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Office War
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The coolest thing I've seen. I love it.
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March Roundup: 48 Great articles on Design & Development
Twelve Things Most Sites Need - Part I
Web Design Articles | WPDFD.com – There are a plethora of Websites out there, each one unique in its design, its content, markup, features, functionality, and in myriad other ways. Yet, despite these differences, there are specific needs that should be met with near consistency, Internet-wide, regardless of the site. Let’s take a loo...
A Graphic Look at SXSWi 2009
Viget Inspire : The Design Lab – Sharing notes at this year's conference went beyond Twitter -- there were a few folks at the SXSW Interactive Conference who took sketchnotes. Sketchnotes are elaborate notes with handwritten lettering and sketchy drawings of what is happening during the talk. They are an artform; a... MMO Free Trial Landing Page Design Review
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog – A free trial has become something of a pre-requisite for a subscription-based MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game). In fact, of the major MMO s only Age of Conan does not offer a free trial. With so much competition for players to choose from it is critical that MMO free trial land... 25 Scripts for Dropdown Navigation Menus
Vandelay Website Design – Navigation menus are important to any website. Well designed navigation can improve the look and appearance of a site as well as the usability. For larger sites with a lot of content or pages, drop down menus are popular because the can make it easier to move through the site with less clicks. In thi... SignSphere: Creative launch roundup
DesignWorkPlan – SignSphere is a monthly round up of interesting articles in the blogosphere about inspiration, design, typography, graphic-design and more. If you have anything you want to share please use the contact form to send in information. This month features the many startups of inspirational websites for t... Retweet iPhone App for Twitter: Free for 24h
Mashable! – “Retweeting” is a natural way of finding the best and most useful content on Twitter. By reposting a tweet and putting “RT” plus the originator’s username at the start (eg. “RT @mashable”) Twitter users can share tweets that interest them. On the web, there are several great tools for following re... Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post
Mashable! – One of the best things about the web and social media is how much great information is written and produced every single day. If you’re a regular reader of blogs, you probably come across great articles that you just want everyone to know about. But what’s the best way to share these posts? Luckily... New Module: Forms
EE Insider – Yesterday PlayCode released a new form builder module with a simple name: Forms . This module allows you to easily build forms for your website; build a form to collect information about visitors, a contact form, allow file uploads, whatever you can think of! In your Forms-powered forms you can use ... We Put Pepsi’s Ridiculous New Aquafina Product To The Test
TechCrunch – We cover tech news here at TechCrunch, so I was surprised to see a 5 lb overnight shipment arrive from Pepsi containing three half liter bottles of Aquafina water. The reason for the special delivery? The company is launching a new plastic bottle that contains half the plastic content of the old bott... Refreshing Healthy Child: Managing Growing Content & Purpose
Viget Inspire : The Design Lab – Viget had the opportunity to design a new online home for Healthy Child Healthy World two years ago when they were in the middle of a big rebranding endeavor. The outcome was a success and we launched a site that reinforced/helped spread the HealthyChild.org message of understandin... 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends
Smashing Apps – Getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the ... Getting serious about your meeting problem
Seth's Blog – Do you have one? Some folks are going to eight hours of meeting a day. At Ford, they used to have meetings to prepare for meetings, just to be sure everyone had their story straight. If you're serious about solving your meeting problem, getting things done and saving time, try this for one week. If i... 20 Excellent Blogs for Those Who Love Design
Web Design Ledger – Whether you’re a web designer, a print designer, or a photographer, you probably share a common trait with me and other creative types - a love for all things design related. I’m a web designer, but I love reading blogs that cover anything about design. I think there is much to be learned from explor... 35 Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs
instantShift – Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Type is combined with negative space, graphic... 7 Productivity Tools I Couldn’t Live Without
Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers – There are only so many hours in a day, so as freelancers it is wise for us to use the time we do have effectively. From keyboard shortcuts to limiting outside distractions, we all have our own ways of speeding up the work involved in certain tasks. Personally, my day can consist of a number of differ... Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
Smashing Magazine – As a general rule, most Web developers, especially usability enthusiasts, say it is bad practice to use drop-down menus because they are confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. From a design standpoint, however, drop-down menus are an excellent feature because they help clean up a busy layo... 50 Inspirational Website Introductions
Webdesigner Depot – In portfolio web pages, especially in the field of design, one of the first things that you will notice is an introductory text consisting of a few words about the company or the designer behind the site. This can be extremely useful for readers, as it provides quick and direct information about the... Spellr.us
eHub – Spell check your entire website in one go. URL: Spellr.us . ...Quickly Create Media-Rich Chat Rooms with Conference.io
