Jason Tselentis explores the DesignWell app—a trivia game for designers—and talks to the creators about game design as a side project.
Mobile, App & Tablet Design
6 Mobile Web Design Tips for Google’s Algorithm Shift
Google’s search algorithm will soon favor mobile-friendly sites for users on mobile devices. Steve Harris offers 6 mobile web design tips for the shift.
Your Online Design Resume: What You Need to Know
The online design resume is one of the most intimidating things new job seekers have to deal as they begin their careers. Creating an online design resume requires different skills and considerations than traditional print resumes. Furthermore, most people in a position to give a new job seeker advice about resumes haven’t competed in the job...
Device Detection vs. Responsive Web Design
We hear so much about responsive web design these days that many of us have forgotten about the other options available to us, namely device detection.
Front End Development Tool: Foundation for Apps
Zurb’s Foundation is one of the two biggest front end development frameworks right now (with Bootstrap being the other big dog). While both of these addressed the developers’ needs as far as presenting responsive creations in the browser, no one was helping out app developers. Surprising as it may be, many apps actually rely...
Kredo: A Retina-Quality Portfolio App
As HOW’s online editor, I’m heavily invested in the latest developments in the design world—and, of course, great portfolio design. So imagine my excitement when I first heard about the new Kredo app, known widely as “the world’s first retina-quality portfolio network.” Designed for the iPad by Format.com co-founders Tyler Rooney and Lukas Dryja,...
A Brief History of Web Design
Patrick McNeil shares his thoughts on a recent article from Froont.com on the history of web design.
How to Woo: An Illustrated, Interactive Mock Dating Guide
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Scrawl Magazine has released the endlessly charming How to Woo, an animated digital handbook that outlines to the do’s and don’ts of dating. Featuring humorous and touching illustrations, the digital handbook provides interactive, amusing anecdotes for both the sentimental and the cynical alike. “We are excited to bring...
Taking Donald Norman’s Design Principles to Web Design, Part 2
In part 2 in this series, Patrick McNeil applies two more of Donald Norman's design principles to web design processes and user experience.
Beyond Media Queries: Fixing the Pixel Problem
When CSS measurements don’t add up in the face of different sized displays and multiple media queries, turn to typography to solve the problem (and save your design). It may come as a surprise to many designers that a pixel—and every other absolute measurement unit upon which we’ve relied when designing for the web—is,...