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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 [...]

Part of the MFA in Interaction Design program, this is a candid and personal discussion of how print design and the technique of “storytelling” have affected the designs of Jason Santa Maria in his professional career as a web designer. SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria from MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo. “Over time [...]

Check out this very interest talk about design where  New York Times columnist David Pogue breaks into song. He takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products that get it right. “I know one guy who spent $4,000 just on Photoshop over the years. Software companies make 35% of their [...]

This is a video from the “From Business to Buttons” Conference where Scott Berkun talks about design failure and its causes. Sometimes it’s problems in our design process or how we carry it out that cause failure. But in many cases, it’s the other stuff, the non-design stuff, the business stuff that causes failure. Scott [...]

This is what I’m currently looking for… Step-by-step documentation of your design process  including: Logo Design (Check out a sample from David Airey’s website – Berthier Logo Design Process) Website Design html/CSS WordPress Joomla! Etc… Print Design Product Packaging Books Brochures Magazines Direct Mail Posters Etc… I’m Open to Other Ideas…