Tanya Combrinck
Tanya is a writer covering art, design, and visual effects. She has 16 years of experience as a magazine journalist and has written for numerous publications including ImagineFX, 3D World, 3D Artist, Computer Arts, net magazine, and Creative Bloq. For Creative Bloq, she mostly writes about digital art and VFX.
Latest articles by Tanya Combrinck
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Claudio Guglieri to speak at Generate New York
By Tanya Combrinck published
Fantasy Interactive associate creative director Claudio Guglieri is announced as a speaker at Generate New York
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Create interactive prototypes with no code
By Tanya Combrinck published
Marvel app turns sketches, wireframes or PSDs from your Dropbox into live prototypes.
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How Clearleft built Code for America
By Tanya Combrinck published
Clearleft and Code for America explain how they created an accessible, consistent site for the US non-profit.
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What's the best roadmap for product development?
By Tanya Combrinck published
Deploy as early as possible or wait until it's a bit more polished? We ask our experts about their preferred product roadmap.
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How to create a True Detective-style masking effect in CSS
By Tanya Combrinck published
Inspired by the opening titles to the show True Detective, designer Tyler Gaw has demonstrated what can be achieved with CSS masking by creating his own version using images from Flickr Commons.
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How much data could you save by using responsive images?
By Tanya Combrinck published
New tool examines any URL you provide and measures how much data could you could save.
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This documentary about the web needs your support
By Tanya Combrinck published
Matt Griffin and Matt Braun of Bearded are making a film about the multi-device web, and they need your support.
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7 great resources to help make your site more trustworthy
By Tanya Combrinck published
So you want to get users to trust your site? Kick start your big refresh with these essential resources.
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Events site Upcoming.org to return
By Tanya Combrinck published
Andy Baio's popular arts and tech events website was shut down last year, and now he's using Kickstarter to bring it back.
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How do web experts manage cross-platform testing?
By Tanya Combrinck published
If you need to test RWD but you're short on resources, an Open Device Lab could be a livesaver
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Brand new Firefox gets a massive redesign
By Tanya Combrinck published
Firefox 29 is out now, and it has an overhauled UI and a bunch of new features. We find out what's new.
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Dan Cederholm to speak at Generate London
By Tanya Combrinck published
We’re excited to announce that web standards expert Dan Cederholm will be delivering a keynote presentation at our conference, Generate, in London on 26 September.
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Learn how to be your own boss in the new net magazine
By Tanya Combrinck published
Going freelance can be rewarding, but it's far from easy. Smooth the transition with our latest issue, on sale now.
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How to design for the multi-device future
By Tanya Combrinck published
With speakers from Big Spaceship, Adobe and Rokkan, an upcoming SoDA session New York focuses on designing for connected devices.
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Meet Ethan Marcotte and Dave Shea at the Generate New York pre-event
By Tanya Combrinck published
On top of our outstanding speaker line-up and spectacular venue, there's now another reason to attend Generate New York.
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Has web design become too slick?
By Tanya Combrinck published
According to Jason Fried, people prefer messy but cosy sites like Amazon and eBay to slick online experiences. What does our panel of experts think?
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Hakim El Hattab on Squarespace, Slides and Stockholm
By Tanya Combrinck published
The leading developer explains why he's left San Francisco to go home and set up his own business.
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Anne-Gaelle Colom on being a coding lecturer
By Tanya Combrinck published
jQuery Mobile's Documentation Lead tells us about about combining work in academia with her documentation role.
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The design agency that wants to change the world
By Tanya Combrinck published
Agency works exclusively on projects for social good. MD Murray Bunton tells us more.
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Why a flat hierarchy means working like a family
By Tanya Combrinck published
Simple as Milk is one of five shortlisted nominees for the Agency of the Year award in the 2014 net Awards. We spoke to the team about their recent projects and what sets them apart from the rest.
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Dan Croak of thoughtbot on contributing to the open source community
By Tanya Combrinck published
thoughtbot is one of five shortlisted nominees for the Agency of the Year award in the 2014 net Awards. We spoke to CMO Dan Croak about their remarkable dedication to building open source projects.
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Ben Steers of Fiasco Design on keeping it simple
By Tanya Combrinck published
Fiasco Design is one of five shortlisted nominees for New Agency of the Year in the 2014 net Awards. Creative director Ben Steers told us about their recent projects and creative vision.
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Andrew Clarke on designing for the Left
By Tanya Combrinck published
Stuff & Nonsense offers reduced rates for trade unions and other left-wing organisations. We chat to its founder to learn more.
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