 Aug 2012

    Luke Shumard provides a crash-course in David DeSandro’s Masonry, a jQuery plug-in that’s ideal for both novice and intermediate web designers
  • 10 steps to get designs signed off and keep your client happy

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    10 steps to get designs signed off and keep your client happy

    Designer Joey Rabbitt shares some techniques he learned over the years

    3 Aug 2012

    Joey Rabbitt, a web designer and frontend developer currently working for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, shares some techniques to keep the client sign-off process smooth
  • Agile agency collaboration with huge corporations

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    Agile agency collaboration with huge corporations

    Customer liason doesn't always have to be a them and us affair

    2 Aug 2012

    By Jonty Sharples on
    Jonty Sharples explains how working for a giant client doesn't always have to be a matter of them and us
  • Customise the WordPress admin area

    Tutorial

    Customise the WordPress admin area

    Thomas Hardy shows you how to restyle the popular CMS

    2 Aug 2012

    Tailor the Administration Screens in WordPress to match your client's branding with Thomas Hardy's guide to customising the popular CMS
  • Design for life

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    Design for life

    How do you keep people using your products throughout their life?

    1 Aug 2012

    By Matt Rook on
    How do you keep people using your products throughout the different stages of their life? Matt Rook of XO Group Inc has some suggestions
  • New tools for web design and development: July 2012

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    New tools for web design and development: July 2012

    Mark Penfold serves up another 10 hot releases for designers and devs

    1 Aug 2012

    This month, Mark Penfold's round-up of the best new tools ranges from cutting-edge experiments to down-to-earth utilities. Give them a try: they're all free
  • A Future Friendly workflow

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    A future friendly workflow

    Luke Brooker explains how Future Friendly can help adjust the workflow

    31 Jul 2012

    By Luke Brooker on
    User experience director Luke Brooker explains the thinking behind the Future Friendly initiative and how it can help adjust your workflow
  • Make a CSS animated sprite in Photoshop

    Tutorial

    Make a CSS animated sprite in Photoshop

    How to produce a retro gaming-inspired sprite

    31 Jul 2012

    By Sam Hampton-Smith on
    With new CSS features come opportunities to animate without the need for script. Sam Hampton-Smith demonstrates how to produce a retro gaming-inspired sprite
  • Andy Budd on the rise of user experience

    Interview

    Andy Budd on the rise of user experience

    Clearleft’s MD talks about the state of the user experience profession

    30 Jul 2012

    If you want to know about the state of the user experience profession today, Andy Budd is the man to ask. Clearleft’s MD talks to Tom May about the rise in demand for UX skills, the lack of good practitioners and abuse of the term ‘Lean UX’
  • Practical tips for improving site navigation

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    Practical tips for improving site navigation

    Louis Rosenfeld explains how to make your site easier to navigate

    30 Jul 2012

    By Louis Rosenfeld on
    Site Search Analytics (SSA) can help make your site easier to navigate. In this exclusive excerpt from his book, Search Analytics For Your Site, Louis Rosenfeld explains how
  • W3C’s Ian Jacobs on the future of HTML5

    Interview

    W3C's Ian Jacobs on the future of HTML5

    Stability, faster processes and sponsorship deals

    27 Jul 2012

    By Craig Grannell on
    Stability, faster processes and sponsorship deals
  • How we built MSN UK's responsive Olympics site

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    How we built MSN UK's responsive Olympics site

    Matt Clark explains the design process for a demanding responsive site

    27 Jul 2012

    By Matt Clark on
    Governor Technology was recently tasked by MSN UK to create a responsive site for its coverage of the London 2012 Olympics. Matt Clark explains how it rose to the challenge
  • Web Intents: the future of web apps

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    Web Intents: the future of web apps

    A brand new way of making web apps interoperable

    26 Jul 2012

    By Richard Cobbett on
    There’s a brand new way of making web apps interoperable … or there will be, if everyone can agree how it needs to be done. Richard Cobbett reports
  • Let's kill the UX department

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    Let's kill the UX department!

    User experience skills are in high demand, low supply, says Chad Vavra

    26 Jul 2012

    Chad Vavra says his greatest accomplishment as a user experience director will be the death of his department and claims demand for UX specialists will lessen
  • Mike Monteiro on handling clients

    Interview

    Mike Monteiro on handling clients

    Mule design director on working with clients, freelancing and pitching

    25 Jul 2012

    By Tanya Combrinck on
    Mike Monteiro, author of the much celebrated Design is a Job, fields your questions about freelancing, approaching pitching - and how to tell when the time is right to fire a client
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