Optimizing for a Touch UI

Make links easy to touch Traditional websites have text links that are easy for a mouse to hover over and click. But on a touchscreen, the same links seem smaller, and can be difficult to pinpoint with your finger – regardless of how slender it is. ...

Mobile Apps

The history Mobile apps really need no introduction. If you’ve ever used a smartphone, you know what a mobile app is and have probably already used one. What started as micro-versions of desktop apps that allowed you to accomplish routine tasks on t...

Picking the Right Colours

Though there aren't any rules about the colours that should and shouldn't be paired together, there are tools that can help you pick the best colours for the web and provide you with an easy way to match them with their corresponding hex codes (your devel...

Screen Resolutions and the Fold Line

What you need to know How do I organize my content so that it gets maximum exposure on the largest number of devices?   The history “The fold” was established in the early days of newspaper printing, and refers to showing the most import...

SVG – What Is It and Why Use It?

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a file format, like JPEG or PNG, that is supported by all major modern browsers. When dealing with multiple screen sizes and resolutions, the SVG format has advantages over other file formats (like JPEG) because it is ...