Web design
Style Guides (for websites)
Its like the never ending story – “Web development team waits for designers to finish page – project delayed”; OK, you caught me – they never delay the project! ;) What I think every company, every brand and especially every website needs is a style guide. I caught this great post at Smashing Magazine called [...]
Sketchboards for UI
I ran across this article on boxuk.com called “Using Sketchboards to design great User Interfaces quickly” – it really gives some great examples of sketching out sites. The “different” part for me was the idea of putting all the sketches on the wall together to show the interaction of the pages. It was a hello moment for me.
Textures are hot
Image via Wikipedia This is a great post about textures in web design. Hey – most people’s bandwidth is up, let’s make things look nice. If you look around at well-designed websites in CSS galleries or any other source of design inspiration, you’ll see that texture is extremely common in modern Web design. One of [...]
Best User Interface/Information Design Article I've read
Scanning through the old Google reader last night I came across a post at psdtuts.com called “9 Information Design Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer” – I’m not sure if I have been sheltered, not paying attention – or if this article is just that good…but this is a definite thought changer for [...]
Say what?
Image by captcreate via Flickr Caught a post this morning that I really liked – it was called “But you’re not saying anything” it is talking about company logos but my favorite line was: If you price your products like the competition does, you’re not saying anything with your pricing. This reminds me of something [...]
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