- Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design: Remove
- Oct 6, 2010
- Giles Colborne explains the “remove” strategy, which is about removing distractions to bring focus to your project, including learning what’s valuable to users, focusing your resources on delivering value, meeting users’ goals, and removing the distractions of tiny speed bumps that add to the load on the user.
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- Simple and Usable: An Interview with Giles Colborne
- Dec 13, 2010
- Karen McGrane interviews Giles Colborne about his book, Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design, where he discusses the four core solutions for simplifying, advice for designers, and finding “simplicty on the other side of complexity.”
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- Six Principles of Good Commerce Design
- Jul 11, 2003
- On the Web, issues of speed, organization, clarity, and consistency drive your solution. Learn how to keep these aspects and the needs of your customers in mind when working to balance design and style on your Web page.
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- Six Responsive Layout Techniques
- Nov 7, 2012
- Opera's Chris Mills, author of Practical CSS3: Develop and Design, provides top tips for optimizing your web layouts for as many different devices and users as possible.
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- Sketching on the Go: Fluid Freehand Sketching with Adobe Illustrator Draw (2016)
- Feb 10, 2016
- Artists are always thinking about their work. If you have the kinds of portable tools suggested by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad, Second Edition, you can jump from inspiration to sketch in an instant, with all the possibilities of your Adobe drawing tools readily at hand.
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- Small Web Sites Can Be Beautiful
- Dec 28, 2001
- A personal website need not be an idle dream. Let author and columnist Ed Tittel explain what you can do and what tools and techniques will let you create and maintain a thriving personal Web world.
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- Snap to It with Flash CS4 Professional
- Oct 7, 2008
- The capability to 'snap' elements into correct position is a handy helper when designing Flash creations. Katherine Ulrich explores the possibilities for giving your items some snap.
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- Social Media Authentication and Authorization Using PHP
- Dec 17, 2012
- Social media authentication—the ability to log in to a site using your Twitter, Facebook, or similar account—has been well embraced by users and websites alike. Rather than forcing users to create new accounts at each site, social media authentication allows them to use their favorite existing account. Furthermore, authentication leads the way to authorization, where a website can make use of the social media site's resources. In this article, Larry Ullman will show you how to integrate this functionality into your website.
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- Some Google in Your Apps: An Introduction to the Google Web API Using .NET and Java
- May 27, 2005
- The Google Web API gives developers the ability to open a pipe between their apps and Google's amazingly comprehensive index of the Web. Although the API doesn't give you access to everything that Google offers via a browser, and it's still in beta, its features give you the power to write some cool and maybe even useful applications. Tim Stevens shows you what's involved.
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- Something's Different: Tips for Making a Painless Migration to ActionScript 3
- Sep 5, 2008
- Got a few problems with ActionScript 3? Author Kris Hadlock has solutions. He even supplies the code you need to put the solutions right to work. He's a full-service author, that Kris Hadlock.
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- Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization
- Mar 7, 2003
- Search engine expert Andrew B. King explains how URL abbreviation is one of the most effective techniques you can use to optimize your HTML, and shows you how to do it with mod_rewrite.
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- Starting Your Own Blog: How to Choose the Right Blogging Tool for You
- Sep 9, 2005
- Blogs, blogs, blogs. Seems like they're everywhere these days. But with so many blogging tools out there it can be tough to pick the one you need to get started. Molly Holzschlag helps you out by helping you pick just the right blogging tool for you.
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- Step-by-Step: How to Create Tables in Dreamweaver CS3
- Jul 13, 2007
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) provide a powerful and flexible approach to creating columnar tables in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.
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- Steve Krug Explains Several True Things about Usability Testing
- May 1, 2014
- In this excerpt from Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd Edition, Steve Krug share three true things about usability tests.
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- Steve Krug on Creating Effective Visual Hierarchies
- Apr 29, 2014
- In this excerpt from Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd Edition, Steve Krug explains that the appearance of the things on the page should accurately portray the relationships between the things on the page.
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- Steve Krug on Things that Make Us Think
- Apr 28, 2014
- Don't make people puzzle over stuff on your website! In this excerpt from Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd Edition, Steve Krug shares some examples of things that make us think, so you'll begin to notice all the things that make you think in the sites and apps you use. And eventually you’ll learn to recognize and avoid them in the things you’re building.
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- Steve Krug on Why Nothing Beats a Good Tagline!™
- Apr 30, 2014
- Taglines are a very efficient way to get your message across, because they’re the one place on the web page where users most expect to find a concise statement of the site's purpose. In this excerpt from Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd Edition, Steve Krug shares some attributes to look for when choosing a tagline.
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- Stunning CSS3: Different Screen Size, Different Design
- Feb 28, 2011
- In this chapter from Stunning CSS3, you'll learn how to use CSS3 media queries to tailor a web page's design to various screen sizes on the fly, making your web pages more dynamic, responsive, and usable.
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- Stunning CSS3: Speech Bubbles
- Feb 21, 2011
- One of the most fun and easy uses of CSS3 is for layering on visual "frosting"—non-essential visual flair and little details that can push your design from adequate to alluring. Zoe Mickley Gillenwater uses some of the most straightforward and well-supported CSS3 properties to create the appearance of three-dimensional speech bubbles that can be used to style blog comments, pull quotes, and more.
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- Stupid User Syndrome: Why We Become Idiots Online (And What Web Designers Can Do About It)
- Jul 18, 2008
- Whether we like to admit it or not, we've all been victims of stupid user syndrome at some point or another. Designing the Moment author Robert Hoekman Jr. outlines the symptoms of this terrible malady as well as what Web designers can do to prevent it.
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