Facebook redesign
The long, painful and drawn-out death of skeuomorphic design lurched forward another step this week with a redesign by the…
jQuery 2.0 released
Hot on the heels of jQuery Mobile 1.3 comes jQuery 2.0, a brand new, full release version of the popular…
Formal degree vs. self taught
For many web design professionals, there was no option but to be self taught. Years ago, the academic qualifications simply…
Google forks Webkit
Yesterday, anyone old enough to have been working during the browser wars, felt the icy cold fingers of fear creep…
April Fools’ roundup
It’s April 2nd, and news sites have gone back to reporting the news instead of inventing it. Yesterday’s annual festival…
Apple turn to Flash for security
Late on Friday night, Norwegian blogger Ally Tenor posted a number of screen grabs from Firebug that appeared to show…
Beautiful botanical alphabet
Since the very earliest illuminated manuscripts, dating back to the 5th century AD, we’ve associated flora with enlarged type. Perhaps…
ESPNU taps into college loyalty
Sports branding used to be about differentiating two opposing teams on a field; it used to be about an umpire…
Big brand theory: packaging design
For most brands, recognition is everything. Occasionally you’ll encounter a company that seeks to create a air of exclusivity by…
New York Times redesigns its website
In the web-era, major news sources aren’t restricted to local readership. Whilst a city paper may feature some local news,…
Microsoft abandons Flash whitelist
There’s a concept in web design that is more important than responsive design, more important than mobile-first, more important than…
France considers net neutrality
The web has grown rapidly in the last two decades and its omnipresence makes it easy to forget that just…
Yahoo! redesigns
When Marissa Mayer jumped ship at Google to take over the reigns at the web’s second biggest name in search,…
Superb redesign will save lives
One of the most challenging briefs any designer can take on is to design for a cross-cultural organization that needs…
Instagram’s suicide note?
Not a lot keeps Mark Zuckerberg up at night. When he slips between his — presumably luxury — sheets, rests…