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3 Mobile First Frameworks to Watch

Plenty of frameworks support responsive design, but I've been looking for one with a distinctively mobile first point of view.

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Sprites, Semantics & Scalability: A Demo with Playing Cards

How and why to use css sprites, ems, and percentages — demonstrated with a fully-scaleable CSS/HTML card deck using minimal, semantic markup.

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Compelling Storyboards: Learning from Comics

Scott McCloud's book, "Understanding Comics", is an inspiration for building impactful storyboards as part of our software creation process.

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Create Your Own Font Awesome Icons

Font Awesome gives us the ability to use vector icons in web apps with ease. Using Font Custom, we can create our own icon sets like Font Awesome!

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Why I Use Keynote as a Design Tool

Keynote is a powerful, lightweight tool, and I use it for many projects — from storyboards and user scenarios to process flows and visual frameworks.

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Rapid Prototyping with Middleman and Bootstrap

As a designer, I think it's important to be able to prototype in the browser. Using Middleman and Bootstrap allows me to work independently from developers.

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Storyboarding with Inkscape and OmniGraffle

Expedient sketching and document layout using a combination of tools such as Inkscape, OmniGraffle and Rake.

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Getting Around Internet Explorer’s 4,096 CSS Rule Limit

I recently found out that IE can't handle more than 4,095 selectors in a single CSS file. Here's my work-around.

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Using HTML5 Form Validation to Improve User Experience

An introduction to using HTML5 form validation features. Improve the user experience of your web forms and increase user speed and success rates.

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Pros and Cons of Doing Web Design in the Browser

Now that front-end development tools have matured, should we give up Photoshop and start designing web sites in browsers? Well, yes and no.

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You Should Read: The Visual Language of Dashed Lines

A post over at Understanding Graphics explains the vision and cognition research behind our perception and interpretation of dashed lines in visual design.

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Working with Compass Sprites

The problem comes in being able to tweak the positioning after Compass has done its work.

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