This year, the team at Carsonified combined their three main conferences into one, massive, week-long event with several different tracks full of insightful sessions. Having attended Future...
Icons have always been a web design staple, but mobile interfaces have changed how we think about them - icons are no longer decorations; theyre powerful cues that tie interfaces together. Unfortunat...
Whether you are a hater of the technique or not, Responsive Design is one of the most important things happening on the web right now. I am finally getting a chance to work on a project where we are ...
For some time now, weve been kicking around the idea of attending conferences that talk more about big ideas and less about the nuts and bolts of designing for the web. Gravity Free, a two-day multid...
The 9th floor of the Spertus Institute was filled with circular tables draped in white tablecloths. In the middle of each table sat a sign with names like James Victore, Alex Lieu, and Brian Collins;...
Today’s program is brought to you by: .example { pointer-events: none; } What the property does: The pointer-events property allows you to specifiy how the mouse interacts with th...
For me, SXSW in recent years has been a mixed bag of emotions and takeaways. Having attended the conference seven times since 2005, I’ve watched the event morph from a self-described “Spr...
I was excited to attend my 5th IA Summit after missing last year’s event in Denver. I’ve made a lot of good friends via the Summit, and I don’t get to see them often enough. The Sum...
This was my first expedition to SXSW, and I was thrilled with the experience. For me, the biggest take-away from the conference was connections. It was a chance to evaluate how we connect to others, ...
Attending the IA Summit was a great opportunity to take a break from my normal routine, connect with other professionals in the field, and to hear from both big names and new faces about the challeng...
SXSW was a great chance to step away from my day to day workflow to see what the rest of the interactive world is passionate about. My favorite talks were those that challenged me to look beyond &ldq...
This year’s SXSW was the first for Dan and Blair, and the umpteenth for Jason and I. Everyone had a good time, met interesting people, and enjoyed (too much) great food. Over the next week or s...
This year’s SXSW was the first for Dan and Blair, and the umpteenth for Jason and me. Everyone had a good time, met interesting people, and enjoyed (too much) great food. Over the next week or ...
Just last week we launched a new web site after a four-year run with the previous version. Brian Williams, CEO and co-founder of Viget, wrote about it on our new Flourish blog (formerly known as the ...
When bringing a large group together for a meeting, such as an initial kick-off, its crucial to make the most of that time. In order to accomplish that, it helps to be prepared for anything. Carrying...
"The typographers one essential task is to interpret and communicate the text" (20). I recently had the pleasure of reading The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, a book whic...
I recently visited a friend who was having some rooms painted. The walls of the living room looked like a patchwork quilt with daubs of various paint colors all over the wall. "I cant make up my ...
This issue has been popping up all over the place lately. When hovering over elements with certain css3 transform properties set on the hover state, Chrome and Safari sporadically flash. Unless youre...
I’ve had a couple of designs recently where I have been able to play around with background-clip: text in combination with text-shadow and gradients, and I wanted to share my experience. Before...
For the last year or so, LESS has gained a lot of traction in the front-end development community, particularly among designers. LESS extends CSS with dynamic functionality and organizational feature...
For the past two years we’ve hosted an event series we call Design Share at our Falls Church location. It’s proven to do everything and more that we set out to do. Namely: Connect with th...
Starting at Viget a little over a month ago inspired me to take stock of the best practices that I’d developed over the years. From whole workflows to the smallest code snippet, I decided it wa...
It’s an exciting time for CSS. On top of the advances being made both in what to write (CSS3) and what to write with (SASS+Compass, Less), CSS is enjoying a spate of serious discussion over how...
As of late, Ive noticed there are quite a few websites popping up that are designed in a minimalist aesthetic. I believe designing in this style requires more attention to typography and grid systems...
A few weeks ago I posted a tweet to designers saying, "If youre not asking questions about the UX that gets handed to you, youre not doing your job." Responses varied from general agreement t...
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