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- Garrett Dimon / Templates & Stencils for Visio & Omnigraffle v1.garrettdimon.com
- 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)
- adaptive path » blog » Rachel Hinman » Greedy Mobile Interfaces adaptivepath.com
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.
- Welcome to Backboard getbackboard.com
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.
- Getting Satisfaction | GarrettDimon.com garrettdimon.com
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
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.
- We heart it / Visual bookmark for everyone weheartit.com
FFFFOUND! alternative.
- 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.
- JeffCroft.com: Luxury Type jeffcroft.com
"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.
- Aviary - Creation on the Fly a.viary.com
- 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?
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.
- ideasonideas » Blog Archive » Fuck style ideasonideas.com
"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.
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.
- NextUpdate.com Home | Next Update nextupdate.com
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.
- SimpleBits ~ Gridlasticness simplebits.com
A few notes when trying to create a grid layout using ems
Eight additional mistakes we've seen as we watch users try to create accounts and sign into the site.
- Peter Costello > Portfolio petercostello.co.uk
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.
- adaptive path » Don’t design for “mobile” - design for mobility adaptivepath.com
"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.
- Mule Design Studio's Blog: Words Words Words weblog.muledesign.com
Something funny about this whole Web 2.0 thing…much of what makes the experience is made of written words
- 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.
- vectormagic.net vectormagic.net
Converts bitmap images to vector images - it's an online auto-tracer.