Design + Creative
By now, you’ve likely made the basic adjustments to working remotely: You’ve got the essential software installed, you’re starting to understand the point of Slack, and you can even meme yourself with Zoom backgrounds.
This summer, Media Temple launched a dramatic change in our web presence. The design certainly looks different than 2018, and there’s a lot that’s working differently under the hood as well.
Chen Hui Jing is a self-taught designer and developer with an inordinate love for CSS.
There’s nothing quite like attending a conference and being inspired by your peers.
It’s been the year of the design system. Companies launch new design systems almost every week, and most executives now understand their value.
Laura Klein has worked in user experience (UX) for more than 20 years, written two books (Build Better Products and UX for Lean Startups, and as the principal of Users Know advises early stage startups and consults with companies that want to improve their research, UX, and product development processes.
We may be entering a typographic revolution. Variable font technology, which enables a single font file to behave like multiple fonts, is a hot topic not just among type nerds.
Smashing Magazine recently compiled a shortlist of 66 podcasts that web designers and developers should be listening to, while UXcellence’s ‘rather comprehensive collection of design podcasts’ includes no less than 101 shows.
One of the most important realizations when working in the digital field is that you can never stop learning.
One of the coolest things about SVG is that, despite all the powerful stuff it can do, it’s still readable code.
SXSW Interactive remains a multimedia experience to behold. But outside of the app demos, interactive activations (Westworld, anyone?), and keynote speakers, there remains one constant: The posters that overwhelm the streets of Austin, the convention center, and nearly every tapped and untapped space on 6th Street.
It’s been an interesting trend the last few years to start seeing companies be very vocal about how much the value design.
CSS is the language that styles websites. It controls the colors, the layout, the fonts… pretty much everything concerned with the look of the site.
Have you ever wondered why you don’t find job advertisements for user experience developers?
I was sitting around in the lobby of a hotel at An Event Apart show with Jeremey Keith one time.
Your photo portfolio, made easy Getting a portfolio right is hard to do. Choosing the best examples of your work is an aesthetic battle of attrition with yourself.