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- A List Apart: Articles: How to Grok Web Standards alistapart.com
For the visual designer, really understanding web standards means you’ll have to change the way you think about design.
- A List Apart: Articles: Whitespace alistapart.com
The space between major elements in a composition is “macro whitespace.” Micro whitespace, is [...] the space between smaller elements: between list items, between a caption and an image, or between words and letters.
- Creating Passionate Users: What comes after usability? headrush.typepad.com
"Thanks for giving me something useable, well-designed, and useful. Now, can you make it as engaging as a game or sport? Can you keep me so immersed that time and all the clutter of daily existence drops away? Where I'm under a spell that's never broken b
This site contains information and design tools. They may not show you exactly what dichromats see, but will help you to understand which colours are easily confused.
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Good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity
- Jonathan Yuen (2006) jonathanyuen.com
UI expert Robert Hoekman Jr shows you how to educate your visitors about the features of contemporary sites and web apps through instructive design.
"This article is meant to offer a solution to my earlier complaints by offering a brief explanation of the process steps—already familiar to information architects and the teams that employ them—which lead to effective scoping and wireframes, along wi
- Microformats Icons -- The brilliant work of Wolfgang Bartelme factorycity.net
Make your own microformat icons and add them to the wiki with Wolfgang's excellent Icon DevKit. Contains both Photoshop and Illustrator vector content.
There was a large amount of interest in last month’s Web Application Form Design article, so I decided to provide some additional details.
- Label Placement in Forms :: UXmatters uxmatters.com
Evaluating label placement in forms with eyetracking.
Broken Windows Theory and Your Web Site says visiting a site with broken links, misleading navigation, or missing images is like visiting a neighborhood where “you get the feeling that no one cares.”
- Natalie Downe » Blog Archive » Inline image quotes notes.natbat.net
A block quote [...] with speech marks at the front and termination of the text but without the nastiness of inline images.
- No Man's Blog: 10 Questions with Jonathan Harris nomansblog.typepad.com
Asi interviews Jonathan Harris, "the artist behind such great recent projects as Yahoo! Time Capsule, We Feel Fine, Loveliness and Phylotaxis".
- Welcome to Area, Inc. :: New York areahome.com
New York-based designer bedding.
- Smashing Magazine | Blog Archive » CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions smashingmagazine.com
Modern solutions a web-developer can use [when] designing his/her next css-based form.
- VERTICAL GARDEN by PATRICK BLANC - MUR VEGETAL - GREEN WALL - LIVING WALL verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com
The biggest barrier in the networked world is convincing groups of people, not just individuals, simply to use (or even try!) your software.
Topics: 1. How designing for the web has changed / 2. How to measure the impact of usability checks / 3. Life at Google - and how Measure Map is playing out / 4. The state of the industry
- Unto This Last untothislast.co.uk
Instead of buying furniture from a warehouse outside of town, we thought you would prefer a visit to a workshop close to the city centre: everything you buy from us is made at the back of our shop, on a digital router.
“Apple’s system preference pane for Universal Access: takes into account the probability that users needing assistance [...] would most likely appreciate larger, bolder text on that pref panel.” Might be nice to do for accessibility statements...
Clients love to request [splash pages] and these are the arguments I use to shoot them down
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography webtypography.net
A practical guide to web typography
- In-Browser Wireframe Prototyping with Frametastic xml-blog.com
What I’ve really longed for is an ultra-lightweight, simple tool for producing wireframes right inside the browser. No flash, no java, darn it - no server even - just a pure HTML / CSS / Javascript solution.
- Designer New Zealand made Shower Curtains, Bath Curtains, Lamps, Stationery and Homeware catherinedaviddesigns.com · Archived on
- Real Wireframes Get Real Results - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com · Archived on
Seven new fonts that will be part of the new Windows O/S, codenamed Longhorn.
- On fonts for the Web | clagnut/blog clagnut.com
Quick fonts on t'web roundup.
- Typefaces no one gets fired for using ~ Authentic Boredom cameronmoll.com
Make a list. Tested typefaces that are rock-solid reliable for print, web, or both.
- Design by Fire designbyfire.com
- .:Terra Plana:. .:Home:. terra-plana.co.uk
- CSS Frames | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
A quick Photoshop style Layout Grid Bookmarklet
Fine textiles in every context: fine art, interiors, fashion, travel and shopping.
Many designers don’t think about the code behind the sites they design [...] The good news is designers don’t need to learn code; they just need to change the way they think.
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