155 free articles on user experience, web design, and e-commerce – often based on findings from our usability research.

The world of digital design is one of the most exciting, fast-moving and important sectors of the creative industries. In February 2015, we are exploring this world, through profiles of some of the most interesting international practitioners and features reflecting prevalent themes and ongoing digital design discussions.

A Dark Pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills.

An independent archive of typography.

At MailChimp, we love to show our work—partly because it makes us better at what we do. This ebook is a collection of the most popular articles from our UX Newsletter, along with some exclusive content. It embodies our quest to reflect, refine, and grow. We hope it’ll help you do the same.

I like to enter the base font size of my body content. Then I select from the surrounding values for headers and small copy.
There are no rules. Just experiment and have fun. Try using the values for line-height, margins or whatever, and see what works.

The goal of DANISH™ is to promote Danish architecture and design in a broad perspective, and demonstrate all the potentials in these fields.

An initiative to launch 25 projects in 52 weeks

In this lesson, we’ll review the essential traits of a good body text typeface: sturdy shapes, even color, and an active texture.

In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.

History and structure of human computer interaction

Миссия бюро — передача дизайнерских знаний. Рубрика «Советы» — главный русскоязычный источник практических знаний о дизайне. Бюро проводит курсы о дизайне, отношениях с клиентами, навигации, редактуре текста и правовой стороне дизайна. Курсы объединены общей идеологией работоспособного дизайна и проповедуют философию пользы. Мы помогаем дизайнерам расти и открывать собственные студии.

Font design has a high barrier of entry. Professional font design programs are very complex, and/or quite expensive. Glyphr Studio is streamlined and made for font design hobbyists... and it's free!

Мы любим дизайн во всех его проявлениях – начиная с одежды и заканчивая блокнотами, велосипедами и предметами интерьера.

Мы вручную подбираем вещи и магазины для нашего проекта, чтобы разделить с вами любовь ко всему прекрасному и интересному. Мы уверены: дизайн не может быть ограничен категориями. Единственное, на чем мы твердо настаиваем – на том, что это должен быть хороший дизайн.

A curated gallery of Dribbble shots reworked as interactive CodePen pens.

Есть много определений пиксель-арта, но здесь мы будем использовать такое: изображение пиксель-арт, если оно создано целиком руками, и присутствует контроль над цветом и позицией каждого пиксела, который нарисован. Несомненно, в пиксель арте включение или использование кистей или инструментов размытия или машин деградации (degraded machines, не уверен), и других опций ПО, которые «современны», нами не используются (вообще-то put at our disposal значит «в нашем распоряжении», но по логике вроде правильнее так). Он ограничен инструментами такими как «карандаш» и «заливка».

This repo is the home for my research and documentation on Adobe Extendscript.

Mobile UI and Material design animations & interactions. Made in the Yalantis mobile laboratory.

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.