The concept of design as interpretation has deep implications for designers. Our work acts as a series of bridges between raw data, solutions, and people. When one of these bridges has a green wire crossed with a red wire, the whole system may fail to...

The HTML rendering model is based on boxes. Every element of a web page is a box set on a grid. There are limitations we've come to accept. One of them is the inability to build an overlapping diagonal navigation. Without using image maps...

By nature, design adds an interpretive grid to a body of information. Even the most unintrusive layout communicates subliminally about the designer's view of the contained text. How has it been approached in the past? What is modern design doing to the...

It's no secret that marketing and technology budgets are the first to get thrown overboard when money gets tight. But are the results of a tightening belt destined to be only grim? Absolutely not. We will weather this storm and come out the other side...

At their core the vast majority of photoshop tutorials are teaching one of only a handful of techniques; the rest are essentially variations of the same. What this means is that a short list of well-chosen online Photoshop tutorials will pretty much...

Recently, I've run across several references to André Braz's Experience Design Manifesto. His short manifesto is apparently being welcomed and applauded by the design community in general. I, on the other hand, found the document to be poorly planned..

It's my pleasure to introduce my readers to Stephen Olmstead, owner of Sonata Creative in Phoenix Arizona. Stephen and his wife Celeste have recently launched Sonata Creative as an independent design studio—quite successfully, I might add. Stephen is...

Let's say, for example, you have a client that needs to be able to upload sensitive company files that can only be accessed by certain employees. This is where the MySQL longblob field comes in handy. In this tutorial, I'll show how to get a file from...

The majority of the most exceptional men and women in the historical landscape of philosophy have acknowledged the absolute necessity of a supreme being. Those who did not and were honest with the implications of their conclusions were forced into...

This is the third installment of Simple and Stunning on Mirificam Press. In case you're new to Mirificam Press, Simple and Stunning is an ongoing list acknowledging excellent website designs that combine the simplicity of a great user interface with...