Designing with Motion
Animations in a website or app should be subtle, complex, and natural. The right combination of these can make a UI feel responsive and alive.
Articles
In this category you will find articles about web design, web development and related topics. Here we also feature inspirational collections, opinions and articles about best practices.
Planning Your Web Design with Sketches
by Steven White
Planning a website doesn’t have to be completely digital. Learn how sketching wireframes can help you speed up and innovate your creatives.
Creative Layouts and Interactions in Web Design
Creative design that differ from the usual layouts can be quite difficult to imagine and execute but when done well, they can make some of the most interesting and engaging websites.
Defending Presentational Class Names
Should presentational class names always be avoided or is that too dogmatic? As web development changes, perhaps it’s time to reexamine the issue.
UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design
by Kayla Knight
Some UI guidelines and tips to consider when designing a website to make it cross-device friendly and responsive.
Designing For The Empty States
by Craig Dennis
Understand how to add some delight into an app by designing the empty states and give users a better experience.
Techniques for Creating Motion in Web Design
Create a livelier page by using images and objects that create a sense of motion. Get inspired by great web design examples and learn about some practical techniques.
Tips for a Clean and Minimal Online Store Design
A couple of tips for a clean online store design with some inspirational examples of minimal e-commerce sites.
A Creative Year: Distinctive Web Designs of 2012
by Manoela Ilic
An inspirational collection of the most impressive and distinctive web designs from the year 2012.
Grabbing Attention and Building a Moving Experience with Shape
by Patrick Cox
Some thoughts on how shapes in web design can be used for attention-grabbing purpose and for an interesting or even comforting user experience.
Using Transparency in Web Design: Dos and Don’ts
Experimenting with transparencies is a great way to expand your design repertoire. Like many other effects, use this technique sparingly and test the design in multiple environments to ensure that it works and looks as you intended.
Three Script Updates
by Manoela Ilic
The animated responsive grid, the direction-aware hover effect and the swatchbook have all been updated and added to GitHub.
Learning Principles for Improving Your CSS
This article will cover some basic principles and tips on how to learn and become better at CSS, based on personal experience.
Mobile Design Typography is Vitally Important … and Challenging
One of the emerging challenges for web designers is creating web typography that works in the mobile environment as well. But it can be difficult, and there are many things to consider. The keys are to focus on readability, contrast, space and responsiveness.
Becoming Device-Agnostic
by Patrick Cox
Responsive Web Design is more than just adjusting a web experience to different screen sizes. Becoming device-agnostic is an important step for creating future-proof websites and here are a couple of thoughts on that.
Elastislide Revised
by Manoela Ilic
Elastislide, the responsive image carousel, has been updated and improved. It can be used vertically or horizontally and a minimun number of visible images can be specified.
Slit Slider Revised
by Manoela Ilic
Slit Slider is a slideshow with a twist: when navigating the slides, the current one will be “cut open” into two slices and moved away, revealing the next or previous slide. The slider can be used in a responsive context and it has been updated and improved.
Slicebox Revised
by Manoela Ilic
Slicebox, the jQuery 3D image slider plugin, has been updated. We’ve done some major improvements and added new features.