Design trends of 2012: The good, the bad, and the ‘die already’

Modal pop-ups! Crazy typography! Larger-than-life images! Here's all the best -- and worst -- from web & mobile design in 2012.

Skeuomorphic design (or, one reason we can be thankful Scott Forstall is gone)

I'm guessing most of us didn't have a clue what that was yesterday, but most of us have encountered it and wondered about it in Apple products.

Here’s a sneak peek at Adobe’s all-in bid on responsive design

Reflow is Adobe's Creative Suite-level tool for responsive design. It lets developer/designers pull in images and motion graphics, create HTML divs and CSS styling on the fly, and then quickly adjust sizes and elements for different screen sizes.

Android’s sexiest apps take center stage at Android Niceties

The Niceties blog stands as proof that regardless of rhetoric to the contrary, gorgeous, design-competitive Android apps do exist, and they're as breathtaking, sophisticated, and elegant as their Windows Phone and iOS cousins.

Your mobile design is pretty, but is it touch friendly? Plunk lets you find out

It's clear now that design is a big part of the mobile experience, but it's still difficult for developers to balance touch functionality with an attractive interface. Plunk fixes that.

Swrve talks A/B testing, design by committee, and mobile app ROI at MobileBeat

Swrve, a product for A/B testing for web and mobile apps, pretty much lives at the corner of pretty design and profitable apps.

At MobileBeat 2012, which was all about mobile design, we took a few moments to chat with …

In mobile design, failure is inevitable, says Path’s Dave Morin

Dave Morin, the chief executive of the private mobile social network app Path, was onstage at MobileBeat 2012 this morning with Michael Copeland, the senior editor of Wired. And Morin, true to form, was full of great one-liners.

Morin zinger 

“The ugly cousin” no more: inside Android’s beautiful new design

For too long, Android has been the ugly cousin to Apple’s iOS in terms of design. But with the release of Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich, all that is changing.

For perhaps the first time, “The way things look …