Tips for Designing and Building a Multilingual Website
Offering content in several languages can add many new layers of complexity to web design. Translating articles is only the first hurdle; structuring a multilingual website can be pretty difficult. To...
View ArticleQuiz: Do You Understand SVG?
Think you understand SVG? Find out in our quiz.Using SVG SpritesSVG technology has been around for years, but it has only recently started gaining wide usage. There are lots of interesting ways to use...
View ArticleFinding the Mobile Typography Sweet Spot
Let’s get serious about mobile typography; we all know that mobile is massive, and we can also agree that typography is super important within a design. Typography is a fundamental design element;...
View Article5 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Freelance Web Professional
If you're working as a web professional for an employer, chances are you occasionally daydream about going it alone. Maybe you do some freelance work in your spare time and would love to extend that to...
View ArticleVertical and Horizontal Scrolling with fullPage.js
These days more and more sites are designed based on the single-page approach (known as single-page or one-page sites). In this article, we’ll explore how to create such an experience for a demo site...
View ArticleIntroduction to the CSS Grid Layout
CSS is constantly evolving. Some of the features being talked about now may well become mainstream in the near future, while others will likely fade into obscurity. Either way, understanding which CSS...
View ArticleFaster UI Design with “Symbols” and “Shared Styles” in Sketch
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you’ll use a mobile shopping cart design to practice using two very important features in Sketch. We’ll be paying close attention to: “Symbols” and “Shared...
View ArticleNew Features in Bootstrap 4 Alpha
On 19th of August 2015 Bootstrap 4 alpha was released to the public, exactly four years after their first official announcement of Bootstrap v1 (what a coincidence right?).Woohoo! Twitter Bootstrap, an...
View ArticleA Quick Introduction to 123ContactForm
Welcome to this quick introduction to a web service called 123ContactForm. 123ContactForm, despite its name, allows you to create many different kinds of forms, plus quizzes, and even polls, then embed...
View ArticleTake Your Web Design Skills to the Next Level With Our New Course Bundle
Recently, we offered a free short course to get you up to speed on Semantic HTML. In just seven short videos, Tuts+ instructor Craig Campbell showed you how to lay out your content semantically, making...
View ArticleDesigning for User Habits and Routines
For the last couple of years I’ve been paying close attention to my own habits, looking at my routines to find out what makes me more productive and happier. After deliberately adopting one habit I’d...
View ArticleLearning Material Design Lite: The Grid
Recently we had a look at Google’s new front-end development framework, Material Design Lite (MDL). We discovered that MDL comes with a handful of UI components to build websites using the Material...
View ArticleLearning Material Design Lite: Navigation
Navigation is a requisite UI on any website. Regardless of the scale—single page, or full-blown e-commerce—a website needs navigation to allow users to move through the pages and sections. Following...
View ArticlePerformance Matters: Open Assignment
This is an open assignment to accompany my recent course on optimizing web page performance. Check out the course, watch through the assignment video, download the workfiles, then let us know how you...
View ArticleDesign Tips for Material Design
IntroductionOver the past months, Material Design has grown in a large design movement. Different components of Material Design, such as content cards and improved use of animation, can be found in...
View ArticleBetter Cross-Platform Development: Highlights From the Microsoft Tutorial Series
Recently we've been running a series of sponsored tutorials by Microsoft technical evangelists, designed to help you solve the problem of building things that work well across all platforms. In case...
View ArticleLearning Material Design Lite: Buttons
Buttons form an integral part of any functional website (plus designers love them!) User actions on the web, generally, begin and end with clicking a button. In Google Mail for example, we create a new...
View ArticleThoughts on Designing for Wearables
Smart watches are the current wave of smart wear.A few of my friends have Apple Watches, and I have a Moto 360 (Android Wear). Each has its own specific pros and cons in terms of usability. Android is...
View ArticleLearning Material Design Lite: Text Fields
Next up in our series learning the ins and outs of Material Design Lite (MDL) we’re going to look into the Text Fields component. A text field could be used on anything from a search form, a comment...
View ArticleCombining Pattern Lab with Gulp for Improved Workflow
Do you and your team work with styleguides? Do you have documentation for your modules? If not, don’t panic. In this tutorial I’ll show you how it’s possible to improve the way you work with your team....
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