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Mobile design presents challenges and email design is crazy hard. Massimo shows you how to tackle the beast that combines both - mobile email design.

Fact or feelings? Which should you be emphasizing in your image choices? Gabrielle explains why it's heart over head.

A well designed interface needs an equally elegant voice. Jerry talks about the elements that make for great interface copy.

Can you build an accessible slideshow and what are the major challenges? Gian Wild delivers the definitive word on slideshows, carousel or sliders.

Today for Ivaylo, 'SVG' means 'Soppy Valentines Guy'. His Snap.svg tutorial shows you how to animate and randomize SVG – with a touch of romance.

It's tempting to get petulant when designing an unsubscribe flow. In some ways you're designing a break-up. Bruno shows you how to take the high road.

Usernames can be one letter or a hundred. This can present a challenge when we need to display them in our UI. Vinay looks at a curly UI pattern problem.

There's a good argument that the skull and crossbones is one of the most enduring graphic designs of the last 1,000 years. Does it still work?

Good usability testing is subtle combination of the right tests and the participants. Jerry takes you through a master class on getting it right.

Writing software can seem cool and abstracted until you realise the impact your code can have. Therac-25 was a tragic example of how bad code hurts people.

It's hard to imagine how Illustrator could be improved until you see what a good plugin can do. Simone shows us his favorite plugins for Adobe Illustrator

Most of us know that web fonts are a great way serve scalable, flexible icons, but Massimo is here to show you how SVG icons can be even more powerful.

Often inspiration is seen as a rare and mysterious commodity. Mood boards is a great way to put some process into an act that sometimes appears miraculous.

Most people see Google Analytics as a marketing tool, but that's underestimating what it can tell you about your UX. Petras has some magic to show you.

While it's easy to snicker at big site redesign disasters, the most useful thing is to try to figure out where it all went wrong -- and why.

We all understand the value usability testing, but it's wasted if you're asking the wrong questions. Jerry helps you sort out your goals.

Whether it's article links, signups, or sales, most sites live and die on their ability to coerce clicks. Gabrielle breaks down the DNA of a good button

Graphs and charts change minds and influence people. Amit looks at five browser-based chart apps that even non-designers can use.

Dreamweaver's ability to work directly with PSDs is a new approach to bridging the gap between layouts and code. Alex takes it for a test-drive.

Images are part of our brain's native OS, but the written word has accuracy and precision. Helen tries to find the balance point between images and text.

Crafting images that are as well-adapted to each device as our code is may be our next big challenge. It's a area of focus for Photoshop CC 2014 release.

'Don't Make Me Think' was the the UX bible before UX was a thing. Now Steve Krug has rewritten the book for the mobile generation.

Yahoo! estimates we'll take 880 billion digital photos in 2014 -- the challenge is finding the right image. Ada looks at your best search options.

Einstein described insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Arguably bad UX patterns are a type of insanity.

While we can't give up HTML tables, more email is read on mobile devices every day. Massimo walks us through the latest thinking in responsive email.

The rise of a new breed of free web-based presentation tools has freed us from reliance on Powerpoint and Keynote. Gabrielle compares the best 5.

Text and images each has its own strengths, but often work most effectively when combined. Annarita has some easy wins to focus on.

You can learn a lot from data, but it's hard to measure happiness. Georgina looks at how user interviews can help you understand the hearts of your users.

Infinite scroll has become a popular web design patterns, but that doesn't guarantee it's good. Christian weighs the pros and cons.

Stenography is 'old tech' that still makes sense today. Plover is an open source project designed to deliver 240 wpm typing to authors, bloggers and coders.