The Laws of Simplicity

0a389 simplicity large The Laws of Simplicity


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Blogging Simplified

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I’ve just finished migrating UsabilityPost to another blogging engine. Before, the blog was powered by the usual suspect: WordPress


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15 jQuery Plugins for Better Web Page Element Layouts

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Giveaway Announcement: 3 Colorburned Readers Win 500 Free Business Cards From UPrinting

Last week our friends at

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100 Useful CSS Tips And Tricks Of All Time

If you are front end coder you must know how important is to make cross browses, valid CSS and xHTML code. And also you must know how much time we are spending in all those hacks and fixes for various browsers. I’ve written about some of them earlier on PNG transparency issues, Yellow fields in [...]

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10 Things Clients Look For In a Design Portfolio

 10 Things Clients Look For In a Design Portfolio


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Free Saint Valentine’s Day Icon Set

 Free Saint Valentine’s Day Icon Set


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Cool Websites and Tools [February 5th]

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to <!–
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Submit Your Web App

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CSS3 Techniques You Should Know

Many of you have probably heard all the buzz around CSS3, but exactly which techniques can we use today? In this article I’ll show you some different CSS3 techniques that work great in some of the leading browsers (i.e. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera ), and how they will degrade well in the non-supported browsers (i.e. Internet Explorer). Using browser specific extensions, many of the proposed CSS3 styles can be used today!

CSS Techniques You Should KNow

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7 Tools You Should Be Using For Better Web Designs

We’ve all come across websites with amazing designs only to be frustrated because it was hard to find things or confusing to use. As a web designer or developer, how do you know if this is happening to your website?

Statistical applications such as Google Analytics

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This Week’s Favourites – February 5th 2010

In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a selection of handy website wireframing templates; an article highlighting some interesting factors that boost the ‘wow factor’ in web designs; an interesting discussion about the risk of being unique; a fabulous vibrant Photoshop illustration tutorial; and a showcase of stationery and print design inspiration.

GeekChix


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Design Review: Free Pixels

Free Pixels

In this review, we’re going to work through a website (FreePixels.com

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35 Photos of Truly Adorable Animals in Snow

 35 Photos of Truly Adorable Animals in Snow


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Everything You Need to Know About Image Compression

 Everything You Need to Know About Image Compression


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Starting and Growing a Design Blog with Design Informer’s Jad Limcaco

Hello everyone! This week I had some time to sit down with Jad Limcaco. Jad is the guy behind

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Ink Drips: 35 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Ever notice how inspiration always hits you when you least expect it to? The other day I had just sat down in front of the television. I was flicking through some of the channels and just happened to see a promo for some show that had some really nice typography with dripping ink. I instantly started thinking about how this could be accomplished and realized that a nice set of Photoshop Brushes would work nicely.

I instantly got to work and the result was a set of 35 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes that can be used to Create Ink Drips in Photoshop. After a bit of experimentation I realized that this set could be used for a variety of purposes aside from just ink drips. In fact, this set works well for water drips or even ice sickles.


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