Design Process with a Remote Team
The product team at Treehouse has grown over the past few months and we have a lot of new faces on the team since I joined in April. A growing team means new people with new processes and new ways of...
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Remembering Bill Moggridge 1943-2012
This week the world lost one of its true design pioneers and most sincere human beings. Bill Moggridge was the true embodiment of design and contributed to its advancement more than almost any other...
View ArticleI Don’t Speak Your Language: Frontend vs. Backend
“I Don’t Speak Your Language” is a series of articles designed to give you a quick overview of all of the tech terms in our industry. Knowing these terms will help you in your communications and allow...
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Five Android Interfaces That REALLY Work
It is not unusual for conversations about Android design to turn ugly. While it’s true that the original design of the intrepid operating system were inferior to iOS, and that the old Android Market,...
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What Are Affordances in Web Design?
(Photograph by Flickr user Banzai Hiroaki) Affordances are clues about how an object should be used, typically provided by the object itself or its context. For example, even if you’ve never seen a...
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How to Handle Revision Requests for Web Design Projects
You spend weeks working on a website, agonizing over every detail and producing something that you can’t wait to show your client. You’re sure the client will be just as overjoyed as you are about the...
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Interview: Type Designer Mattox Shuler
I recently interviewd Mattox Shuler, a type designer who runs Fort, his type foundry. Mattox was kind enough to talk to me a bit about his journey to becoming a full time type designer and his new...
View ArticleNew Course: Web Typography
As web features barrel ahead, web typography advances with it. We now have more control over type than ever before. But, as the often-quoted line from Spiderman goes, “With great power, comes great...
View ArticleDesigning for Accessibility
It’s the day after Thanksgiving so we know that all you really want to do is sit and watch a lovely free talk on “Designing for Accessibility” presented by Alastair Campbell and recorded at Generate,...
View ArticleA Brief Introduction to SVG
SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, is an XML markup language for creating two-dimensional images using vectors. Unlike JPEG and PNG, SVG is not raster-based, and doesn’t use pixels. This means SVG...
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Gestalt Principles for Designers – Applying Visual Psychology to Modern Day...
Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app. To learn more about how to create visually digestible interfaces, download the free e-book Web UI Design for the...
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Learn JavaScript and Up Your Photoshop Game
You’re a Photoshop master. You have your preferences perfected, the menus memorized. You’re a Wacom wielding wizard. Or are you? If you use Photoshop and you don’t code, you’re wasting time and effort...
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How to Create a Stunning Site Hero Image in 5 Minutes or Less
Hero images are everywhere these days. You’ve probably seen them front and center in websites for apps, magazines, stores and pretty much every other product category. And with good reason: these large...
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How to Start Designing With Developers
Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at the collaborative wireframing & prototyping app UXPin. For expert advice on building creative yet feasible designs, check out the free 34-page e-book...
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3 Steps to Better UI Wireframes
Creating sketches of a user interface, called wireframes, is often the first step in the design phase of a software or web project. Wireframing your software or website project may seem simple at first...
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Animation and Motion Design at Treehouse: Process and Workflow
Hi, I’m Jake, a Motion Designer here at Treehouse. We use a lot of animation and motion, and some of you have been asking to learn more about it in our Community forums. This post is intended to give...
View ArticleSoft Skills for UX Designers
Question: What is the most important skill needed for a UX Designer to be effective today? High-fidelity prototyping wizardry Strong visual design chops Knack for removing the inessential Fluency in...
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9 of The Best Free UX e-Books
Looking for some expert techniques to give you an edge in UX design? We’ve rounded up a selection of our favorite e-books from the Web that you can download right now for free. 1. The Psychology of...
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7 Handpicked UX Tools for Designers
A master of UX design needs to master many skillsets: graphic design, prototyping, user research, and design collaboration. Luckily, there’s no shortage of tools to help these individual skills. Here...
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How to Design a Useful Wireframe
The backbone of a structured digital project, wireframing is one of the earliest and most important design activities. Wireframes allow the team to answer crucial questions about layouts, navigation,...
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