In the iOS 8 keyboard screenshot, is the shift key active or no? Unless you are an experienced user you’ll probably have to check what the other state of the shift key looks like before you can answer. There is no such confusion in the case of iOS 6. It is immediately obvious even to inexperienced users. 

The grid isn't primarily a visual design tool, it's a user-experience aid - like lanes on a street. via Pocket

Last week we announced that The New York Times Company and European publishing powerhouse Axel Springer are investing 3 million euro to help us launch Blendle in other countries. via Pocket

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Сегодня нам хотелось бы затронуть такую тему как создание сайта для проведения онлайн-курсов. Онлайн-обучение становится все более и более востребованным – посмотрите хотя бы какой популярностью пользуются курсы, предлагаемые Нетологией! Мы вовсе не планируем открывать Америку, просто хотим поделиться интересной статьей про один из инструментов, которым только начинаем пользоваться в своей ежедневной деятельности компании, готовящей к сдаче тестов на английском языке.

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Almost universally, professional web interface designers (engineers, whatever) have accustomed themselves to styling HTML elementsprescriptively. We conceive of an interface object, then author styles for the object that are inscribed manually in the markup as “hooks.”

The Google Fonts service has been immensely popular with web designers ever since it first launched in May of 2010. And for good reason. There are no accounts to sign up for and no monthly fees like there are with other web font services. Just add a single line of code to your website and you have at your disposal a huge selection of free fonts that display beautifully on screen.

But all of this begs the question: why is Google in the fonts game? What do they have to gain by hosting fonts for millions of websites for free? Is Google in this for the long haul or will Google Fonts eventually end up in the dreaded Google Graveyard?

Take any new interface design or display technology, and chances are that someone somewhere has already compared it to Minority Report. The 2002 dystopian film, with its see-through screens and…

Typografier is a tool that generates a modular & harmonious type system for modern websites.

Design requires free, sometimes chaotic exploration. But design also means organisation and structure. Sketch can be good in both aspects, but moving from exploration to structured layouts with text styles and unified colors is hard. Either you start clean files from scratch, or you use what you have and try to tidy it up. The Style Inventory is meant to help you with that. It gives you an overview of all your used styles and helps you to merge styles of similar layers into one. This repositiory also contains a few other helpful plugins.

Typewolf helps designers choose the perfect font for their next design project. This site is an independent resource that features fonts from all type foundries.

You could build a Photoshop document that contained many different icons, with one Layer Comp set up to display each icon. You could then use that Photoshop document as a Linked Smart Object in other documents and be able to choose a specific icon by selecting the corresponding Layer Comp. Think of it as a single Smart Object that acts as a library of elements.

People always ask what the worst part was. As if it’s possible to quantify in degrees of bad. When you kill someone, nothing compares.

The wide availability of web fonts has enabled sites to become typographical wonderlands, at the cost of increased page size and longer load times. Performance-focused developers already optimize their images and CSS; it makes sense that we should also optimize web fonts.

The good news is that doing is fairly easy: by creating your own custom font or supplying your web font hosting service with a simple variable value, you can load only the glyphs that you need for the text you have on the page, rather than the entire range of characters, numbers and symbols in the font, reducing page load times.

I got fed up with marketing speak and buzzwords often used to create the impression that a display is much better than it actually is, so I wanted to help people decide what to get with the actual numbers at hand, through an easy to use web app. Also, it was kinda fun to make. :-)

In CSS media the difference between width and device-width can be a bit muddled, so lets expound on that a bit. device-width refers to the width of the device itself, in other words, the screen resolution of the device. Lets say your screen's resolution is 1440 x 900. This means the screen is 1440 pixels across, so it has a device-width of 1440px. Most mobile phones have a device-width of 480px or lower, including the popular iPhone 4 (with device-width: 320px), despite it technically having a 640 x 960 resolution. This is due to iPhone 4's retina display, which crams two device pixels into each CSS pixel on the screen. This is true for the Ipad 3 as well; its reported device-width is 768px just like its predecessors, even though its actual screen resolution is 1536px x 2048px. In general width is more versatile when it comes to creating responsive webpages, though device-width is useful when you wish to specifically target mobile devices (and not desktops with a small browser window for example), as rarely do desktops have screen resolutions below a certain number such as 320px x 480px.

The accelerometer embedded in our smart devices is typically used to align the screen depending on the orientation of the device, i.e. when switching between portrait and landscape modes. This capability provides great opportunities to create better user experiences because it offers an additional layout with a simple turn of a device, and without pressing any buttons.

Use Sublime Text to write in your browser. Everything you type in the editor will be instantly updated in the browser (and vice versa).