Christian Holst wrote

Responsive Upscaling: Large-Screen E-Commerce Design

August 25, 2015 — The responsive design revolution is truly upon us (if it hasn’t already happened!), and even though e-commerce websites haven’t picked up responsive design quite as aggressively as in other industries, it’s becoming increasingly popular. So far, most of the responsive design … Read More…

Anna Yeaman wrote

Typographic Patterns In HTML Email Newsletter Design

August 24, 2015 — Last year I read Jan Constantin’s post “Typographic Design Patterns and Current Practices” and straightaway wanted to do something similar with email. At the time I was studying responsive typography on the web, trying to break down the websites I liked in order to … Read More…

Anselm Hannemann wrote

Web Development Reading List #100

August 21, 2015 — What’s happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann is keeping track of everything so you don’t have to. The result is a carefully … Read More…

Anya Pratskevich wrote

What A/B Testing Taught Us About App Store Optimization

August 20, 2015 — 1.5 million apps in Apple’s App Store and another 1.5 million in Google’s Play store. That’s a lot of apps, and for a growing number of mobile users. An average user in the US will download only three new apps per month (at best), according to comScore’s “US Mobile App … Read More…

Vitaly Friedman wrote

From Russia With Love: Behind The Responsive Redesign Of Kremlin.ru

August 19, 2015 — Relaunching a large-scale website is always quite an undertaking,_especially if the task involves a huge political entity with content_accumulated over a dozen years. In this article, we look behind the scenes of the responsive redesign of Kremlin.ru, Russia’s most prominent … Read More…

Ben Gremillion wrote

Laying Out A Flexible Future For Web Design With Flexbox Best Practices

August 17, 2015 — CSS floats and clears define web layout today. Based on principles derived from centuries of print design, they’ve worked well enough — even if, strictly speaking, floats weren’t meant for that purpose. Neither were tables, but that didn’t stop us in the … Read More…

Andy Budd wrote

Web Design Conferences Are Booming: But What's Next?

August 14, 2015 — Every year there are around 100 web conferences in the UK, and there are new ones emerging all the time. With a conference catering for every design and development niche, you are rarely more than an hour away from your nearest event. If you’re interested in JavaScript, then … Read More…

Dean Hume wrote

Understanding Critical CSS

August 13, 2015 — The web is slow, yet there are a few simple strategies to make websites faster. One of them is inlining critical CSS into the <head> of your pages, yet how exactly do you do it if your site contains hundreds of pages, or even worse, hundreds of different templates? You … Read More…

Matthew Ray wrote

How To Deploy WordPress Plugins With GitHub Using Transients

August 11, 2015 — If you’ve worked with WordPress for a while, you may have tried your hand at writing a plugin. Many developers will start creating plugins to enhance a custom theme or to modularize their code. Eventually, though, you may want to distribute your plugin to a wider … Read More…

Trine Falbe wrote

Designing Web Interfaces For Kids

August 10, 2015 — Kids spend a lot of time online, and their cognitive and physical limitations present many challenges to them when they do so. Pair that with poorly designed content and dark patterns, and you have a bad mix. As designers on the web, we have a responsibility to create things … Read More…