Mashable! – Let’s take a moment to reflect on the early 90s, a time when AOL was massively popular and chat rooms of all varieties were all the rage. Chat rooms have since evolved and taken on many different forms and shapes with microblogging supplanting the hearts and minds of today’s Web-obsessed. With Friend... Create Effective Search Result Pages
The UX Booth – What are the characteristics of a good search results page? Search is usually the primary or secondary means of navigating a website. Because of it’s wide use, it makes sense to allocate some time to designing a user friendly search. In this post, I discuss what makes search results effective and inc... 5 Universal Principles For Successful eCommerce-Sites
Smashing Magazine – When was the last time you called customer support because you were having problems checking out online? Probably never! Cart abandonment rate is at around 60%, and most of it happens before the user even begins the checkout process. Sometimes, convincing your customers to trust you is your biggest c... The Facebook iPhone app has been reworked and open-sourced
VentureBeat – Joe Hewitt, the Facebook engineer behind the company’s iPhone app, stated several months ago his intention to open-source the code he used to make that app. Unfortunately, that proved to be more difficult than he anticipated. But now, five months later, he’s basically ready to go with what he calls ... Creative 404 Error Pages Around for Inspiration
instantShift – One field often neglected by web developers is the proper handling of 404 Errors – the pages that visitors get when they attempt to access a page or file on your site that doesn’t exist or has been moved. While it’s usually very easy to create a custom 404 page to offer your visitors a comfortable e... Mashable’s Social Media and Web Events Networking Guide
Mashable! – It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section . Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media partnership. March 23-27, 2009, New Y... 40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures for Ornate Backgrounds
Web Design Ledger – The use of ornate patterns in web design has been popular for several years now. Not only does it add a lot of intricate detail, but it’s also a great way to add a level of sophistication to a design. Here are some of the most beautiful ornate patterns and textures that I have found. damask wallpaper... 30 Useful Web Design Books for 2009
Webdesigner Depot – To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must seek out self education sources as often as possible , such as books, or you’ll be left behind. The year 2009 promises to bring us some excellent, and even groundbreaking, new reads. Listed below are 30 web design related books from some of... How to build companies that matter
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies – Eric Ries, a serial entrepreneur, most recently was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, his third startup. He's the author of the blog Lessons Learned , co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996), and a Venture Advisor at Klein... Find The Perfect Image For Any Project In 5 Steps
Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers – Finding the right image is a constant challenge for designers, writers, freelancers, photographers — and just about anyone else who works on visual projects. Wading through the myriad of images and websites that are out there is tough, and picking a single one of those photos can be even harder. In t... The Lingual Proposition
Hell Yeah Dude - A voice for a young generation – Have you ever gotten caught up in using the same words to describe a design? Well don’t, there are plenty of other really great words in the dictionary that can describe a design, style, mood, or feeling much better than your classic “minimal, simple, or great” In an effort to help young designers, o... Good Call-To-Action Buttons
The UX Booth – What can you do to make your calls-to-action more effective? The call-to-action button is an important tool in the user experience designer’s box of tricks. In this article I’ll give you a few pointers on providing effective ones. Prioritizing tasks Some tasks on your website are more important than ... Fairey Wins Design Museum Prize
CR Blog – Though dogged by continuing copyright controversy, Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster was named as the Brit Insurance Design of the Year last night. The design was chosen from the seven category winners by a panel of judges including Alan Yentob, Paola Antonelli, Karen Blincoe, Peter Cook, Sarah Mower an... 5 Things Your Clients Should Know
Webdesigner Depot – Do you ever feel like you are endlessly repeating the same day? I do, every time I attend a kickoff meeting with a new client. Each time I find myself covering the same old issues from explaining the client’s role, to encouraging investment in content. I find it incredibly frustrating and this is wha... 13 Photoshop CS4 Video Tutorials for Learning New Features
Web Design Ledger – If you’re like me, sometimes you are so busy with projects that you fail to take time to familiarize yourself with the new features of upgraded software. Since Photoshop is the design tool of choice for many web designers, and since CS4 hasn’t been out very long, I’ve decided to round up some useful ... 10 Principles For Readable Web Typography
Smashing Magazine – by Matt Cronin Readability is one of the more important aspects of Web design usability. Readable text affects how users process the information in the content. Poor readability scares readers away from the content. On the other hand, done correctly, readability allows users to efficiently read and t... Producteev Enters Public Beta (Get One Of 20 Lifetime Memberships)
TechCrunch – Producteev , the task-management service that launched in private beta at LeWeb is now in public beta and anyone can sign up. I described Producteev as “Netvibes for group product management” because its dashboard presents a grid of boxes for each group task at hand. The public beta version now has... Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices
