Remember about five years ago, when the new hotness in interaction design was to have flashy layers in your website scroll at different speeds, creating a faux-3D effect? The effect was called ...

You might not know what it's called, but you, reader of the Internet, have most likely encountered parallax scrolling — the latest trend in Web design — at some point in the last six months to a year.

Out of all the Web design fads to emerge since the glossy days when Web 2.0 was cool, scrolling (parallax) websites have emerged as a surprisingly powerful and useful trend. This attention-grabbing ...