Links of the Week 14
September 11th, 2009 — 1 Comment
Make your site stand out, streamline your creative process, important things any website needs to succeed, spezify and iTunes 9′s design changes.
Links of Interest
3 ways to make your site stand out from the crowd
Great post by Paul Boag encouraging web designers to create websites that stand out from the competition.
5 Steps to Streamline your Creative Process
Five simple steps to get the most out of your creative process.
The Important Things Any Website Needs To Succeed
Consider these points the absolute necessary aspects of an web design and development.
Spezify
Spezify is a visual based search engine. Great way to find inspiration and is really cool despite being built in Flash. This was great find by, Mike, a colleague of mine where I work.
iTunes 9 – Interface Changes
iTunes seems to be the testbed app for Apple to introduce new design elements into OS X and iTunes 9 is no exception.
Design of the Week
Freelance Folder
Nice use of icons and description in navigation as well as tabs in sub navigation make the new design of Freelance Folder easy to use.
Inspiration for the Weekend
ffffffive
ffffffive is a great source for creative inspiration. One of those sites that you can spend hours on.
This Week on Inspect Element
Recent Web Designs that Don’t Follow Recent Trends
Wallpapers of the Week 14: The Sky
How to Design Buttons to Help Improve Usability
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September 9th, 2009 — 3 Comments
Nature can be beautiful and inspirational and the sky is no exception.
Links of the Week 13
September 4th, 2009 — No Comments
Vreate a valid non-Javascript Lightbox, go beyond your working comfort zone, top designers’ own favourite work, SVG support in all browsers and a code snippets gallery.
Links of Interest
How to Create a Valid Non-Javascript Lightbox
Go Beyond Your Working Comfort Zone
Be proud, your favourite pieces of work!
Google’s SVGWeb Brings SVG Support to All Browsers
Css-Tricks’ Code Snippets Gallery
Design of the Week
Max Voltar
Inspiration for the Weekend
blitblit
Wallpapers of the Week 13: Colour
September 2nd, 2009 — 5 Comments
When used well, colour can be very inspirational so here some wallpapers to inspire you each and every time you see your desktop.
Links of the Week 12
August 28th, 2009 — No Comments
Typedia, get creative beyond your education, A/B testing results, IKEA’s bizarre font swap, Photoshop disasters, design of the week and inspiration for the weekend.
Links of Interest
Typedia
Recently launched, community driven site with almost everything you ever wanted to know about typography including individual typefaces.
Don’t Stick With What You’ve Been Taught; You’re a Creative So Get Creative.
A great article encouraging designers to be more creative beyond what they’ve been taught.
Which Test Won
Great little site that takes A/B tests and shows which one was the best. Very handy to get an idea of what works best before you do your own testing.
IKEA says goodbye to Futura
Ikea has inexplicably changed their main font from Futura to Verdana. See just how bad it looks.
Awful Photoshop Disasters
A collection of funny Photoshop mishaps.
Design of the Week
Make Photoshop Faster
Dan Rubin has designed a beautiful site informing people of two simple steps to make Photoshop work. Superb use of colour, webkit transition effects and CSS3 properties.
Inspiration for the Weekend
Think of Ember as the flickr for designers. Make sure to check out the categories section to narrow down the type of inspiration you are looking for.
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Links of the Week 11
August 21st, 2009 — No Comments
The font-as-service, interview with the founders of Envato, blog effectively, alignment in design comic and advanced CSS selecting.
Links of Interest
The Font-as-Service
Elliot Jay Stocks, writing for I Love Typography, discusses the new wave of font services that aim to bring paid-for-fonts to the web.
Interview with Founders of Envato Collis and Cyan
A great insight into the minds that created the success of the Envato network. Must watch.
How to Blog Effectively
Great tips for bloggers or would-be bloggers to improve their work.
The Brads – Alignment in Design
A little lesson in alignment in the form of a web comic. A very fun and easy to digest method of learning.
Taming Advanced CSS Selectors
Smashing Magazine takes an extensive look at advanced CSS selectors.
Design of the Week
ngmoco’s plus
Plus is a social network for iPhone and iPod touch games. Now that ngmoco have released an SDK to third party developers they’ve also given their site an overhaul and it looks great.
Inspiration for the Weekend
The Design Inspiration
Found this site recently and it serves up a good mix of inspiration from various aspects of design.
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