Smashing Magazine – By Jacob Gube On websites that have a lot of pages, breadcrumb navigation can greatly enhance the way users find their way around. In terms of usability, breadcrumbs reduce the number of actions a website visitor needs to take in order to get to a higher-level page, and they improve the findabili... UnHub Offers A Simple Way To Showcase The Online You
TechCrunch – I’ll say it right off the bat: there’s a plethora of ways to bundle all your online identities (i.e. your social networking profiles) and share all of them using only one URL, so I know the one I’m going to introduce isn’t unique any way you look at it. That said, it’s lightweight, ridiculously easy ... 5 Tips to Make Your 404 Page More Usable
The UX Booth – When a user lands on your 404 page, do they feel completely lost, or do they have a sense of direction? In this post I will outline 5 ways to make your 404 error page more usable . In some cases, a 404 page may be the first impression a visitor has of your site. Why not make it a good one? These step... New Smashing Freebies For Designers and Bloggers
Smashing Magazine – As you may or may not know, we love to smash freebies around. Today we are glad to release the Web Developer icons set, designed by Pedja Rusic, a WP Smashing WordPress theme, designed by Greg Johnson and a Cafe icon set, designed by Enk. All icons and the theme are available for free download and c... 100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration
Mashable! – Finding inspiration is not always as simple as it sounds, whether you’ve been designing for years or only weeks. Below is a collection of 100 great web resources to find inspiration and direction on your next project, whether it be online or in print. These range from galleries of graphic and web des... Top 10 Social Networks for Entrepreneurs
Mashable! – Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog . Looking for a job? Consider creating your own. There are a number of social resources to help you connect with other entrepreneurs and g... Showcase of Beautiful Fashion Websites
Smashing Magazine – By Steven Snell From a web designer’s perspective, it can be very interesting to look at the top websites from a particular industry to see how they relate to their target audience, the different approaches that are used, and how they compare to websites in other industries. The fashion industry con... 25 Nature-Inspired Website Designs
Vandelay Website Design – Inspiration or web design can come from anywhere. An increasing number of websites are including elements from nature in the design. Background images, photos, illustrations… nature can be used a number of different ways in web design. In this post we’ll look at 25 excellent examples. For more nature... Design in Action: Real World Examples of the Design Process
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog – I always enjoy reading real world examples of the design process in action. It's fascinating to see the thought process and choices made in arriving at a certain design. I especially like 37 Signals' occasional 'Design Decisions' posts where they talk through the process of redesigning an element of ... 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded
Mashable! – David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and founder of Spark Media Solutions , a firm that helps companies build their industry voice through storytelling and social media. His technology report, The Spark Minute , can be heard every day on Green 960 and 910 KNEW in San Francisco. When I was workin... Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow
PSDTUTS – Let’s look closely at a crucial and time-saving product for designers called Adobe Kuler. We’ll learn to explore, create and share color themes using the Kuler website and the built in extension of Kuler in Photoshop CS4. What’s Adobe Kuler? It’s a web-hosted application, providing free color themes ... Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture
The UX Booth – A typical Information Architecture diagram Photo by Timothy Greig Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the... 50+ Popular Airline Logos
Webdesigner Depot – Every day thousands of people take it to the air… With so many airlines to choose from, branding is extremely important and at its core lies logo design . In this article we’ll take a logo at the logos of over 50 popular airlines . The list is by no means a complete list of all airlines and is just ... 11 Excellent Solutions for Creating Tooltips
Web Design Ledger – Tooltips in web design are becoming more and more commonplace. Even though I don’t think they are appropriate for every type of site, they can be a very useful addition when implemented correctly. If you are planning on using tooltips in your next project, the hardest part may be choosing the right s... 5 Simple Ways to Improve Web Typography
Webdesigner Depot – Type is one of the most-used elements of the web. Think about it. Unless you are YouTube or Flickr, chances are your site visitors are coming for your text content - not the fancy packaging that surrounds it. So why are web designers still treating text like a secondary element? Good typography bring... 70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques
Smashing Magazine – by Noura Yehia As the Web grows and becomes more dynamic, more and more websites have user-generated content and tools that greatly improve the user experience in terms of usability and accessibility. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, upload, auto-complete, image crop... Return on Design
Seth's Blog – Return on investment is easy to measure. You put money in, you measure money out, divide and prosper. But return on design? (Design: graphics, system engineering, user interface etc.) Design can take money and time and guts, and what do you get in return? It turns out that the sort of return you're g... HOW TO: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles
Mashable! – Start counting the number of social media websites you have a profile with, right now. Out of fingers yet? Facebook , Twitter , Flickr , and YouTube are just the start of it - for people active on social websites, you could have several dozen social media profiles, half of them using a really old ... 40 Web Design Artists And 102 Websites Worth Watching
