“Cure for the Common Font” — A Web Designer’s Introduction to Typeface Selection

Stephen Coles joined Frank Chimero, Tiffany Wardle, and Jason Santa Maria for a panel at the SXSW conference to discuss and recommend some basic principles for making wise type choices on the web.

5 Damn Easy Ways To Improve User Experience

It’s no secret that in order to build a successful website or web community you have to design with the users in mind. Of course you can’t forget about optimizing for search engines, but let’s focus on the visitors since they’re the ones who are using your site and interacting with it.

Responsive web design

The popularity of smart phones and tablet devices have created new challenges for web designers. There are new sizes and resolutions to design for. A new technique called responsive design is changing the way websites are built.

The core principle is that a flexible layout is used to make the website responsive to the size of the screen or device. If you view the website in a tradtional way on a computer it fills the screen as any other website does. View it on an iPhone and the layout scales and reformats for the smaller screen. It really is that simple but this ground breaking concept is changing the way designers are approaching web design.

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Foot fetish

Was scanning through my tweets this morning and noticed Hutch had posted a link to Fast Co Design. Their footer design is quite nice.

Web Freebies

Many of you will probably already know these tricks and some of you may think the following links will only fill the internets with more fromage but I see an opportunity to take the ideas here and create some really interesting possibilities. Take them for what you will.
• JavaScript stuff
• CSS stuff

Wishbone

This is a really wonderful example of a great product matched with an equally great website. Check out wishbone design and their very cool pre-bike.