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A beginner's guide to designing interface animations | Web design | Creative Bloq : "Motion design is a necessary skill for the modern web. With web animation really starting to hit its stride, everyone from UX designers to frontend developers needs an appreciation for what motion can add to their work. Animated interactions are already commonplace in our native apps and operating systems. The web may be behind these platforms in its animation capabilities right now, but we're catching up fast thanks to the constant improvement of browsers' rendering and support of web animation options." To read more on this go to:  http://www.creativebloq.com/web-design/beginners-guide-designing-interface-animations-111517793 'via Blog this'

10 steps to engaging user experience | Design | Creative Bloq : "Irene Pereyra rounds up 10 top tips to help you deliver an amazing interactive user experience. These days, building websites or applications that attract and retain customers has become somewhat of a science. For people who aren't well versed in the digital space, I often compare the work that I do as a UX designer to an architect. Like the architect who builds your home, my UX team builds a comprehensive blueprint, which outlines every single detail of the site's features and functionality. But it's not a one-shot deal. Getting to an intuitive and engaging user interaction requires many steps. Here are my top 10 tips to help you deliver an amazing interactive experience for your users." 'via Blog this'

Taken from  Back up your design decisions with hard data | Web design | Creative Bloq : " Do you need to reassure nervous stakeholders about a site design? Add statistical weight to your decisions with Design Quips. You might well know exactly what you're doing when it comes to web design, but at some point in a build you're likely to run up against a stakeholder who isn't prepared to trust your expertise and instead wants hard data that proves you're on the right path. What do you do? Bluff it out and hope they won't realise? Before you try that tack, take a look at Design Quips, a smart project by ZURB that collects useful data about habits and trends into one big reference resource." 'via Blog this'

By Ahsan Anderson, (anderson.ahsan@gmail.com)  Nuffield Bursary Student . All views are Ahsan Anderson not necessarily the views of the blog editor. I’ve created a few websites in the past, varying from those for business use or those to advertise bands in local areas, but with my line of work they’ve all had the same thing in common, and that’s money. When I’ve created them I have used a variety of tools; web builders for example, and one very key thing to these is that they all cost money for hosting. There are a few hurdles you can’t overcome, for example, there is no escaping the cost you will have to pay to have your domain name bought, but when building your website, sometimes there is no need to have to pay for the tools, as I will explain now. Whether you are willing to pay for the hosting or you wish to host yourself (or use free sites like 000hosting.com) this list will narrow down the choice of good modern builders that you can use. I was looking for...