1stwebdesigner - Love In Design – I am continuing Top DeviantArtist worth watching series and now I stopped to the best web designers I could find. I only listed those artists, whom layouts I found to be really unique and inspiring, taking classical web design actually to the next level. These layouts are really artworks with amazing... Quick Usability Checklist
The UX Booth – Does your site check off all the items mentioned on this Usability Checklist? After reviewing websites for a few months, I’ve begun to see general patterns emerge that make a site more or less usable. In this post, I’d like to highlight some of the more common problems designers should address on th... 8 Tips to Design a Charity Website
Webdesigner Depot – A lot of charities rely on voluntary funding. This funding is carefully distributed and there are often more important things ahead of a generous budget for the website. So how does a charity get the most out of its website? It needs to let users find out information about the charity, but the main o... 4 Tips for Great Presentations & Slide Composition
Tutorial Blog – When it comes to creating awesome slideshows — whether you use PowerPoint, Keynote or other slideshow presentation software — there are some basic tips to keep in mind. Have a consistent overall template design. Animate with a purpose. Have excellent content and strong organization. Speak with bullet... February UX Roundup
The UX Booth – Over the past month we’ve assembled some great UX related posts. January’s roundup was a hit so we figured we’d do it again! 9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design Dmitry Fadeyev of Usability Post writes on Smashing Magazine detailing nine incredible common usability mistakes in web design. The... Fliggo
eHub – Create a video site in seconds. Build a video blog, the next YouTube or just a private place to share videos. URL: Fliggo . ... Logo Design Trends 2009 - Showcase
1stwebdesigner - Love In Design – As requested I created this article and tried to select the most appropriate logos based on LogoOrange equitable prognosis, which I think is very appropriate. However these are just prognosis and suggestions, where to go and inspire You to new designs, we’ll see however where those logo trends will l... Best of the Web - February 2009
PSDTUTS – February is known for its lack of days when we have a leap year but there is no lack in great Photoshop material! This month we have tutorials on creating a breathtaking fantasy scene, an amazing set of icons and wallpapers, and the usual inspirational articles. So lets get into it! Tutorial Wrap ... 7 Fresh and Simple Ways to Test Cross-Browser Compatibility
Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers – This post is written for designers, developers, or anyone else who has struggled with testing their websites across multiple browsers. As little as one year ago, there were almost no good options for testing cross-browser compatibility of websites. The tools out there usually had significant drawback... 7 Interface Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces
Webdesigner Depot – What is simplicity? Simplicity is the quality of being natural, plain and easy to understand. It is not surprising then that simplicity is often thrived for in user interface design. Most people naturally dislike complexity in devices and software. Yes, some people find joy in figuring out how some... Test your information architecture with Treejack
ux digest – We put a lot of emphasis on optimizing usability, user interactions and user interfaces. One area of the user experience that we often overlook testing on is information architecture. This is likely due to an absence of methods to test the effectiveness of information architecture. Sam Ng of Optimal... 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts
Smashing Magazine – Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you d... Beautiful and inspiring Designers Quotes
DesignWorkPlan – Recently I came accross various websites filled with quotes from designers & artists from around the world, insiprational quotes to get you thinking. In this article I have selected various top design quotes that apply to my experience and gives me power to be creative and think foward. I have also a... Free Fonts Of The Month: Myndraine, Museo Sans
Smashing Magazine – Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you d... Test your Website: A 57-Point Checklist for Maximum Usability
Virtual Hosting Blog – So you’ve got a website, but do you know whether it’s usable or not? The answer to this question can make the difference between a successful site and one that’s just ignored. Go through this checklist to make sure your site is up to snuff. Do you answer your user’s questions? : Users visit a site be... Free Fonts Of The Month: Fertigo Pro, FF Nuvo
Smashing Magazine – Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you d... Inspiration Overload: 100 CSS Galleries You Need to Check Out
Virtual Hosting Blog – Whether you’re suffering from designer’s block, or just want to see what your competition is up to, design galleries are an excellent tool. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of them available, and we’ve found 100 of the best. Searchable If you’re looking for a specific color, style, or genre, check... Design 101 - for programmers
UX Magazine Articles – Programming is an underappreciated art form. It is there, in the background, invisible to but a few people who usually are looking to fix it, copy it or simply understand it. A successful human interface can make the most complex functionality work at the click of a button which in turn keeps the c... The Layers of Design: the style layer
UX Magazine Articles – Designing for the Web, as I see it, is a multi-layered process. It’s a process in which each layer addresses specific design needs related to client aims, brand characteristics and site user habits and expectations. Sadly, the last of these layers to be applied in the process, the application of styl...
