Category Archives: design

9 Ways to Improve Customer Communication on Your Website





If you’re like most business owners, getting leads online is the main reason you created a website in the first place. Sure, you may have a s… Continue reading

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Goodbye, Google Bar: Black Strip Turns Into Pop-Up




If you use Gmail, Google Reader, Google+, Google Search, Google Maps — indeed, just about any Google product — you’ve likely… Continue reading

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How to Enable the New YouTube Design Now




Word on the street is that YouTube has a slick new design. It’s a revamped homepage with some pretty tight Google+ social integration an… Continue reading

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3 Mistakes Web Programmers Need to Stop Making





Sometimes as programmers, we forget that 99.9% of the population doesn’t care how a piece of text, a button, an image or a video ends up onsc… Continue reading

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7 Free Tools for Creating Your Own Fonts

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4 Strategies for Working With Designers Without Killing Each Other




Fourteen years ago, in my first job where my title was “Information Architect,” I clashed with a designer. We were working at a large advert… Continue reading

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Google Interface Designs: Welcome to Dullsville





Google Gmail for the iPhone may have had just an hour or two in the sunlight before Google pulled it, but that was more than enough time for pe… Continue reading

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13 Free Halloween Fonts

Halloween is nearly upon us. If you’re anything like the Mashable crew, you’ve already designed your perfect pumpkin, stockpiled mounds of… Continue reading

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7 Essential JavaScript Typography Resources




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BuildMobile: Write for BuildMobile!

BuildMobile is looking for talented authors to join it’s team. We’ve got a large demand for a wide range of topics and we simply can’t keep up! If you think you can write on these any of these topics, then get in touch below. Mobile Application Design Small Screen Website Design Responsive Web Design Objective-C for iOS Java for Android jQuery Mobile Zepto.js Backbone.js jQTouch Appcelerator Titanium PhoneGap Sencha Touch Content Strategy on Mobile Mobile News and Events Send your ideas or what you’d like to write about through to us now! It might be worthwhile having a quick read of the About and Contribute sections of BuildMobile. Once you’re set, please email The Editor where fame and fortune awaits! Continue reading

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