Tag Archives: UI/UX

mobile

Slide Show Time: Building a Future-Friendly Web

Embedded above is an excellent presentation by Brad Frost. Below you can find a video that goes along with the slides.
Frost’s slides and talk revolve around the idea that the web is changing too rapidly to claim we can create future-proof websites or webapps. Instead we need to think in terms of future-friendly sites. In [...]

Visual Design

Creative UX Designs to Improve Web Forms

We’ve looked at how the new HTML5 form tags improve the process of building web forms, but you don’t need to wait for better browser support to improve your forms today. Luke Wroblewski, web developer and co-founder of Bagcheck (which was recently acquired by Twitter), has a great post over at Smashing Magazine detailing various [...]

Audit Your Site’s Content with ‘Page Trawler’

Need a 50,000-foot overview of your website? Page Trawler is a new web service that will crawl your site and give you a bird’s eye view of your content. While the service is currently limited to crawling the first fifty pages of your site and offering up a .cvs summary of those pages, the developers [...]

Visual Design

Take Responsive Design Beyond the (Fluid) Grid

We’ve given you a look at some best practices for responsive design, but beyond the nuts and bolts of @media queries and flexible grids, there is something more subtle, and more important, at work behind the moniker responsive design.
Good design has always been about not just putting content first, but making it easy to read [...]

JavaScript

Tips, Tricks and Best Practices for Responsive Design

Unless you’ve been too busy wake boarding the Alps to notice, there’s a movement afoot amongst web designers — Responsive Design. Ethan Marcotte coined the term responsive design to describe the process of using liquid layouts and media queries to scale websites so that they fit any screen size. If you’ve never heard of responsive [...]