Responsive Web Design: 50 Examples and Best Practices

7 unbreakable laws of user interface design Are you a web designer? If yes, then you are also a user interface designer, and in the near future, this role will become even more important for you. While web pages today have simple user interfaces with no more than navigation and contact forms, the rise of new technologies and standards will create a demand for more dynamic and customized experiences.

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Building a shared calendar with Backbone.js and FullCalendar: A step-by-step tutorial In a prior post, I explained how Backbone.js can be used to implement cascading select boxes. However, this was pretty much just a read-only affair, and these were relatively simple HTML elements. How does Backbone fare creating, updating and deleting data via a much more complex UI component? JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Frameworks - Fresh Articles In this post we have collected some articles written by web designers and developers in the last three months. These articles and posts are selected according to the two criteria: 1) they are interesting; 2) they are related to such topics as JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX or CSS preprocessors / frameworks. Here is the result. Hope you’ll enjoy this collection. Basics and Principles 1).