#design (850 links)
- AJAX APIs Playground code.google.com
This site details all standards & guidelines for developing and delivering products and services for BBC online (bbc.co.uk).
- Layers | Screen forensics layersapp.com
"Capture your displays as a Photoshop layered image". Can't think of a use for this yet, but cool.
- Shapeways | passionate about creating shapeways.com
We want to be a fun, inspiring place where you make your own 3D designs come to life using 3D printing.
- whitehouse.gov Website Code dotnetperls.com
You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET
- Really Interesting Group reallyinterestinggroup.com
- Noisy Decent Graphics: All the ephemera that's fit to print * noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com
[We] thought it would be interesting to take some stuff from the internet and print it in a newspaper format. Words as well as pictures. Like a Daily Me, but slower. When we discovered that most newspaper printers will let you do a short run on their press (this was exactly the same spec as the News Of The World) we decided to have some fun.
- The $300 Million Button uie.com
We were wrong about the first-time shoppers. They did mind registering. They resented having to register when they encountered the page. As one shopper told us, 'I'm not here to enter into a relationship. I just want to buy something.'
- Headlessness - Light pollution is complicated (or, don't blame it on the lighting designer) headlessness.com
The lighting designers take the rap for light pollution once more. Allow me to say a word or two in their (or, er, our) defence.
"Axure RP is the leading tool for rapidly creating wireframes, prototypes and specifications for applications and web sites." Expensive.
- Adactio: Journal—The Rise of HTML5 adactio.com
"We used this as an opportunity to really push what Dan has been calling "progressive enrichment": sprinkling in some modern CSS declarations even if not every browser gets all of them [...] So if you view the UX London site in IE6 it looks fine. Nothing special though. But if you view the site in a browser like Safari, a lot of little details shine through. The design is pretty much a test-case for the box-shadow property using RGBa."
#css #standards #html #html5 #css3 #clearleft #web #design #inspiration#progressiveenrichment #progressiveenhancement - MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Use "Furoshiki" (cloth gift wrapping) blog.makezine.com
"The Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan has a guide (PDF) on using cloth as opposed to paper for wrapping gifts to cut down on the wasted paper usually used in gift wrap." Next year.
Hurrah, 24 ways is back.
AWESOME! Maybe. Haven't read it yet.
- The Computer for the 21st Century ubiq.com
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." Must read.
- An ABC of R2 | Help | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"A series looking at different aspects of guardian.co.uk's rebuild and redesign project, which ran from October 2005 to September 2008." Must read.
- Should I use tables for layout? shouldiusetablesforlayout.com
Handy.
Why do double decker buses have windows? I’m not talking about the big windows we look out of, but the small letterbox shaped windows above that we can open and close? The answer, obviously, is so that passengers can regulate temperature and ventilation, but they come with a major problem: for half the year, they make passengers on the bus ill. At least, that’s my theory.
A website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail.
- adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » One way for surviving the downturn - delineate your business value (#7 and #10 in a series of 16) adaptivepath.com
By understanding a business’ problems or opportunities, we can figure out what behaviors we’re hoping to engage, and then connect that behavior to a financial outcome.
- 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.
- 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.
- OneLessDesk™ by Heckler Design hecklerdesign.com
Expensive but yum.
- ShirtsforCoders™ - Show the world your love for XHTML and CSS! shirtsforcoders.com
"With our shirts your dress code is always semantically correct." Dork dork dork.
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
- just paying the bills - a web studio justpayingthebills.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.
- 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
- Activate The Death Ray | A demonstration site by Andy Clarke activatethedeathray.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.