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Color scale generator by Hayk An

Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug

It's a universal truth that there's more than one meaning to just about every word. This is doubly true for industry lingo. If you're just getting started in web design, you need to know what everything really means, if you want to get ahead. So here it is: here's what the Secret Web Design Illuminati doesn't want you to know. Read this article, and you'll be able to dab on the haters with your hip new slang. Isn't that swell? .htaccess A file that sits on your web server which, if ever touched, is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to break your whole site. AJAX The practice of making al...

In order to create the most usable interfaces, content can’t be an afterthought — words alone can define the experience of an app.

Some basic but helpful reminders

In areas most important to a UI, motion design can and should be simple.

Pink has been wielded as a tool of control for decades, writes professor Julie Irish.

A look back at the biggest prototyping tool updates from design teams over the last year.

Colorbox is a color tool to produce color sets.

The preeminent media scholar and author of The Attention Merchants shares insights on how the design industry can better serve users–and humanity.

As we at the Wall Street Journal kick off a new round of hiring¹, I’m reminded of my least favorite practice in design hiring: the…

At least once every day, some designer somewhere in the world will look at something made months or years ago; failing that, some executive will get the bright idea that they can make their mark on a company and the world by changing something that already exists, instead of making something new. One or both of these people might get this sort of itch in the back of their head, accompanied by a sense of dissatisfaction and ill-defined purpose. The itch will get itchier, the dissatisfaction will grow, and the purpose will begin to form until, one day, they blurt out the words: I think we sho...

In this excerpt from Image Performance, Mat Marquis chronicles the pros and cons of `img` and why we needed something better.

Have you ever wanted to resize a video on the fly, scaling it as you would an image? Using intrinsic ratios for video and some padding property magic, you can. Thierry Koblentz shows us how.

If you need an aspect-ratio sized (or any element that can have children), you can do it. Perhaps the cleanest way is a custom-property-sized

Proposal to add an intrinsicsize attribute to media elements - ojanvafai/intrinsicsize-attribute

I’m not sure who said “Never complain, never explain” (Disraeli? Ford? Google’s not helping much), but it sure does apply to me, as I never heed the advice. Today I posted t…

Let’s build. Open source projects, a sandbox environment and tutorials from our developer squad for experiencing the power of Qlik’s Associative Engine and APIs.

Share, present, and document your ideas as you go

Freelance Front-End Web UI/UX Developer - Lebanon

'Wireframing' should be a key part of your WordPress development strategy. This post will look at why wireframes are necessary, and round up some solutions!

Our mission? To create one seamless workflow for designing and developing digital experiences.

Carousels on touch screens are plagued by low discoverability and sequential access, and not all designs implement swipe as a carousel control.

With HTML documents, we might show, hide, or rearrange parts of the page based on the conditions of the viewport. If the browser window is 480 pixels wide, for example, we might shift our navigation from a horizontal one to a vertical, collapsible list. We can do something similar with media queries and SVG documents.

The real job of design is changing organizations and charting a path to the future.

Smashing Book 6 is now shipping, with front-end and UX techniques to tackle the new challenges on the web today. No theory, just things that actually worked in practice.

Web Design Museum exhibits over 900 unique designs from the years 1995 to 2005. Discover forgotten trends in web design.

**Quotes** are used to emphasize excerpts of text. Since users almost never read but scan we need to provide them with some focus anchors to fix their attention to the most important parts of our articles. Furthermore, quotes are always used for testimonials and sometimes for blog comments. They can be styled using graphics, CSS and a little bit of JavaScript. Sometimes, creative dynamic solutions can be applied as well.