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  • Threadless.com Website Breakdown

    In many ways Threadless.com is very similar to unmatchedstyle, they are both galleries one kind or another, the major difference is Threadless is an e-commerce website. Looking through Threadless with some eye on the details reveals that the managers of this site are doing a superb job of guiding users ... More

  • Chatting with Neil Patel of KissMetrics

    I'm a big fan of using CrazyEgg on my website projects, typically early on in the re-design process. It's probably the fastest way to collect highly valuable information on what's working in a website design or showing you what you need to improve. So when I found out the guys ... More

  • Front-End Design Conference Review

    Some of the UMS crew took a road trip (9 hours one way!) down to St. Petersburg for Front-End Conf. a weekend or two ago. We met some wonderful people, talked about the best place to punch a dolphin (if you are so inclined) and heard some great speakers spreading ... More

  • Targeting for Flexibility with Media Queries

    One aspect of designing for the web is about being aware of and adapting to multiple browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions and even bandwidth. And not only do we need to adapt to the physical requirements of the hardware, we also need to think about how our users are going ... More

  • Front-End Design Conference Preview

    Giovanni, Gene and I will be going to the Front-End Design Conference next weekend thanks to organizer, Dan Denney. Dan and his wife have done a great job putting all of this together with a fun website and great content. We're both really excited about a lot of aspects of ... More

  • Designer Chat Session with Christopher Schmitt

    Talking about the upcoming CSS Summit with Christopher Schmitt (@teleject) got me really excited about learning some new CSS techniques and CSS3 uses. So to get you more excited too we have 2 tickets to the CSS Summit to give away to our community. Leave a comment to this post ... More

  • Basecamp Site Review

    I've been wanting to pick apart the basecamphq.com website for some time now. And recently while working on our own sign up process and form designs for some upcoming unmatchedstyle expansions I spent a good deal of time really digging through many of the top web application or sales based ... More

  • LessConf 3010

    Julia Anderson and Giovanni DiFeterici from unmatchedstyle.com made a trip down to Atlanta to check out the LessConf 3010 conference and talked to a couple of attendees while they were there. In the above video Julia interviews John Ashenden @ashenden from Grooveshark and then Kevin Milden @kmilden from newleaders.com and author ... More

  • Designer Chat Session with Aaron Irizzary

    Talking with Aaron Irizzary (@aaroni268) about a recent video post of his which was about "diluting content and un-necessary entitlement" Aaron gave me a really great overview of what he's faced with each time he starts to work on a new post for his website and what gets ... More

  • Sign Up form design - best practices & design review

    This article is based on a talk that I recently gave to our local Refresh Columbia monthly meeting. Most of the ideas i’m going to share here aren’t mine. I read a lot of books about website design & development and three of my favorites that relate to this idea ... More