After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it’s better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.
Non-profit websites typically get a bad wrap when talking about great web design. The fact of the matter is that many non-profit organizations out there are getting it right by following a simple plan of attack. Recently, I was approached to do a website for a non-profit organization. This sparked my thought process, and I [...]
Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she’s done album covers, books, the Citibank logo …) and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun. Look for gorgeous designs and images from her legendary career.
At the 2009 Front-End Design Conference, Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks fame entertains the audience and discusses the many benefits of using jQuery with CSS development, demonstrating how jQuery resolves many typical CSS issues, and even helps extend CSS in ways that CSS alone probably never will. Using jQuery to Pick Up Where CSS Leaves Off [...]
Jeff Veen designs and makes beautiful things. When he has a project in mind he doesn’t just copy someone else’s idea, instead he looks for elegant solutions and intentionally takes what he needs. “The key here is to be intentional with what we steal, to look at what the principles are behind the things that [...]
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