For freelancing designers, the online portfolio is one the best ways to get some work. Every prospect will check it before hiring you for the job, so it must be good. JQuery can be a great tool to improve your portfolio’s usability or functionalities. In the following collection you will find some great jQuery scripts […]

It may sound stupid to say that, but the ability to link is one of the best features of the web. It is then really important to make your links display as convenient for use as possible. In the following collection you’ll find some tips to make your links better looking and more usable. 1. […]

Steve Krug’s book title can be misleading because it will make you think for sure. After reading these 200 pages you’ll be more aware of how to improve the usability of your websites and more sensitive to the way user browse websites. After introducing a set of guiding principles, the book gives you design patterns […]

I am glad to announce the launch of a new webdesign related site: CSS Orgy. At this time, you’ll find there a gallery of inspiring website and a blog dedicated to CSS. There will be more functions and resources to come, so you better subscribe to the RSS feed if you don’t want to miss […]

When confronted to irrational situations, we naturally tend to get lost and lean toward irrational solutions. Debugging Internet Explorer often makes you feel lost, thus pushing you to explore unknown CSS techniques and beyond. I am sharing these techniques with you, but please only use them if you are desperate as they only work once […]

Yes, I have to admit it even though I don’t like them: puppies are cute. This said, some designers find a way to make their work even cuter than some furballs, see it for yourself. Hugging Salt & Pepper, will you ever be cruel enough to separate them? Head chefs, cute as hell, not so […]

With the past years rise of web 2.0, javascript frameworks have developed and made it easy for the average webmaster to make his site more dynamic. One of those frameworks, jQuery, has become extremely popular due to its ease of use and its incredibly light weight. Following are ten jQuery scripts to improve your site’s […]

The web is full of resources, but they’re often hard to reach. This is the reason why I think it’s important to organize them with a coherent structure and share it with you. So just bookmark this page for whenever you’ll need it, it’ll be useful. Please also mention if I missed anything. Organizing Sample […]

Starting in september, Adobe will be launchine a mobile photo sharing site named “Phoshop online”. This is no big news for the graphic design industry, but it might be interesting for people using their mobile phone to take pictures. Basically, the features will be: Upload pictures from anywhere (with internet access of course) Access from […]

Unfortunately, I have to say, Jakob has perhaps the worst site design I have ever seen. It is as if, while he is handing out the Oscars, he is wearing a plaid polyester suit. In truth his site is fine from an information architecture perspective. But from an aesthetics perspective it is awful. And aesthetics […]

It may sound a little pretentious to share this screenshot of a redesign of the new Delicious design, but as a big user of the bookmarking service I really feel like they have not gone all the way. I actually didn’t do much but try to declutter the interface of the homepage and add a […]

Probably improving the usability of your website more than its actual design, paper prototyping is a very important step in internet creation processes. The Deeplinking blog wrote a great post showcasing some of the web’s big sites prototypes, such as Twitter’s sketches that you can see in the image above. When I was in design […]

A nice post on the Official Gmail Blog just proves once again that designing a single functionality for a popular web application isn’t as simple as it looks. The process they went through is intersting, and I must say that I truly hope that the Hotmail team did read it.

After my graphic design school I quickly started to gain interest in webdesign, I also quickly started to get frustrated by the limitations of web typography. The first thing I did was head to flash to be able to use any font I wanted, until I did understand why it wasn’t a good idea to […]

When you are a large multinational company like Google, the slightest changes in your identity will quickly be noticed. A few week ago, the big capital “G” that was used as a favicon on every google site turned into an ugly lower-case “g”. That tiny event gave birth to tons of reactions on blogs or […]