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2012

January

• Picking the Perfect Palette

• -webkit-transform: kill-the-flash

2011

December

• Background-clip, Text-shadow, & Gradients; Oh My!

• Some Lesser Known Features of LESS

November

• Design Share: Dinner Party Edition

October

• Question Your Best Practices

• CSS Strategy Square-off

• Misinterpreting Minimalism

• Designers: Are You Asking Questions About UX?

• 7 Simple Photoshop Typography Tips You’re Already Doing, Right?

• Mood Boards: Dressing For Different Occasions

September

• Notes From Our Default ExpressionEngine Build

• Post-Implementation, Pre-Launch: A Crucial Checkpoint

• 8 Faces: Viget

• Become a Photoshop Layers Ninja

August

• Dynamic Diagonals

• If You Love Fontspring So Much Why Don’t You Marry It?

• A Design Double Dog Dare: Switch Up How Organized (or Chaotically) You Work

July

• Stop Making Sprites (Compass, Sass, and PNG Sprite Generation)

• JS 201: Run a function when a stylesheet finishes loading

• Designing PUMA

• Photoshop Masking Tips

• @font-face, Realistically

• FEDs: What’s In Your Toolbox?

June

• Styling HTML5 Elements: An Irresponsible Choice…Right Now

• In Defense of the Humble, Often Overlooked Contact Page

• Is Responsive Design a Good Fit For Mobile?

• Behind the Scenes: Mood Boards

• Internet Explorer, Transparent PNGs, and jQuery Animation: The Black Background Issue Solved

• A Quick Pair of Random JavaScript Tips

April

• 39 Ridiculous Things To Do With CSS3 Box Shadows

• Wireframes – Worth Their Weight In Gold

March

• Seven Typography Shortcuts for Photoshop

• My New Best Friend: CSS Generated Content

• Dummy Text Panel for Photoshop

February

• Grouping Layers Magic with Photoshop Actions

• Behind the Scenes: Mosaic Security

• Critiquing Design With Designers

• Handing Off PSDs That Won’t Make Your Co-Workers Hate You

• AIGA Studio Open House

January

• jQuery or Native Method? (Everyday Techniques No. 3)

• Designing Vigegram: A Handmade Project

• ExpressionEngine on Multiple Machines

• Building an ExpressionEngine Mini Calendar Scroller

• Adding Delight to Your Design with CSS3 and Webkit Keyframe Animation

• Viget in Vancouver (Sort Of)

2010

December

• Timesaver: Launching Sites with Alfred

• Design Challenge: The .edu Homepage

• How to Get a Job at an Awesome Design Company

• A Few jQuery Plugin Patterns

• …And Now a Brief Message About HTML Emails

November

• Refresh DC November 2010 Recap: Designing for One Billion People

• jQuery Niceties - Dismissing Lightboxes

• Custom File Inputs with a Bit of jQuery

• SimpleVideo - a jQuery Plugin for Simple HTML5 Video Control

October

• Docs That Work (Everyday Techniques No. 2)

• Extending Paul Irish’s comprehensive DOM-ready execution

• Simple jQuery Refactoring

• Linked Smart Objects in Photoshop

September

• Knocking It Out

August

• Behind the Scenes: Lafayette College

• Clean Up Your Photoshop Swatches and Styles

• Photoshop Scripts: Hidden Magic

• Boss Your Segments Around: Freebie, an ExpressionEngine Addon

• Consumption: How Inspiration Killed, Then Ate, Creativity

• jQuery Image Scroller Plugin

July

• Talkin’ Pen Tablet Talk

• Sass: A Designer’s Perspective

• Design Share 3 Recap

• Taking Traditional Design Concepts & Print Design Aesthetics to the Web: Advantages & Disadvantages

• Recapping the W3C’s “HTML5 differences from HTML4” document

June

• A Little Debugging Magic with HTML’s Base Tag

• Design For Efficiency: Photoshop Techniques & Templates

• The Juices and The Flows Have Been Diminished

• Is this form field taken? A jQuery placeholder-enabling plugin

• Academically Speaking: An Interview with Brian Slawson, Design Professor

• Max Out Your Hit Areas (Everyday Techniques No. 1)

• Ping-Ponging the Design Share 3 Invite

May

• YouTube Chromeless Video Player – jQuery Plugin

• Put Your Portfolio Online

• Behind the Scenes: DwellAgent

April

• Inspiration From Pretty Moving Pictures: Catch Me If You Can

• Terminal Aliases for Git: Two Simple Steps

March

• jQuery Presentation Plugin: Say NO to Keynote!

February

• The Secret Ingredient for Innovation

• Going Gray

• A Better jQuery In-Field Label Plugin

• A Whole New Wooooorld: Structure + ExpressionEngine

• Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Designers

January

• VigePops : Making Them Look As Good As They Taste

2009

December

• An Unedited Passion for Creativity

• Practical Uses of CSS3

• Conquering Shopify Design

• 10 T-Shirts You Want To Buy a Designer

• Genius Ways To Use Photoshop Smart Objects

• The Winter Scrooge: A Design Reading List

October

• You Should Know: Amy Martin

• Book Review: Caffeine For The Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain

• Timeline Views of the News

September

• Insanely Awesome ExpressionEngine Tools You Can’t Live Without