With Design Manager, you can convert an.html file into a SharePoint 2013 master page, a .master file. After the conversion, the HTML file and master page are associated, so that when you edit and save the HTML file, the changes are synced to the associated master page.

Theming in SharePoint 2013 makes it easier to drastically change the look of your site and make it your own.

Metro JS is a JavaScript plugin for jQuery developed to easily enable Metro interfaces on the web. This release focuses on Live Tiles, the Application Bar and Theming. It’s early in the development phase, but all features should work on at least IE7+(Win/WinPhone), Firefox, Chrome, Android, Opera, and Safari(OSX/iOS).

It would not occur to most power users that web parts can also be added to a Master page, and while this behavior is not available in the SharePoint UI, it can easily be accomplished using SharePoint Designer

Every file is heavily commented and provides a lot of information about what code is necessary for various SharePoint functionality and content.

Have you ever wondered what are the major font types, sizes, colors, and images for SharePoint 2010? This post will cover some of the major statistics that are related to SharePoint Branding.

It used to be said that it was too hard to make SharePoint beautiful, but the following selection of examples show otherwise.

Farm-wide remains a dream.

Sharepoint Design in 5 Minutes from Kyle Schaeffer on Vimeo.

Here is a simple way to add in the logged in users profile picture right before or after the users name in the SharePoint 2010 ribbon.

Publishing sites use master pages, page layouts, Web Parts, and cascading style sheets (.css files) to enable designers and developers to create branded websites with designs that can rival those of many current and popular websites today. This article focuses on the mechanics of properly planning and creating a design for an external, Internet-facing website with a publishing site.

A visual study of computer GUI in cinema.

Who would enjoy a SharePoint 2010-themed WordPress-site?

You can’t repeat these too often.

Moving help inside the interface has many advantages, and there are plenty of best practices for style and format. But the biggest shift in perspective [...] is to stop differentiating between the interface and the help content.

UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience design misconceptions and explains why they don’t hold true.

As intranet projects benefit from powerful implementation platforms, teams should focus on optimizing the user experience for specific organizational needs, as 4 winning examples show.

Intranet Design – A Business Approach to a Winning Design by Toby Ward.

About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The patterns and examples on this site help you create websites the color blind can use without problems.

Comparison of an approved design prototype on the left and the same page in a test environment with actual content. Notice how the text is much more hard to digest and the available click actions are much less clear. Via The Content Conundrum – Bridging the gap between design and content.

Very comprehensive first part of an article series focussed on stylesheets and what you can do with them in a SharePoint environment.

Update: Here are the other parts:

• SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 2
• SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 3
• SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 4

• Notes on Designing a Good User Interface
• UI Pattern Documentation Review
• 15 Effective Tools for Visual Knowledge Management
• It’s official: boring powerpoint decks are better
• Open Source Web Design
• Laddering: A Research Interview Technique for Uncovering Core Values
• Are user stories an alternative to (smart) use cases?
• On knowledge management measurement
• 8 Ways to Increase User Adoption of ECM and ERM systems
• Social Media ROI: Dell’s $3m on Twitter and Four Better Examples
• Build your own community or go where people already are?
• 8 Things To Know About Selling Document Management to Small Businesses
• How to Avoid Extinction as a Technical Communicator
• Web 2.0 Architectures: What Entrepreneurs and Architects Need to Know
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Online Community Management
• Pico – Personal Information Cockpit
• Social Media in Germany: 5 Years Behind – Still Lots to Learn

If you can handle some academical ranting, this quite long article deals with the vagueness that is inherent in Knowledge Management theory and practices:

• The nonsense of ‘knowledge management’

Finally, these bookmarklets make web browsing much, much easier:

• Bookmarklets for Zapping Annoyances