Design

Design is about much more than art. In this interesting case study from Visual Website Optimizer, they highlight an eCommerce store that achieved a 56.43% increase in revenue by removing a mega-dropdown menu and replaced it with a category landing…

Designing in the browser has been talked about by many industry leading designers. Here are some tips on how to to make in-browser design a little bit easier.

I've really been enjoying Help Scout's blog the past few months. In a recent post, they give a bunch of good advice on tips for designing websites that appeal, achieve goals, and make your visitors happy. Be sure to check…

Focusing on graphics alone is the main mistake people make when selecting a theme. To help you out, here’s a better approach.

Dave Rupert, of Shop Talk Show and Paravel fame, shares his ideas on creating deliverables for responsive design. I think it could be rephrased to just creating deliverables. He advocates breaking the website functionality into modules, independent from page structure.…

Here's a very practical post where the author outlines what they learned they need to account for to handle retina devices. Simple, practical, and to the point. Are theme designers out there accounted for high resolution screens yet?

Here's a really inspiring post on Codrops. It talks about solving problems in UI, not just adding features.

Simon Ward, of Pingable, shares 20 design trends he sees in WordPress themes this year. I think his take is mostly accurate, even if I'm not a big fan of some of them. h/t Mike Schinkel.

Here's an awesome WordPress site to check out: Batman News. It's a blog about all things Batman, and it is pretty awesome. I think it's really well designed and put together. It was built by Brady and Brody Vercher, of…