#design (1,029 links)
- About this Blog | Free PeepCode Blog blog.peepcode.com
Before there were blogs we had websites. Beautiful, random websites that felt more like a zine — one page looking nothing like the one before or after it.
- THE MOVEMENT: Method Cards methods.themovement.info
The Movement Method Cards are a collection of strategies gathered to inspire, guide, and elevate the creative process. Use the cards to spark ideas, facilitate conversations, categorize strategies, or for designing your own design processes.
- You Can Use CSS3 Right Now | Design Informer designinformer.com
- CSS3 Examples and Best Practices webdesignerwall.com
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- In the Woods – Vertical Centering With CSS blog.themeforest.net
These font-stacks are created after considering the font-share percentage on both Mac and Windows platforms and then checked in browser for x-height and other issues (like: readability).
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- Life Below 600px | I Am Paddy iampaddy.com
The fold is one of those guidelines that has been thrown about so much that it's now become a 'rule' of web design (or maybe more appropriately a 'ball and chain' of web design) with web designers blindly obeying without question.
- The Beauty of CSS3 Animation | INSIC DESIGNS blog.insicdesigns.com
Starting in 2004 I have been working on design projects which revolve around the collections of objects. The objects are normally collected in large quantities categorized and assembled in a way that transforms their meaning. My work is about giving banal and overlooked objects a new significance. The finished piece of work takes various forms such as chandeliers, installations, functional and sculptural objects.
- Nicholas Zambetti – LiveView for iPhone zambetti.com
A specialized remote screen viewing application intended as a tool to help designers create graphics for mobile applications, it has also proven to be useful for creating quick and dirty simulations, demos, and experience prototypes.
The general rule of thumb is – if you don’t actually need to use any scripted languages like PHP or ASP, and you don’t need to access the API to get the user’s information for any reason, you probably don’t actually need an application.
Very nice.
- russell davies: datadecs russelldavies.typepad.com
This is wonderful.
- Setting up Photoshop for web and iPhone dev bjango.com
Most people who have designed web sites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aims to solve those problems once and for all.
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- Timbuk2 Bags timbuk2.com
Gives you any grid you want, anywhere you want: Typographic Grids, Golden Sections, Fibonacci series or Rule of Thirds. Thats not all, Slammer also has Rulers, Crosshairs, Magnifier, Measurements & Screenshots
"Some of the tricks are brand new, some are very, very old, IE5.5. old. They all have in common the "fewer or no images" mantra."
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- Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Browser Size googlecode.blogspot.com
I'm not sure I approve.
- 24 ways: Going Nuts with CSS Transitions 24ways.org
- 24 ways: Working With RGBA Colour 24ways.org
- Technical Debt - 10x Software Development blogs.construx.com
The reason most often cited by technical staff for avoiding debt altogether is the challenge of communicating the existence of technical debt to business staff and the challenge of helping business staff remember the implications of the technical debt that has previously been incurred. Everyone agrees that it's a good idea to incur debt late in a release cycle, but business staff can sometimes resist accounting for the time needed to pay off the debt on the next release cycle. The main issue seems to be that, unlike financial debt, technical debt is much less visible, and so people have an easier time ignoring it.
- Log in or sign up? - Leah Culver's Blog blog.leahculver.com
Sometimes I put my log in information into the register fields.
Me too! I hate that not only do I feel stupid, I have to retype everything again.
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- We are Colorblind » Patterns for the Color Blind wearecolorblind.com
About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues.
Hosted @font-face. For cash, of course.
"[Imaginary Landscape] performed a comparison of an 11-field Contact Us form with a 4-field Contact Us form. They found contact form conversions increased 120% when the number of fields was reduced from 11 to 4 (a 64% decrease)." Not surprising but metrics are useful.
- Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: screens in context anti-mega.com
Whilst the advertising industry has one of the longest histories of trying to understand interaction, it’s a very different set of tools that digitalness brings; ones that designers at the coal face of web and mobile encounter every day. Everything can be considered in context, be timely, reactive, and data-driven. I’m going to try to outline some dimensions to think about, with some incredibly quick, simple, off the cuff dumb ideas (All brands are impersonated. Badly.) that hopefully push the advertising into being more useful or interesting.
- h+ Magazine hplusmagazine.com
Covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing - and will change - human beings in fundamental ways.
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- High Performance Web Sites :: SpriteMe makes spriting easy stevesouders.com
The bigger challenges when creating sprites are finding the background images and knowing how to group them into sprites. Once the sprite image is created, testing the sprite, including changing all the CSS, is time consuming. SpriteMe addresses all of these challenges.
Discover, share, tag and converge images that inspire you and your work
- Make Photoshop Faster makephotoshopfaster.com
Summary: just be consistent, whichever way you go.
- Poolga poolga.com
iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers from a selection of designers and illustrators from around the world.
- Karsten Luecke Type Foundry kltf.de
@font-face tests. "The same typeface looks very differently on different platforms, and even on the same platform if settings differ."
- Typefaces we can all share : Open Font Library openfontlibrary.fontly.org
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- CSS Prism by Ryan Berg cssprism.com
Enter the URL of any CSS file to view and modify its color spectrum
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