Craig Grannell
Craig is a writer and designer, who's been writing about design and technology since the late 1990s. He's a big fan of clarity, innovation and the correct use of apostrophes, and will happily bang on about iOS games until the person he's talking to begs him to stop. He also makes music but too infrequently releases any.
Articles by Craig Grannell
Features: 20 creativity secrets from the world's best designers & illustrators
20 pieces of advice from best of the best on what helps them do their best work, sparks ideas, or keeps them creative.
Features: How to design Apple Watch apps
Designers of the first-generation of Apple Watch apps offer advice for design and testing — even if you haven't got an actual device on your…
Features: Best practice for web fonts: how to use type online for the best results (and how to test it)
How should you use web fonts for the most effective results? And what do you need to do to ensure your site doesn’t collapse under the…
Features: How to choose web fonts
With online services offering a choice of thousands of fonts – plus the option to host your own – how do you decide which typefaces to use?…
Features: Web fonts: what designers need to know in 2015
Digital Arts speaks to type experts and web designers to find out what you need to know about web fonts, so you can make the right choice of…
Features: Experience design: An in-depth guide to what this mix of branding, UX, service design and more really means
Leading experience design studios and designers discuss what it is and how it can let you provide more for your clients.
Features: Design for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: How Apple’s new devices have forced iOS developers to start thinking about adaptive apps
Learn from leading developers how you'll have to change your native and web app designs for Apple's new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
Features: Adaptive design: what is it and why should I be using it?
Adaptive design is this year’s responsive design – the website design buzzword that everyone says you should be using – but as with any…
Features: Designing for the unknown: how to design templates and frameworks
Creatives, designers and UX experts outline the best conceptual and creative practices for making things others can and will adapt.
Features: Are MOOCs the future of professional development and training for creatives?
Traditional forms of creative education and professional development are under fire as affordable fleet-of-foot online alternatives take hold.
Features: Sexism dot com: how do we stop the abuse directed at female web designers?
We investigate the vile misogyny aimed at the likes of Sarah Parmenter, which could also be putting women off joining the web industries.
Features: 6 examples of fantastic UX
While some designers champion psychological trickery as a means to make websites more effective, the best web user experiences can have an…
Features: UX secrets revealed
UX experts reveal to Craig Grannell the best ways to create sites that are successful for both visitors and brands – and what they say might…
Reviews: Dreamweaver CC review
Dreamweaver CC is the next version of Dreamweaver, which is neither criticism nor compliment – more a statement of fact.
Features: Beyond mockups: how leading web designers work in 2013
Craig Grannell explores the best new approaches, techniques and tools for designers as they work in tandem with developers along every step…
Features: How to design responsive websites
Responsive web design finally breaks the internet free from the static shackles of print, but understanding how it works requires a whole new…
Features: Trends report 2013: Interactive & web design
This year websites, apps and other interactive media are becoming both elegantly simple and increasingly complex.
Reviews: Adobe Flash Professional CS6 review
Adobe's new Flash CS6 reinvents itself again with new features aimed at app developers
Reviews: Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 review
Discover how Dreamweaver CS6 can help you design responsive sites that work across desktop, tablet and mobile.
Tutorials: Use CSS3 transitions for form highlights in Dreamweaver CS6
CSS3 transitions can be fiddly to hand-code from scratch, but Dreamweaver CS6 makes it easier.