Hello, and welcome to the first edition of a monthly roundup of the best articles on the internet. Our aim is to give insight into the trials and tribulations of designing for the modern web.

Here are the best:

Telling your clients story

A client's story is way more impactful than lame marketing copy. Jonathan Longnecker, co-founder of FortySeven Media, stresses the importance of telling your client's story and explains how to do it.

Gamification – nuggets of wisdom or fool’s gold?

Gamification, the technique of applying game mechanics outside of games, had a good 2011. Learn more

The post-Flash era

As the post-Flash era approaches, developers will increasingly use open standards to deploy video on the Web. This article takes a look at the future for flash video.

Is Flash dead?

Designer and developer Aral Balkan welcomes the change of Adobe's mobile strategy but argues that it's too late and that it spells the beginning of the end of Flash on the web. Read more here

How to approach a responsive design

The Boston Globe has launched a snazzy new website, in an attempt to create a more immersive news-reading experience, on a platform that appropriately features long-format journalism and better promotes a subscription-based business model. That's all lovely for readers, but the site also has a modern, adaptive design that will make many web designers swoon (or go green with envy). In this article, the agency behind the site explains their approach to the redesign.

Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good web design

Dieter Rams is one of the most important designers of the 20th century but his famous 10 principles for good design focused on industrial design. Here Lisbon-based designer Nuno Loureiro applies them to web design.

Why scrolling is the new click

UX Movement answers why scrolling is the new click.