Retina Display Icon Set

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Dominic with 230 Comments

The Retina Display set of useful icons from TWG. Free under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.. get em while they’re hot.

Making a world of difference with 0.05em

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Vivian with 1 Comment

Typographic sensibility can make or break a design, both in print pieces and online. In web design, attention to typography is especially important since the majority of online content is written information. It is often said that the strength of a web designer can be judged through their ability to create an engaging UI with [...]

How I learned to stop worrying about “the fold”…

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Vivian with 4 Comments

Having started out my design education and career in a more print-focused direction, one of the major shocks of web design to me was the notion of “the fold”. The fold is an outdated term referring to a literally folded newspaper; in theory, all of the headlines and important content on the front page would [...]