Review: JustInMind Prototyper - Faster, simpler prototyping!
If you build mobile apps, you almost certainly spend a lot of time building prototypes and wireframes.
And the more interactive you can make them, the easier it is to create the final versions of your apps without confusion on the part of your developers.
Justinmind Prototyper is an incredibly powerful prototyping app that includes all the functionality you could possibly want...
Convince your boss about telecommuting
When I was a kid, I remember driving with my father during the gas crisis of the early 1970s. We drove past lines of cars that went on for about half a mile or more.
We would stop at a local gas station where he knew the owner. The owner of the station closed his business and sold gas by the tank full only to good customers, by appointment only. God forbid you drove far away from home and needed gas elsewhere and had to wait on line for a couple of hours for the maximum half tank stations would sell while customers shot each other over the precious juice. It was just like The Road Warrior only people were more civil in that movie and the gas they killed each other for cost nothing.
It was a bad time but it forced people and society to change.
CSS3 Best Practices for designers
If you’re primarily a designer and have recently started learning CSS, you’ve probably started to incorporate some of the new CSS features that have been added to the language in CSS3.
But if you don’t have a lot of experience with CSS, then you’re probably trying to figure out what is the best way to handle some of the challenges that arise from using multiple vendor prefixes, dealing with older versions of Internet Explorer, and other CSS3-specific dilemmas.
In this article, I’ll try to cover some...
Our favorite tweets of the week
May 21 - May 27, 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.
Note that this is only a very...
Comics of the week #131
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.
These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.
So for a few moments, take a break from your...
Free download: Ultimate Social Icon Set
Today’s freebie is a social icon set which contains all the latest icons needed for you social needs! It includes a total of 75 icons, provided in three sizes: 16×16, 32×32 and 64×64.
The file is free for personal and commercial use. Redistribution is not allowed, so if you’d like to share this one with your friends, kindly direct them to this page so that they can download their own copy from here.
The set was designed by Chris Kirkman, a designer...
FoxyComplete — advanced autocomplete search with images
Today I am going to share a trendy functionality which I have been implementing in my projects for a while now.
I call it “FoxyComplete” and what is does is fetch clickable search results along with images either automatically scraped from the result’s content or a specified file. It’s easy to implement and once done, easy to tweak.
The application of this functionality is purely dependent on the designer and developer preference but its impact on the user experience makes it a top choice to add in modern design...
You’re a terrible client
It’s not just me; I’ve asked around: You will probably be your own very worst client. Ever.
Every trade has a similar story to the point where it’s almost cliché: the carpenter’s house is falling apart, the mechanic’s car is a rattling jalopy, and the barber is a balding chatty guy who’s always forcing loved ones into drawn-out awkward small-talk. It only makes sense then that the web designer’s site would be mired in all sorts of miserable problems.
Working on your own site is incredibly hard! You’ve just worked all day on other people’s websites, now you’re going to do yours, on your own time — for free. Ugh! Add to this the pressure of doing your “best work”; you start thinking of incredible ideas and scope-creeping the...