#design (850 links)
- This Ain’t No Disco aintnodisco.com
This Ain’t No Disco {it’s where we work} invites Agencies from across the world to show us their inner sanctum
- The Sandbox · plaintxt.org plaintxt.org
The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS. More experienced designers will drool at the rich semantic markup.
- SonSpring | PNG Overlay sonspring.com
"Creating a transparent PNG overlay which can be used as a mask / frame around regular JPEG or GIF. This way, a typical CMS installation can be configured so users can upload photos without having to worry about using any graphics program to apply filters
Since this is a technology blog I want to focus on just a couple of technical areas that I’ve been tracking — templating and layout, and some of the issues we’ve had there.
- Coding Horror: Usability Is Timeless codinghorror.com
The very existence of the new, updated book hints that usability guidelines evolve over time. In one of the first chapters, Nielsen makes this explicit by revisiting earlier web usability issues to see how much they've improved in seven years. Each
- Actual Browser Sizes (final) - Baekdal.com baekdal.com
In order to support 95% of your visitors, you need to design for a maximum size of 776x424px.
- greenormal: New Article for Mediacat greenormal.blogspot.com
"If the world falls apart then there is no market. And if a much greener substitute is brought out by a competitor, there is a good chance you will lose a lot of business too. Not to mention the risk if Greenpeace attacks you. Many companies have accepted
- fabric of folly - a weblog by Dan Taylor fabricoffolly.blogspot.com
Despite often being deprioritised (or forgotten about altogether) by web developers, the lowly favicon (a contraction of favourite icon) is becoming an increasingly important aspect of brand identity on the web.
- Subtraction: Oh Yeeaahh! subtraction.com
Creating some kind of definitive documentation about my approach to designing for the Web with the typographic grid as my primary layout tool.
"[With eyetracking] we can see that a user may navigate the page of an interface that houses the info she wants," she said, "but if the text is poorly presented, or the navigation is cluttered, or there are too many superfluous images so she cannot easily
- Tantek's Thoughts — 2007 February tantek.com
Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design: "I'm calling these hypotheses instead of laws because they have yet to be proven out through rigrous scientific study and critique. I've developed them merely from anecdotes and examples."
- Designing for Content | GarrettDimon.com garrettdimon.com
Visual decoration had to be kept to minimum. For me, this mean forgoing any heavy visual treatment of the header or inclusion of a mark or logo. [...] I would have to rely on typography, the grid, and whitespace to create an aesthetically pleasing experie
- Really Wild Flowers - British wildflower seed, plants, bulbs & orchids for your garden reallywildflowers.co.uk
We provide everything you’ll need to plan and create a beautiful wild flower garden or meadow.
- Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard informationarchitects.jp
- Garrett Dimon / Documenting Interface Design garrettdimon.com
I’ve done my best to migrate away from traditional documentation methods and find ways that actual help others visualize what the end product should look like.
Heuristic evaluation is a technique that involves analysing the usability of a website against a set of general usability precepts.
- 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.
- User experience design resources (Dey Alexander Consulting) deyalexander.com.au
- 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.
Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
- Vitamin Features » How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design? thinkvitamin.com
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
- Vitamin Features » Communicating web 2.0 through design thinkvitamin.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.
- 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.
- Vitamin Interviews » Jeff Veen thinkvitamin.com
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.
Don't be afraid, little sufferer of ADD.... there is hope. Get the f*ck out of the boxes!
“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...