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Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Does Web Minimalism Still Exist?

Recently, while exploring a number of web design trends and discussions, I found myself exploring the intricacies of web minimalism. On researching the topic further, it got me wondering, where is the line drawn between flat design and minimalist design? When is a design considered to be flat or minimalist? And does minimalism as a design them still even exist?

Saturday, 3 May 2014

How To Create WebFont Icons From Scratch

There’s been a lot of discussion in design communities as of late into WebFont Icons. There’s no doubt, that image/raster based icons in web design are fast becoming a relic of the past.
Since the early days of CSS, image based icons in web design have been an industry standard. But that has all changed as screens with higher PPI’s and PAR’s have become increasingly affordable. Having said that, the vast majority of displays used to browse the web at the moment, are still using around 72 – 150 PPI, well below minimum requirements for ‘retina’ support.

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Getting Started With SASS

You’ve probably heard a lot about things like Sass, Grunt, Less or even Gulp and other web deployment related workflows lately. People everywhere are raving over Sass and Grunt as if they’re gods gift to front-end developers.