Beyond Paper

Inspiration and examples for designers from the company making the internet work for YOU!

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  1. "Retailers, look at your sites! There’s more to usability than speed. Some of the biggest offenders: o flashturbation o bad organization o six-click ordering o lousy site search o making people register to place an order (the single worst practice on the internet in my opinion) and other annoying and widespread practices make a lot of online shopping experiences easy to hate."
    —Why Are Retailers Still Confused About Shoppers Who Leave Their Sites?
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  2. Fashion label Madewell uses Flash and video smartly

    A unique way of displaying products!

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  3. 3 Resources for Web Designers

    • Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers is a roundup post from Six Revisions. It offers pointers - with excerpts - to 23 different cheat sheets covering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
    • Skout is an old-fashioned portal site. It offers hundreds of categorized links: fonts, color tools, icons, stock photos, tutorials, tools, JavaScript libraries…
    • Konigi is directed at user experience designers, with showcases of excellent design and interfaces as well as useful graph paper for manual wireframe sketching.

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  4. Textures and Patterns Design Showcase

    Very cool article featuring examples of backgrounds and, my favorite, a background pattern generator.

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  5. Using Weather Data to Change Your Website’s Appearance through PHP and CSS
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  6. Book Review: Web Form Design
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  7. 37signals Stands Up For Modern Browsers

    Interesting that popular service provider 37signals (Basecamp, Campfire, Highrise, and Backpack among others) will no longer program its applications to support IE 6.

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  8. What are Widgets?

    The term “widget” can refer to any icon or graphical interface element that is manipulated by the computer or internet user to perform a desired function online or on their computer. For example, the icons located on a personal computer’s desktop are considered widgets. By clicking or manipulating the widget in some way with the mouse or keyboard, the user is able to interact with the computer or website, essentially “telling” it to perform desired functions.

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  9. CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them - CSS-Tricks
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  10. 12 Examples of Paragraph Typography