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Friday
Dec212012

Top free videos of 2012: #1

It's no surprise that Chris Coyier is at the top of our list of the best videos of 2012.  His talks are some of the most popular at our events.  Here, in awesome Coyier-style, Chris walks us through the essential tools that should be in every modern designer's workflow.

1. The tools behind the success of CSS-Tricks and CodePen

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Friday
Dec142012

The tools behind the success of CSS-Tricks and CodePen [Free Video Friday]

More and more is expected from today's web designers. Visual design is just one part of the job. Those designs also need to build interactions. The designs need to work across loads of devices of varying shapes and sizes. They need to be load fast on any internet connection. They need to easy to use as well as accessible. As a designer, you need to be able to communicate and share code across a team. You need to be familiar with lots of differnet technologies. Don't panic! This is all fun stuff. There are loads of amazing tools these days to help things along. In this video from Future of Web Design NYC 2012, Chris Coyier will go through the lineup of all these tools, discuss what does what, and give you a bird's eye view of the entire workflow. Check it out after the jump.

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Thursday
Oct252012

FOWD Brings the Noise to NYC

There is something magical about NYC that pushes creativity to the surface, so it's no surprise that this year's Future of Web Design, NY conference was like a full year of concentrated creativity packed into three days of fun and learning. From Paull Young's opening keynote on the importance of great web design to charity:water, to Wednesday's full-day workshops, NYC was buzzing with web design goodness. 

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Tuesday
Oct092012

Chris Coyier on speeding up your website, life at CodePen, and fighting giant ducks

FOWD WEEK!

Chris Coyier recently left his role at Wufoo to focus on his enormously popular CSS-Tricks and his online coding site CodePen. We caught up with Chris in advance of his keynote at the Future of Web Design conference in New York later this month to talk about what he's up to and ways designers can get better performance out of their sites. 

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Tuesday
May082012

Daily Incite: Maurice Sendak, opt-in typography, and a wicked pissah start-up school

Maurice Sendak's art and writing managed to be whimsical and dangerous at the same time. He was also sure that children are far smarter than we think, and deserve to be challenged.

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