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  1. Lazy Man's Responsive Design

    The Boston Globe recently raised the bar for responsive web design. Please...

    Dan Croak
    September 21, 2011
    • Design
  2. Getting All Your Ducks in a Column

    You don’t hunt ducks but maybe you line them up.

    Kyle Fiedler
    September 7, 2011
    • Sass
    • Bourbon
    • Design
  3. Showing off

    How to get noticed as a designer.

    Kyle Fiedler
    August 30, 2011
    • Design
    • Typography
  4. Font Battle 2011

    A recent straw poll of text editor fonts at thoughtbot found these results....

    Nick Quaranto
    August 15, 2011
    • Design
    • Typography
    • Vim
    • Unix
  5. Paul Graham on Viaweb

    We knew that e-commerce was really about graphic design, not transaction...

    August 12, 2011
    • Playbook
    • Design
    • Web
  6. WIP it ♪♪♫♪ WIP it good

    Our development process calls for a design component up front. Design is...

    Harold Giménez
    August 10, 2011
    • Web
    • Design
    • Testing
  7. Introducing Bourbon Sass Mixins

    Bourbon is a library, and also a Ruby Gem, of sass mixins that are designed...

    Phil LaPier
    July 20, 2011
    • Bourbon
    • Sass
    • Open Source
    • Design
  8. Taming a Supercar

    I recently switched to MacVim for front-end development. Coming from Panic...

    Phil LaPier
    May 20, 2011
    • Design
    • Vim
  9. Designing Menu Icons for Android Devices

    Recently we took on a client project which entailed building an Android app....

    Phil LaPier
    March 30, 2011
    • Design
    • Android
  10. Get Your Type Back in Shape with These Simple Tricks

    Type looking a little flabby? Overweight? Want to give it a kick in the...

    Kyle Fiedler
    March 21, 2011
    • Design
    • Typography
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