#design (1,029 links)
- typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML typeface.neocracy.org
Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough.
Via demwunz.
- Dropcards | Create your own digital download cards dropcards.com
Very glad someone is doing this. Looks like a good service, but quite pricey and doesn't help satisfying instant gratification urge with online sales.
- Narwhal Co. { Original Recycled Tie Accessories } narwhalcompany.com
Accessories made from recycled ties.
Expensive but yum.
Impressed by Ghostly International; how a record label site should work.
- russell davies: draping the city in data and dodging augmented urban spam russelldavies.typepad.com
It's like the way advertising ended up all over the web - it seemed a pain-free option and a way to get things paid for. But if we want to provide people with all this information all over the city do we want to do it the same way?
Transcription of Dan Cederholm's talk at An Event Apart. Some good ideas in here.
- Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com
An experimental web development and design studio.
Search Flickr, capture images via your WebCam or drag-n-drop images from your computer. Click a button and the colors are saved to Illustrator, Photoshop or as an XML file for Processing
Companies should create rich and immersive website experiences, drawing from some of the techniques for game design to build brand affinity and differentiate their sites.
- tinker.it : Home Page tinker.it
A technology and design consultancy that offers technological support to creative minds and projects.
New Suburb site.
- information aesthetics - data visualization & visual design infosthetics.com
form follows data - data visualization & visual communication
- Advanced Beauty advancedbeauty.org
- Features are a one-way street - (37signals) 37signals.com
Once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. They will freak out. Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you’ve married it.
- Cool business card designs | creativebits creativebits.org
- Learning from "bad" UI - (37signals) 37signals.com
The fact that a screen is “cluttered” doesn’t automatically mean it is poorly designed or ill-conceived.
A global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants.
E-commerce rich media gubbins.
- Tiled backgrounds designer bgpatterns.com
- Unit Interactive :: Blog :: Better CSS Font Stacks unitinteractive.com
A Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008.
They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software.
- Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library developer.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG)
The dominance of visually-driven interfaces become especially problematic in the mobile context. Design principles and conventions like WYSIWYG and GUI become brittle and broken on small devices.
Backboard makes it simple to collect feedback from friends, co-workers, classmates, or anyone. It works with documents, images, text, and URLs.
The Usage Lifecycle describes how far a person has progressed in using your web application, helping to identify the hurdles someone needs to overcome to become regular, passionate users.
When I originally checked out Get Satisfaction, I was immediately impressed. However, it wasn't until I needed to get in and use it for myself that I really began to appreciate the depth of thought apparent in the interface.
The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable.
- Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Design is 95% Typography informationarchitects.jp · Archived on
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
Coudal used to generate revenues almost exclusively from client work. Anyone who’s done client work knows the inherent frustrations that come along with that. But instead of merely accepting these frustrations [...], Coudal searched for another path.
- Designers Toolbox: OS Form Elements designerstoolbox.com
- A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die alistapart.com
I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step.
- Color Palette Generator degraeve.com
Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
- Apple's design process - BusinessWeek businessweek.com
Interesting presentation at SXSW from Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, who tried to assess how Apple can ‘get’ design when so many other companies try and fail.
"I’d like to encourage designers to open their mind and consider using some of the other typefaces that are often pre-installed on computers these days." 4 years back and most people still aren't really doing this.
- Equidistant Objects with CSS - CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
- Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one? ~ Authentic Boredom cameronmoll.com
Do you agree with the statement I’ve made on occasion, that those who can code as well as they design will always have an edge over those who do only one? Or do you believe it’s better for designers and coders to specialize in one role?
- adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » Starbucks is not about the coffee adaptivepath.com · Archived on
What they need to do is make the store experience inviting, not so much about pushing product, but about being that Third Place (not home or work) where people can get a respite.