Configuring and setting up your OS can be a painful process. It doesn't matter whether you bought a new laptop, did a fresh install, or are just starting with Rails or Ubuntu – getting your system up and running for your specific takes time. To make it as simple as possible, just try this easy …

Facebook isn't the first company to think about the home screen experience on Android, but they are certainly the biggest. Some thoughts on what's been done before and what we might expect in the future?

Marie Schweiz, one of the most renowned Android designers is today's guest blogger. She is almost famous for the documentation of her workflow, a resource that is of incredible worth to the community and aspiring Android designers. Here, she shares some very detailed insights with us.

Guest blogger Lucas Rocha discusses the shift from iOS' skeuomorphic approach to flat design, as followed by Android and the new Windows. It's on: A battle between...well, read it yourself.

"Are you still gonna eat that?" Why we should and should not forget, change, innovate, and keep stuff digitally. And a proposal of how to deal with the conservatism and innovativeness of the internet.

If you know how to use your graphics tool, icon design is – contrary to popular belief – not the Magnum Opus, the search for the Philosopher's Stone. Here's how to create some basic, individual icons very fast.

A man. Despair. A website. The last ever. Hope?
"This is perhaps the most killing story ever to have dripped out of someone's fingers" –Fito de Patata

You do great work. You want people to see it so you can do more great work. Here's one way to go about creating a good portfolio.

Put on your fur mittens and grab these beautiful winter wallpapers for your desktop, phone, or tablet.

Why in the world do we still use an outdated metaphor for a process so fundamental as “saving”? We should not grow accustomed to things so much that we become unable to question them. It makes progress and imagination harder to achieve. Here is a proposal, a case for change.