June 17, 2013 — Microcopy is the little text that can make or break your user experience. If your microcopy isn’t getting the job done, you’ll lose users — and all the marketing in the world might not get you a second chance. With that in mind, here are five ways to make sure your website’s microcopy doesn’t end up sinking your UX. Read more…

June 14, 2013 — In this article, we’ll travel into the future and explore a world where Google Glass and a few other technologies are as much a part of our daily lives as our smartphones and desktops are now. We’ll be discussing a new paradigm of human-computer interface. The goal of this piece is to start a discussion with forward-thinking user experience designers, and to explore what’s possible when the mainstream starts to interact with computers in 3-D space. Read more…

June 13, 2013 — If Sacha Greif has learned one thing in his years as a designer, it’s that people are lazy. Instead, what if he built an app that lets the user add their Twitter account to a list in a single click? This won’t be a traditional tutorial. Instead, it will be a play-by-play walkthrough of how he coded the app in one hour, including the usual dumb mistakes and wrong turns. Read more…

June 12, 2013 — In this article, Lars Kappert will explore ideas and solutions to build a RWA. Declarative composition for responsive applications is quite powerful and could serve as a solid starting point. He will set up some important concepts and you will build on these to actually develop a RWA, and then explore how scalable and portable this approach is. Read more…

June 11, 2013 — A front-end developer had just the few operations duties lumped into their role, and even then, many people chose to skip those steps. Alex Sexton thinks things are about to shift, and he’d (humbly) like to help guide that shift, because he thinks it’ll be great for the Web. Read more…

June 10, 2013 — In this article, Addy Osmani will discuss how to improve the paint performance of your websites and Web apps. Luckily, a lot of great tools out there can help with that. Be sure to measure paint performance on both desktop and mobile, and if all goes well, your users will end up with snappier, more silky-smooth experiences, regardless of the device they’re using. Read more…

June 3, 2013 — Some people waste bandwidth by sending high-resolution images to all devices. Others send regular-resolution images, looking less crisp on high-resolution displays. But what we really want to do is find the one solution that sends the image with the most appropriate size and resolution based on the browser and device making the request that can also be made accessible. Read more…

June 1, 2013 — This post features free desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd wallpaper! All created by artists across the globe for June 2013. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free. It’s time to freshen up your wallpaper! Read more…

May 29, 2013 — In this article, Daniel Pataki will share some of the tricks he uses personally during and after development to achieve a bug-free product. This should give you a good overview of what you can do over the course of the development cycle. Read more…

May 29, 2013 — Responsive Web design has been around for some years now, but there’s still a whole lot to do. In this article, Stéphanie Walter will look at what is currently possible, what will be possible in the future using what are not yet standardized properties, and what still needs to be improved. This article is not exhaustive, and we won’t go deep into each technique, but you’ll have enough links and knowledge to explore further by yourself. Read more…