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When Apple Speaks, We Listen I’ve been using Macs faithfully since the OS 9 days, not as long as some old timers but plenty long enough to drink the Kool-aid and become fully addicted to all things Apple. I remember when seeing an Apple logo meant that the product was something of a niche, an outlier that only the stubborn individuals of society used in an overt attempt to go against main stream, Windows-loving culture. http://designshack.net/articles/html/ready-or-not-here-comes-hd-web-design/

Ready or Not, Here Comes HD Web Design | Design Shack

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The Art of Color Coordination

Colors affect us in countless ways—mentally and physically, consciously and subconsciously. http://blog.kissmetrics.com/art-of-color-coordination/

5 Former Design Trends That Aren’t Cool Anymore (So Stop Using Them) | Design Shack

http://designshack.net/articles/graphics/5-former-design-trends-that-arent-cool-anymore-so-stop-using-them/ Let’s Make Fun of Design We designers tend to take ourselves far too seriously.
Responsive Design

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Launched in 2009, the site had 11 million visits during one week in December of 2011 . You can safely figure its monthly number is around 40 million by now. That's impressive 40% growth year over year. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-secret-to-pinterests-astounding-success-a-brilliant-sign-up-process-you-should-copy-2012-1#the-big-lessons-15

The Secret To Pinterest's Astounding Success: A Brilliant Sign-Up Process You Should Copy

Password strength verification with jQuery | Webdesigner Depot

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/01/password-strength-verification-with-jquery/ Many sites that require login credentials enforce a security setting often referred to as password complexity requirements. These requirements ensure that user passwords are sufficiently strong and cannot be easily broken.
HTML5 & CSS3

http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/07/label-placement-in-forms.php

Label Placement in Forms :: UXmatters

In using eyetracking to evaluate the usability of search forms for my previous article for UXmatters , “ Evaluating the Usability of Search Forms Using Eyetracking: A Practical Approach ,” we discovered much interesting data. I’ll provide an in-depth analysis of that data here. Please note that our ad-hoc test setup didn’t resemble real-world conditions. Since I had to properly measure saccadic activity and saccades times, I had to eliminate all elements that would force users to visually browse through the pages we used during testing. We based our test setup on Luke Wroblewski’s article “ Web Application Form Design .”
For retailers, shopping is the art of persuasion. Though there are many factors that influence how and what consumers buy. However, a great deal is decided by visual cues, the strongest and most persuasive being color. http://blog.kissmetrics.com/color-psychology/

How do colors affect purchases?

New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms - Smashing Magazine

For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/22/new-approaches-to-designing-login-forms/

Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes - UX Movement

http://uxmovement.com/thinking/why-rounded-corners-are-easier-on-the-eyes/ Anthony Tseng on why rounded-corner rectangles in Web design are attractive, and it’s not just because they’re a current design trend.

Why ‘Ok’ Buttons in Dialog Boxes Work Best on the Right - UX Movement

by anthony on 05/25/11 at 11:30 pm A question designers often wonder when designing dialog boxes is where to place their ‘Ok’ and ‘Cancel’ buttons. The ‘Ok’ button is the primary button that completes the action the user initiated.

31 Extremely Impressive Web Icon Sets for Free | Web Design Habits

Icons are one of the fundamental components of Graphical User Interface (GUI).