Worth a thousand words: images that have real impact
I started my career as an illustrator until a motorcycle accident took my career. My smashed hand, arm, and spirit…
Free download: 40 Exclusive Photoshop Patterns
We’re back with another great exclusive freebie for you. This one is a Photoshop pattern file (.PAT) which contains 40…
Atomicdust: explaining design process
A St. Louis design group announced a special gathering at a local design studio for a program entitled, “Educational Night:…
Telling stories with your designs
Websites are incredibly versatile as a medium, to be used to display information and other content, and if well designed…
What’s new for designers, May 2012
The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS…
Free download: Media Black UI Kit (PSD)
Today we have another great freebie for you created exclusively for WDD by Grafpedia. This one is called the Media…
Posting a price list on your web site: does it work or fail?
When I first saw a web site designer who had posted a laundry list of prices on his site, I…
Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web
Smashing Magazine has just released their third Smashing Book, Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web, featuring all-new content for web…
How to speed up your website
Site speed is one of the most important things about creating web content, and web applications. In fact, it has…
A (not so) jilted English professor’s guide to creative web design
Responsive design has some definite buzz of late, and with good reason. It promises to simplify the increasingly complex task…
WP Theme Generator: Create WordPress themes without coding
Creating WordPress themes from scratch is beyond the technical skill of a lot of people, even designers. Without at least…
Is phoneography the future of photography?
We are at a time where it kind of feels like there’s a new update in technology every week. It…
Our favorite tweets of the week
Apr 23 – Apr 29, 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
Free download: SC iPhone UI Kit (PSD)
Friday freebies are back with The SC iPhone UI Kit, a simple and slick Retina ready user interface for iPhone…
Tools and methodologies for better coding
Optimization and organization can mean many things, but what does it mean to you? Doing things faster, better, or more…
Expert website monitoring for free!
Knowing whether your website is working properly is the first step in making sure you nip problems in the bud….
Tutorial: How to design a chatroom iPhone UI
In this tutorial we’re going to be designing an iPhone user interface for a forum and chat based mobile application….
Does blogging get you anywhere?
Obviously you are reading this blog. Why? You learn something that helps you become a better designer is the popular…