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Design Mistakes that can Ruin Your Content

Some simple design mistakes will ruin your content, or cause users to abandon your site, or worse, lose trust in the information you provide altogether. It’s often tough to know what exactly has gone wrong. Here are 7 design mistakes to look out for and a few ways to fix them. 1. Sloppy Typography The …

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The Downside of Personas in UX Design

A user persona in UX is a representation of the goals and behavior of a “hypothesized” group of users. Sounds great, but there’s a downside.

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Make Link Underlines Skip Descenders in Javascript

The goal seems simple. Browser-styled underlines look terrible. If we could just skip the descenders. Meet: SmartUnderline and UnderlineJS.

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How to Choose a Web Designer

It’s essential to choose the right web design agency or web designer with the talent, experience, and technical know-how to get the job done right.

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Bootplate

Bootplate is a super fast, mobile-first, Bootstrap v4 theme framework we’ve developed for building fast and responsive WordPress-Powered websites.

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Animated GIFs Making a Resurgence in Web Design

While some may think of it as ideally suited for distributing silly Internet memes, it’s beginning to cross over into professional web designs.

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Fear Not White Space

It’s not uncommon for clients to tell designers, “There is just too much white space.” That is unlikely. Maybe you fear white space.

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Colors Create Reactions

Colors have a very powerful and multi-level impact on us, humans and a powerful tool in Web design – if you know how to use them.

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Living Comps

Some web design agencies really love wireframes, but clients don’t really know what they’re approving. Forget wireframes. Let’s get to the good stuff.

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Lessons on UI Design from the Failures of Windows 8

You can learn about User Interface (UI) design, particularly for web applications, looking at the design failures of desktop and mobile operating systems–chiefly, the resounding failure of Windows 8.

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5 Web Design Myths

Everybody’s a web designer these days. Darn few spend the time it takes to really understand the subtleties of web design and, instead, rely on commonly-held beliefs. Unfortunately, many of these beliefs are just plain wrong. Let’s look at just 5 of our favorite website design myths. A quick Google search for “Web Design Myths” …

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Choosing Web Design Typography

When it comes to selecting the perfect web font for your new web design, the choices can be overwhelming. Let’s look at a few things that really matter when choosing the perfect web design typography: compatibility, load time, and design purpose. Before we get into the three main factors that influence web typography, let’s refresh …

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