Viget Inspire : The Design Lab – Sharing notes at this year's conference went beyond Twitter -- there were a few folks at the SXSW Interactive Conference who took sketchnotes. Sketchnotes are elaborate notes with handwritten lettering and sketchy drawings of what is happening during the talk. They are an artform; a... MMO Free Trial Landing Page Design Review
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog – A free trial has become something of a pre-requisite for a subscription-based MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game). In fact, of the major MMO s only Age of Conan does not offer a free trial. With so much competition for players to choose from it is critical that MMO free trial land... 25 Scripts for Dropdown Navigation Menus
Vandelay Website Design – Navigation menus are important to any website. Well designed navigation can improve the look and appearance of a site as well as the usability. For larger sites with a lot of content or pages, drop down menus are popular because the can make it easier to move through the site with less clicks. In thi... SignSphere: Creative launch roundup
DesignWorkPlan – SignSphere is a monthly round up of interesting articles in the blogosphere about inspiration, design, typography, graphic-design and more. If you have anything you want to share please use the contact form to send in information. This month features the many startups of inspirational websites for t... Retweet iPhone App for Twitter: Free for 24h
Mashable! – “Retweeting” is a natural way of finding the best and most useful content on Twitter. By reposting a tweet and putting “RT” plus the originator’s username at the start (eg. “RT @mashable”) Twitter users can share tweets that interest them. On the web, there are several great tools for following re... Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post
Mashable! – One of the best things about the web and social media is how much great information is written and produced every single day. If you’re a regular reader of blogs, you probably come across great articles that you just want everyone to know about. But what’s the best way to share these posts? Luckily... New Module: Forms
EE Insider – Yesterday PlayCode released a new form builder module with a simple name: Forms . This module allows you to easily build forms for your website; build a form to collect information about visitors, a contact form, allow file uploads, whatever you can think of! In your Forms-powered forms you can use ... We Put Pepsi’s Ridiculous New Aquafina Product To The Test
TechCrunch – We cover tech news here at TechCrunch, so I was surprised to see a 5 lb overnight shipment arrive from Pepsi containing three half liter bottles of Aquafina water. The reason for the special delivery? The company is launching a new plastic bottle that contains half the plastic content of the old bott... Refreshing Healthy Child: Managing Growing Content & Purpose
Viget Inspire : The Design Lab – Viget had the opportunity to design a new online home for Healthy Child Healthy World two years ago when they were in the middle of a big rebranding endeavor. The outcome was a success and we launched a site that reinforced/helped spread the HealthyChild.org message of understandin... 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends
Smashing Apps – Getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the ... Getting serious about your meeting problem
Seth's Blog – Do you have one? Some folks are going to eight hours of meeting a day. At Ford, they used to have meetings to prepare for meetings, just to be sure everyone had their story straight. If you're serious about solving your meeting problem, getting things done and saving time, try this for one week. If i... 20 Excellent Blogs for Those Who Love Design
Web Design Ledger – Whether you’re a web designer, a print designer, or a photographer, you probably share a common trait with me and other creative types - a love for all things design related. I’m a web designer, but I love reading blogs that cover anything about design. I think there is much to be learned from explor... 35 Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs
instantShift – Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Type is combined with negative space, graphic... 7 Productivity Tools I Couldn’t Live Without
Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers – There are only so many hours in a day, so as freelancers it is wise for us to use the time we do have effectively. From keyboard shortcuts to limiting outside distractions, we all have our own ways of speeding up the work involved in certain tasks. Personally, my day can consist of a number of differ... Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
Smashing Magazine – As a general rule, most Web developers, especially usability enthusiasts, say it is bad practice to use drop-down menus because they are confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. From a design standpoint, however, drop-down menus are an excellent feature because they help clean up a busy layo... 50 Inspirational Website Introductions
Webdesigner Depot – In portfolio web pages, especially in the field of design, one of the first things that you will notice is an introductory text consisting of a few words about the company or the designer behind the site. This can be extremely useful for readers, as it provides quick and direct information about the... Spellr.us
