Craig Lockwood

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Written and produced by my wife @amienlockwood and illustrated by @tinocellupica

Hey Doopoll team - I love the interface, will this ever become a native mobile app?

A device lab is a highly functional way to provide handsets, tablets, and other Internet-capable devices to those interested in testing their work across a variety of screens and hardware. Designers, developers, content creators, and others can use a device lab to gain a better understanding of what users experience when visiting your site from these devices. By creating a device lab, you can...

Great workshops can transform a project. They can engage and motivate a team, uncover quality insights from clients and users, and spark great ideas. But bad meetings can frustrate people, drain energy and waste time. If your work involves collaborating with other people — which for most of us it does — you can be the one to design and run great workshops. But where do you start? In this...

COLOUR ACCESSIBILITY Learn how to create designs that are accessible to people with colour-blindness without sacrificing aesthetics. CSS ANIMATIONS Smart and effective tips covering everything you need to start playing with CSS animations in just a couple of hours. THE CRAFT OF WORDS. PART TWO: MICROCOPY The second book examining the craft of words, this time exploring how words can enhance...

Part 2 also available: http://www.fivesimplesteps.com/products/the-craft-of-words-microcopy

Look carefully and you'll notice that many of the most successful designs are built around words. Apple tantalises us with the ability to hold "1,000 songs in your pocket". MailChimp has created a wonderfully engaging brand, heavily focused around language. Words lie at the heart of what we create as designers and an understanding of how they might be used will make you better at your craft....

CSS has the dual benefit of being incredibly powerful but also very easy to learn. However, it is an incredibly forgiving and lazy language which can hide a multitude of sins. Writing good, efficient CSS can be complicated but fortunately Sass can help us out. Sass is a tool that takes a lot of the legwork out of writing good CSS. This pocket guide will provide an overview of how Sass can...

The time has long since past when HTML and a smattering of CSS and JavaScript were all we needed. With the current crop of web applications, frameworks, libraries and preprocessors, version control for code has become essential, particularly to help members of large teams work together on complex projects. In this Pocket Guide, Ryan Taylor will introduce you to Git, a version control system...

People who make websites sometimes say that their clients are unreasonable. People who pay for websites sometimes say that the professionals they hire don't understand business and can't stick to deadlines. A project manager is right in the middle - and a shrewd project manager can clear up misconceptions in both directions while inspiring everyone involved to work together creatively. Veteran...

Combining typefaces is challenging and fun, but it takes practice. Successful combinations are partly a matter of good taste, which can be tough to develop. And finding typefaces that work well together often takes more time than we (or our managers, or our spouses!) think it should. This pocket guide will give you a framework for efficient practice, lead you to founts of knowledge and help...