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Improving Typography for the Screen

February 3, 2012
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Improving Typography for the Screen

Reading is transitioning from print to the screen. For many, the convenience and transportability of devices like the Nook, Kindle, iPad, and even smartphones outweighs the pleasure found in the tangible aspects of a physical book.

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What did you say, Face?

December 26, 2011
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What did you say, Face?

The television series “Lie to Me” depicts a Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) as the leader of a firm hired by third parties to find “the truth.” In the show, Dr. Lightman uses the Facial Action Coding System, microexpressions, and body language to figure out what people are really thinking and, of course, know when they are lying. Through...

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The Evolution of the Dot Com

December 20, 2011
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The Evolution of the Dot Com

Get ready to use the Internet in a whole new era: the era of custom domains. But let’s start at the beginning.

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Subscribers: Extra 15% off on Deals for Web Professionals

December 15, 2011
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Subscribers: Extra 15% off on Deals for Web Professionals

I’m sure you are all familiar with Groupon, the coupon site that offers outstanding deals on nearly everything. But sometimes, I must admit, I do get a little tired of seeing deals for trips to the salon crowding my inbox and wish that their preference system limited the deals that are shown to me a bit more stringently. Well...

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40% off Photoshop Brushes and Vectors for NoD Subscribers

December 1, 2011
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40% off Photoshop Brushes and Vectors for NoD Subscribers

To show our appreciation to our subscribers here at NoD we’ve worked with our friends at GreenBulbGang.com (GBG) to bring you an exclusive offer on their Photoshop brushes, vectors, and backgrounds to inspire you and help you along with your design projects.

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UX and Responsive Web Design

October 26, 2011
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UX and Responsive Web Design

As the market for mobile devices grows, the need to design compatible Web sites has grown too – and quickly. It didn’t take long for Web designers to realize that they needed an efficient way to make their clients’ sites accessible in a slew of different devices. And so was born responsive design.

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The New NoD: A Letter from the Publisher

October 12, 2011
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The New NoD: A Letter from the Publisher

On a hot late summer day I sat down with the staff at NoD to talk about the future of our online design magazine. We’ve been publishing since 2006, and with a wealth of content contributed by an array of writers and editors over the years, it seemed a good time take stock of our strategic direction and our...

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The Creative Cloud is coming to Earth

October 12, 2011
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The Creative Cloud is coming to Earth

Last week during Adobe’s MAX 2011 event in Los Angeles, the software company unveiled its latest innovation: the Creative Cloud. While cloud computing has been around for awhile and is widely used in the creative industry, the new way that Adobe is bringing the cloud down to earth and into your hands may make it...

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A Job Posting for the Visually Oriented

September 29, 2011
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A Job Posting for the Visually Oriented

If you're looking for a non-traditional job, perhaps you should find a non-traditional ad. We liked this striking, visual announcement for a Web design position at Duolingo, a technology company ambitiously translating current Web sites into a variety of languages.

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What’s Cooking in HTML5?

September 26, 2011
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What’s Cooking in HTML5?

Web technology author and Sessions College department head Christopher Schmitt spent a good portion of 2011 writing his latest O'Reilly book, the HTML5 Cookbook, 1st edition. Now that the book is safely out its early ebook edition, we asked Christopher some quick questions about Web development and cooking.

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