eHub – Spell check your entire website in one go. URL: Spellr.us . ...Quickly Create Media-Rich Chat Rooms with Conference.io
Mashable! – Let’s take a moment to reflect on the early 90s, a time when AOL was massively popular and chat rooms of all varieties were all the rage. Chat rooms have since evolved and taken on many different forms and shapes with microblogging supplanting the hearts and minds of today’s Web-obsessed. With Friend... Create Effective Search Result Pages
The UX Booth – What are the characteristics of a good search results page? Search is usually the primary or secondary means of navigating a website. Because of it’s wide use, it makes sense to allocate some time to designing a user friendly search. In this post, I discuss what makes search results effective and inc... 5 Universal Principles For Successful eCommerce-Sites
Smashing Magazine – When was the last time you called customer support because you were having problems checking out online? Probably never! Cart abandonment rate is at around 60%, and most of it happens before the user even begins the checkout process. Sometimes, convincing your customers to trust you is your biggest c... The Facebook iPhone app has been reworked and open-sourced
VentureBeat – Joe Hewitt, the Facebook engineer behind the company’s iPhone app, stated several months ago his intention to open-source the code he used to make that app. Unfortunately, that proved to be more difficult than he anticipated. But now, five months later, he’s basically ready to go with what he calls ... Creative 404 Error Pages Around for Inspiration
instantShift – One field often neglected by web developers is the proper handling of 404 Errors – the pages that visitors get when they attempt to access a page or file on your site that doesn’t exist or has been moved. While it’s usually very easy to create a custom 404 page to offer your visitors a comfortable e... Mashable’s Social Media and Web Events Networking Guide
Mashable! – It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section . Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media partnership. March 23-27, 2009, New Y... 40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures for Ornate Backgrounds
Web Design Ledger – The use of ornate patterns in web design has been popular for several years now. Not only does it add a lot of intricate detail, but it’s also a great way to add a level of sophistication to a design. Here are some of the most beautiful ornate patterns and textures that I have found. damask wallpaper... 30 Useful Web Design Books for 2009
Webdesigner Depot – To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must seek out self education sources as often as possible , such as books, or you’ll be left behind. The year 2009 promises to bring us some excellent, and even groundbreaking, new reads. Listed below are 30 web design related books from some of... How to build companies that matter
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies – Eric Ries, a serial entrepreneur, most recently was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, his third startup. He's the author of the blog Lessons Learned , co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996), and a Venture Advisor at Klein... Find The Perfect Image For Any Project In 5 Steps
Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers – Finding the right image is a constant challenge for designers, writers, freelancers, photographers — and just about anyone else who works on visual projects. Wading through the myriad of images and websites that are out there is tough, and picking a single one of those photos can be even harder. In t... The Lingual Proposition
Hell Yeah Dude - A voice for a young generation – Have you ever gotten caught up in using the same words to describe a design? Well don’t, there are plenty of other really great words in the dictionary that can describe a design, style, mood, or feeling much better than your classic “minimal, simple, or great” In an effort to help young designers, o... Good Call-To-Action Buttons
The UX Booth – What can you do to make your calls-to-action more effective? The call-to-action button is an important tool in the user experience designer’s box of tricks. In this article I’ll give you a few pointers on providing effective ones. Prioritizing tasks Some tasks on your website are more important than ... Fairey Wins Design Museum Prize
CR Blog – Though dogged by continuing copyright controversy, Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster was named as the Brit Insurance Design of the Year last night. The design was chosen from the seven category winners by a panel of judges including Alan Yentob, Paola Antonelli, Karen Blincoe, Peter Cook, Sarah Mower an... 5 Things Your Clients Should Know
Webdesigner Depot – Do you ever feel like you are endlessly repeating the same day? I do, every time I attend a kickoff meeting with a new client. Each time I find myself covering the same old issues from explaining the client’s role, to encouraging investment in content. I find it incredibly frustrating and this is wha... 13 Photoshop CS4 Video Tutorials for Learning New Features
Web Design Ledger – If you’re like me, sometimes you are so busy with projects that you fail to take time to familiarize yourself with the new features of upgraded software. Since Photoshop is the design tool of choice for many web designers, and since CS4 hasn’t been out very long, I’ve decided to round up some useful ... 10 Principles For Readable Web Typography
