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Often it's the small, random details in a story that make it feel authentic. Advertising great David Ogilvy understood the value of great storytelling.

The hardest part of finding the perfect image is there are just too many options. We've got three tips to help you save time and narrow down your search.

Design trends have a natural ebbs and flows and it's hard not to get sucked along with the new wave. Workerbee has some smart methods to find your own path.

Designers have always borrowed from other sources, but 'fair use' is a hard idea to pin down. Jeff Koons thought he had an air-tight defence. He didn't.

Now MagicMirror gives Sketch App users access to some of the same features to create a perspective mockup.

Mobile devices present a whole new range of accessibility challenges. Gian looks the successes and failures of WCAG2.

Screen resolutions keep increasing and so do the challenges of front-end development. James George looks at the current state of play.

Getting a 'single view' of all the design elements on a website is often impossible. That's why a web style guide can be super-important for designers.

The world is not flat! Or doesn't have to be. Kelsey gets your imagination bubbling with some design employing beautifully loose watercolor tones.

Prototyping apps is hard. The easier they are to use, the more control you lose. Mateo shows you how to create rich prototypes with Origami without coding.

We all need to share branding assets at some time, but emailing ZIP can be ungainly and inefficient. Brandisty offers an alternative way to manage assets.

People love Sketch App because of its simplicity. But that doesn't mean we can't tweak it to our own workflows.

Ivaylo has returned from silent meditation to deliver 7 more tips on being that Photoshop guru that everyone wishes they could be.

From Casablanca to Game of Thrones, maps have been used to help tell stories. AMCharts Pixel Map Editor lets you create customized SVG maps with ease.

We all know about image formats – or do we? Monty looks at the old standards with fresh eyes and does some testing.

I know what it's like: You know you should be doing more user testing, but there's so much to catch up on. Vinay has a shortcut for you.

Alex Walker explains what he looks for in an article intro and details how to write one for yourself together.

As more learning platforms move online – both government and private – the importance of keeping these systems open to all becomes even more pressing.

While designers seem to like it, Google's new logo has been compared to Comic Sans in some quarters. Why are we seeing such a wide discrepancy in opinion?

In 2015 it's no longer enough for interface elements to instantly switch between two static states. Petras has 7 tips for making your interactions sing!

Designers are hunters, always tracking the perfect assets to tell their story. Adobe Stock brings the hunt into your Creative Cloud app.

Including such famous fonts as Futura and Museo Sans, geometric fonts represent one of the most useful and versatile subcategories of sans-serif typefaces.

Kelsey has compiled a collection of fun typography games sure to test your typographical skills and improve your knowledge. Have some fun and learn.

Often it's the flaws in a technology – the brush strokes, the audio hiss – that we celebrate most. Khoi Vin celebrates the halftone in his latest design.

Fonts have been a convenient place to store our vector icons – but is it the *right* place? Massimo asks if it's time to move to SVG.

We can track clicks and cursors but that doesn't tell us the whole story of what our users are actually interested in. Charles walks us through eyetracking.

A lot of us muddle our way through Photoshop to get a result. Ivaylo has a checklist to get you set up the 'right' way.

Conventional wisdom says that the frustration of masked passwords is worth it to keep us safe from hoods and hustlers. But does it actually help?

Like hand-holds on a climbing wall, paragraphs give us an obvious path to traverse a wall of text - except when we they get lost on a small screen.

Make things easier. Make things faster. That's what Simone is offering with these six online tools. And they're all free!