How to Approach a Responsive Design

Folks at Upstatement experimented with how to solve design and layout problems within a responsive framework.

Heatmap Testing For iOS Apps

Real-Time UI testing for iPhone & iPad apps

What’s wrong with login forms?

Despite being nearly ubiquitous online, username and password login screens are wrought with usability and security issues. Here’s a small sample of how bad things are.

The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love

This article addresses one key aspect of planning UX research: the one-page plan document.

exp:magazine – A new magazine for the community

The first ExpressionEngine magazine ever!

Responsive Design Test Bookmarklet

This quite handy tool lets you view any webpage in multiple screen sizes, simulating the viewport of different devices.

From “Mobile Friendly” to “Mobile First”

Interesting insights from Aaron Gustafson on mobile approach.

UX London 2012

3 days of inspiration, education and skills development for User Experience Designers.

What is a UX Developer and are they really a thing?

Leisa Reichelt, a freelance user experience (UX) consultant based in London, posted a note on Twitter regarding a friend of her who calls himself a UX Developer.

How To Use “Your” and “My” in User Interfaces

Documents, photos, orders – how to list them? Is it better to use My Documents or Your Documents? Are My Orders more understandable than Your Orders?

How to move your online sales away from PayPal

For one reason or another you might be thinking of moving away from PayPal to your own merchant account and payment gateway.

An HTML5 boilerplate addon for CSS browser nitpicks

Gone are the days of CSS hacks for browsers…wait, no they’re not. Those days aren’t gone. There are still little rendering hiccups in both major and minor versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer. The hacks to target those newer browsers are few and far between.

11 tips for freelance success

Econsultancy published an article about how to be a successful freelancer. As Patricio Robles stated,  freelancing isn’t all roses. Most individuals who become freelancers aren’t billing themselves out at thousands of dollars a day, and many fail to earn more than they used to earn (or could earn) as full-time employees. Some, sadly, are unable to find their way and are forced out of freelance-dom.

Do you have any tips and tricks you would like to share with us?

Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, “Make it look good!” That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. — Steve Jobs

10 UX Questions You Should Follow on Quora

With its 350,000 unique visitors in July 2011 (according to Compete), Quora has great potential for  UX newbies to ask questions and follow discussions, and for UX professionals to share their knowledge, experience and advices.

We choose 10 most interesting conversations for you:

HTML5Pattern, A Collection of Input Patterns For The HTML5

HTML5Pattern is a source of regularly used Inputs-Patterns attributes.

Bootstrap, from Twitter

Twitter has released an impressive new HTML and CSS framework called Bootstrap.

The Relevance of The Baseline Grid

Elliot Jay Stocks talk about baseline grids; specifically, what he’ve learned from doing a large-scale print project like 8 Faces.

Fixing MySQL and phpMyAdmin After Upgrading to OS X Lion

I was impressed how Apple managed upgrade process from OS X Leopard to Lion. Everything was smooth and unreal. All settings, personalization, files, everything was there. Everything was there until I tried to access my local installation of phpMyAdmin. Something was broken..

List of Important User Experience Terms Every Client Should Know

If you are novice in web design field or need a website, you’re probably confused with all that design and user related terms. We tried to help you by making a list with crucial phrases related to web design. Here’s the collection of definitions with some extra words from us (where needed).