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"The word “design” is increasingly confused with “style”. For example, to most “I like the way it’s designed” means that they like the way that something looks.
- Adobe Design Center - Columns and articles from experts on web design and motion graphics adobe.com · Archived on
Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all.
- Silverback app silverbackapp.com
Lovely parallax effect when resizing browser.
We’re creating a simple bug and issue tracker and blogging about it along the way. We think it’s a great way to get feedback and keep everyone updated on our status.
Users now do basic operations with confidence and perform with skill on sites they use often. But when users try new sites, well-known usability problems still cause failures.
- Dave Woods - HTML, CSS, Web Design » CSS Rounded Corners Revisited dave-woods.co.uk
This tutorial will demonstrate how it can be achieved by using just one circular image and a little CSS knowledge. The HTML is fairly simple and just requires an extra span for each corner of the box.
- Processing 1.0 (BETA) processing.org
An open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.
Eight additional mistakes we've seen as we watch users try to create accounts and sign into the site.
Welcome to the online portfolio of Peter Costello. A London based designer and art director.
Optimize Web pages for 1024x768, but use a liquid layout that stretches well for any resolution, from 800x600 to 1280x1024.
"What I’ve seen in our work is that form factor, though important, is not crucial. In fact, it might be a misleading concern. The thing that’s interesting about designing for mobile isn’t the form of the device. It’s that the device comes with you
If however, you start off by thinking about web pages, site maps, left hand navigations and visual design you will very quickly photoshop yourself into a corner. You will find it difficult to create a web of data.
- creativegeneralist.com creativegeneralist.com
An outpost for curious divergent thinkers who appreciate new ideas from a wide mix of sources. Completely random and updated regularly, inspiration drawn from - and relevant to - the larger creative world.
A social learning site for Photoshop artists providing new tutorials and design articles, as voted and suggested by your fellow users.
- DRAG-ing Your Design Down - How To Style Yourself To Anonymity » SOME RANDOM DUDE somerandomdude.net
We have fallen in love with a particular visual style and we just will not let it go. Everywhere you turn there is a gradient. Drop-shadows are surrounding us. We are pinned down by rounded corners.
- advertising practitioner: rory, usefulness, better russelldavies.typepad.com
I think of all those endless microsites as the MarketingWeb; a large collection of gorgeous, entertaining, imaginative visually dynamic websites, only ever seen in boardrooms and awards ceremonies.
I have put together a matrix of (western) fonts showing which are installed with Mac and Windows operating systems, which are installed with various versions of Microsoft Office, and which are installed with Adobe Creative Suite.
Converts bitmap images to vector images - it's an online auto-tracer.
- UI-patterns.com ui-patterns.com
User Interface Design pattern library.
- Virtual Hosting Blog » Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies virtualhosting.com
A few tips from eye-tracking studies
- Supermarket – Great design, straight from designers. supermarkethq.com
Articles on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success.
"Typography has an important place in the web at the moment. Social interaction, and how to design for it, it a hot design topic [...] But don’t forget that the medium of social interaction is language, and the way language is shaped and looks is typogr
- Dopplr Blog » In rainbows blog.dopplr.com
"We take the MD5 digest of the city’s name, convert it to hex and take the first 6 characters as a CSS RGB value." Smart.
- russell davies: applied green russelldavies.typepad.com
Can we encourage and direct desire in a way that satisfies people's desire to consume (and therefore allows businesses to charge them money for something and keep the wheels of capitalism turning) without creating endless torrents of new stuff.
- 30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of | Know-How smashingmagazine.com
30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood.
- Design Observer: writings about design & culture designobserver.com
I’ve discovered a grim-faced resistance movement amongst dozens of tiny record labels determined to hang onto physical packaging and expressive cover art, no matter what.
- ClickTale Blog » ClickTale Scrolling Research Report V2.0 - Part 1: Visibility and Scroll Reach blog.clicktale.com · Archived on
Visitors appear to be using the location of the scroll bar but not the size of the tracker when scrolling, since the scroll bar location is a relative indicator and the scroll tracker size is an indicator of page height.
- Streamlining HP - Sam Lucente - Design - Blackbird fastcompany.com
"The "attitude," as it came to be known, was built around three core attributes: inspired, genuine, trusted. Innocuous as they seem, they were vivid enough for a group of designers to begin to articulate a common visual language."
- Summary of my Playful IAs argument (Leapfroglog) leapfrog.nl
A lot of traditional IA practice doesn’t make sense anymore. Instead of directly designing an information space, you’re better off designing the rules that underly the generative construction of such spaces.
Life has cords, and cords get tangled. CORDhogs take up the extra slack to adjust your cord to just the right length.
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It all unfolded over a website called OpenAd.net, a Slovenian-based online marketplace where ad and design ideas from about 9,000 creatives worldwide are bought and sold.