Smashing Magazine – by Matt Cronin Readability is one of the more important aspects of Web design usability. Readable text affects how users process the information in the content. Poor readability scares readers away from the content. On the other hand, done correctly, readability allows users to efficiently read and t... Producteev Enters Public Beta (Get One Of 20 Lifetime Memberships)
TechCrunch – Producteev , the task-management service that launched in private beta at LeWeb is now in public beta and anyone can sign up. I described Producteev as “Netvibes for group product management” because its dashboard presents a grid of boxes for each group task at hand. The public beta version now has... Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices
Smashing Magazine – By Jacob Gube On websites that have a lot of pages, breadcrumb navigation can greatly enhance the way users find their way around. In terms of usability, breadcrumbs reduce the number of actions a website visitor needs to take in order to get to a higher-level page, and they improve the findabili... UnHub Offers A Simple Way To Showcase The Online You
TechCrunch – I’ll say it right off the bat: there’s a plethora of ways to bundle all your online identities (i.e. your social networking profiles) and share all of them using only one URL, so I know the one I’m going to introduce isn’t unique any way you look at it. That said, it’s lightweight, ridiculously easy ... 5 Tips to Make Your 404 Page More Usable
The UX Booth – When a user lands on your 404 page, do they feel completely lost, or do they have a sense of direction? In this post I will outline 5 ways to make your 404 error page more usable . In some cases, a 404 page may be the first impression a visitor has of your site. Why not make it a good one? These step... New Smashing Freebies For Designers and Bloggers
Smashing Magazine – As you may or may not know, we love to smash freebies around. Today we are glad to release the Web Developer icons set, designed by Pedja Rusic, a WP Smashing WordPress theme, designed by Greg Johnson and a Cafe icon set, designed by Enk. All icons and the theme are available for free download and c... 100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration
Mashable! – Finding inspiration is not always as simple as it sounds, whether you’ve been designing for years or only weeks. Below is a collection of 100 great web resources to find inspiration and direction on your next project, whether it be online or in print. These range from galleries of graphic and web des... Top 10 Social Networks for Entrepreneurs
Mashable! – Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog . Looking for a job? Consider creating your own. There are a number of social resources to help you connect with other entrepreneurs and g... Showcase of Beautiful Fashion Websites
Smashing Magazine – By Steven Snell From a web designer’s perspective, it can be very interesting to look at the top websites from a particular industry to see how they relate to their target audience, the different approaches that are used, and how they compare to websites in other industries. The fashion industry con... 25 Nature-Inspired Website Designs
Vandelay Website Design – Inspiration or web design can come from anywhere. An increasing number of websites are including elements from nature in the design. Background images, photos, illustrations… nature can be used a number of different ways in web design. In this post we’ll look at 25 excellent examples. For more nature... Design in Action: Real World Examples of the Design Process
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog – I always enjoy reading real world examples of the design process in action. It's fascinating to see the thought process and choices made in arriving at a certain design. I especially like 37 Signals' occasional 'Design Decisions' posts where they talk through the process of redesigning an element of ... 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded
Mashable! – David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and founder of Spark Media Solutions , a firm that helps companies build their industry voice through storytelling and social media. His technology report, The Spark Minute , can be heard every day on Green 960 and 910 KNEW in San Francisco. When I was workin... Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow
PSDTUTS – Let’s look closely at a crucial and time-saving product for designers called Adobe Kuler. We’ll learn to explore, create and share color themes using the Kuler website and the built in extension of Kuler in Photoshop CS4. What’s Adobe Kuler? It’s a web-hosted application, providing free color themes ... Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture
The UX Booth – A typical Information Architecture diagram Photo by Timothy Greig Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the... 50+ Popular Airline Logos
Webdesigner Depot – Every day thousands of people take it to the air… With so many airlines to choose from, branding is extremely important and at its core lies logo design . In this article we’ll take a logo at the logos of over 50 popular airlines . The list is by no means a complete list of all airlines and is just ... 11 Excellent Solutions for Creating Tooltips
