A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 260

June 03, 2008

Keep your interfaces beautiful with style guides and build up your ideas tool kit.

Writing an Interface Style Guide

by Jina Bolton

Ever designed or developed a beautiful interface only to find your hard work ruined months later by gaudy graphics or invalid markup? With proper documentation you’ll have a better chance at seeing your interface stay beautiful. Jina Bolton guides us through the process of developing an interface style guide.

Saving the Spark: Developing Creative Ideas

by Mark Boulton

Ideas are at the heart of every creative process. However, coming up with them can be hard work. Mark Boulton arms us with tools to meet this challenge.

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Editor’s Choice

originally ran: November 08, 2005

Design Choices Can Cripple a Website

by Nick Usborne

”...just pause for a moment and think of all the design choices you have made over the last year, and the reasons why you made them. And think about the huge impact those choices might have had on the performance of the sites you worked on.”