Sponge Project Blog

Excellent article from Smashing Magazine - hints and tips from the industry’s leading designers across the globe. A must read for anyone building web-based stuff.

Each designer was asked for one guiding principal in 5 areas that you would put above everything else. Those areas are:

• 1 aspect of design you give the highest priority to.
• 1 most useful CSS-technique you use very often.
• 1 font you use in your projects very often.
• 1 design-related book you highly recommend to read.
• 1 design magazine you read on a daily/weekly basis (online or offline).

Interestingly they all seemed to polarise to some core topics, which is good, but what it also shows is that no one thing is more important than anything else. The key is ensuring it all hangs together with the right amount of focus on each subject.