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  1. Be a Good Designer, Be a Good Client

    There has been a lot of talk about empathy with the end user in UX design...

    Magnus Gyllenswärd
    October 29, 2013
    • Design
    • Playbook
  2. Texture Mixin for Sass

    Although current trends claim that flat, un-skeumorphic design is the only...

    Magnus Gyllenswärd
    October 28, 2013
    • Sass
    • Design
  3. Not Quite Flat Design

    The design industry sure does see it’s changes in the course of a year....

    Corey Haggard
    October 24, 2013
    • Design
  4. A Typographic Refactoring

    On Giant Robots, we’ve switched from using Skolar and Proxima Nova via...

    Edwin Morris
    October 4, 2013
    • Design
    • Typography
  5. My Design Apprentice Experience

    As the middle of September approaches, I am about to finish the last week of...

    Lisa Sy
    September 5, 2013
    • Design
    • Apprenticeship
  6. Getting My IE VM On

    In testing applications visually across browsers, I’ve dealt with lot of...

    Kyle Fiedler
    August 21, 2013
    • Design
    • CSS
  7. Designing for iOS: Blending Modes

    Let’s say that we have an app that makes use of image assets for icons,...

    Gordon Fontenot
    March 30, 2013
    • iOS
    • Design
  8. Design Reading List and Cheatsheets for Developers

    Free resources for developers looking to ramp up on design.

    Kyle Fiedler
    January 2, 2013
    • Design
    • Web
  9. Designing for iOS: Graphics & Performance

    Note: Even though the technology stack in iOS remained largely unchanged, the...

    Reda Lemeden
    November 26, 2012
    • iOS
    • Design
    • Performance
  10. Quick start your Bourbon and Neat

    As a designer, initializing a new project with dependencies, gems and general...

    Magnus Gyllenswärd
    November 21, 2012
    • Open Source
    • Design
    • Bourbon
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