While responsive design is an extremely elegant way to handle coding for multiple device types when executed with HTML and CSS, the prototyping tools available to UX professionals have not delivered testable or demonstrable experiences of the same quality. That changed with the new Axure RP 7. With this feature, a UX designer can create a multi-device prototype in a few hours. As we all get further along in designing for our multi-device world, Axure RP’s adaptive views are a great tool to have in your arsenal.
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An off-canvas menu is a great way to maintain context while giving the user a lot of additional information. In this article, Kyle Peatt will talk about why off-canvas has become so successful as a navigation pattern. Countless methods and patterns are waiting to be discovered by intrepid designers. The potential of this pattern is bound only by our drive to pioneer. It’s time that we explore just how far off canvas we can go!
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There are plenty of beginner tutorials, round-up posts, and code snippets, but few good places to go for more advanced, in-depth content about WordPress. In this section, we’re aiming for quality articles on intermediate-level topics, with an emphasis on developing smarter and faster sites, with the world’s most popular publishing platform. If you’re new to WordPress, we’ve got a series of tutorials lined up that will get you up to speed on techniques we’ll be exploring in future articles.
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In this article, Alex Moss interviews Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg, the co-founders of WordPress. Their contributions to WordPress have enabled people like Alex to make a living from this community-based open-source platform. Thanks Matt and Mike for taking the time to conduct these interviews!
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An easy way of configuring settings once and reusing them is by using some kind of tools such as INIT, which can perfectly coexist with and even be used through a generator. Keep in mind that it is intended for Web apps, so the lack of a build workflow might trouble you if you try to build a whole Web page architecture with it. Have you thought about a good workflow and about which tools provide the most convenience?
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After Marcotte defined the technique, responsive design frameworks began to emerge that incorporated these principles. Many of these frameworks are open-source, free to download and quickly customizable, and in this article, Jen Kramer will focus on the most popular ones: Bootstrap and Foundation. A responsive design framework might be a helpful tool in your arsenal, for quick prototyping, testing or even production code — one that expands your range of products and makes clients happy.
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A type design brief is like a charter path: It asks you questions, and the answers will guide you to where you want to be. The walk won’t be much shorter, but the chances of getting lost will be lower. In this article, Nadine Chahine shares six questions that will shape the typeface through its first moments of creation and serve as guiding principles through the various stages of the design.
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Joshua Mauldin started with style guides with the desire to make it simple to maintain and grow a design. One of the first questions, understandably, was why use Fireworks for a style guide? For him, it was mostly because of symbols and styles. Sure, you could use similar things in Photoshop, but he found Fireworks’ implementation to be smarter. In this article, you will find out why you would want to set up a style guide using Fireworks, and you’ll also get a little starter template that Joshua likes to use.
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Fortunately, learning is not limited to only a small minority of people anymore; it is not even limited to visiting a school or a university. The Internet makes it possible for us to distribute knowledge at a small price, and is full of web design resources to expand everyone’s knowledge on an enormous variety of topics.
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In this series of articles, Gabriele Romanato will cover in depth a practical implementation of session storage by creating a complete e-commerce shopping cart with the sessionStorage object and jQuery. Remember that, in these articles, you won’t find a new technique to replace existing server-side techniques, but rather just a proof of concept of session storage.
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