Web Design Ledger – Tooltips in web design are becoming more and more commonplace. Even though I don’t think they are appropriate for every type of site, they can be a very useful addition when implemented correctly. If you are planning on using tooltips in your next project, the hardest part may be choosing the right s... 5 Simple Ways to Improve Web Typography
Webdesigner Depot – Type is one of the most-used elements of the web. Think about it. Unless you are YouTube or Flickr, chances are your site visitors are coming for your text content - not the fancy packaging that surrounds it. So why are web designers still treating text like a secondary element? Good typography bring... 70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques
Smashing Magazine – by Noura Yehia As the Web grows and becomes more dynamic, more and more websites have user-generated content and tools that greatly improve the user experience in terms of usability and accessibility. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, upload, auto-complete, image crop... Return on Design
Seth's Blog – Return on investment is easy to measure. You put money in, you measure money out, divide and prosper. But return on design? (Design: graphics, system engineering, user interface etc.) Design can take money and time and guts, and what do you get in return? It turns out that the sort of return you're g... HOW TO: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles
Mashable! – Start counting the number of social media websites you have a profile with, right now. Out of fingers yet? Facebook , Twitter , Flickr , and YouTube are just the start of it - for people active on social websites, you could have several dozen social media profiles, half of them using a really old ... 40 Web Design Artists And 102 Websites Worth Watching
1stwebdesigner - Love In Design – I am continuing Top DeviantArtist worth watching series and now I stopped to the best web designers I could find. I only listed those artists, whom layouts I found to be really unique and inspiring, taking classical web design actually to the next level. These layouts are really artworks with amazing... Quick Usability Checklist
The UX Booth – Does your site check off all the items mentioned on this Usability Checklist? After reviewing websites for a few months, I’ve begun to see general patterns emerge that make a site more or less usable. In this post, I’d like to highlight some of the more common problems designers should address on th... 8 Tips to Design a Charity Website
Webdesigner Depot – A lot of charities rely on voluntary funding. This funding is carefully distributed and there are often more important things ahead of a generous budget for the website. So how does a charity get the most out of its website? It needs to let users find out information about the charity, but the main o... 4 Tips for Great Presentations & Slide Composition
Tutorial Blog – When it comes to creating awesome slideshows — whether you use PowerPoint, Keynote or other slideshow presentation software — there are some basic tips to keep in mind. Have a consistent overall template design. Animate with a purpose. Have excellent content and strong organization. Speak with bullet... February UX Roundup
The UX Booth – Over the past month we’ve assembled some great UX related posts. January’s roundup was a hit so we figured we’d do it again! 9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design Dmitry Fadeyev of Usability Post writes on Smashing Magazine detailing nine incredible common usability mistakes in web design. The... Fliggo
eHub – Create a video site in seconds. Build a video blog, the next YouTube or just a private place to share videos. URL: Fliggo . ... Logo Design Trends 2009 - Showcase
1stwebdesigner - Love In Design – As requested I created this article and tried to select the most appropriate logos based on LogoOrange equitable prognosis, which I think is very appropriate. However these are just prognosis and suggestions, where to go and inspire You to new designs, we’ll see however where those logo trends will l... Best of the Web - February 2009
PSDTUTS – February is known for its lack of days when we have a leap year but there is no lack in great Photoshop material! This month we have tutorials on creating a breathtaking fantasy scene, an amazing set of icons and wallpapers, and the usual inspirational articles. So lets get into it! Tutorial Wrap ... 7 Fresh and Simple Ways to Test Cross-Browser Compatibility
Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers – This post is written for designers, developers, or anyone else who has struggled with testing their websites across multiple browsers. As little as one year ago, there were almost no good options for testing cross-browser compatibility of websites. The tools out there usually had significant drawback... 7 Interface Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces
Webdesigner Depot – What is simplicity? Simplicity is the quality of being natural, plain and easy to understand. It is not surprising then that simplicity is often thrived for in user interface design. Most people naturally dislike complexity in devices and software. Yes, some people find joy in figuring out how some... Test your information architecture with Treejack
ux digest – We put a lot of emphasis on optimizing usability, user interactions and user interfaces. One area of the user experience that we often overlook testing on is information architecture. This is likely due to an absence of methods to test the effectiveness of information architecture. Sam Ng of Optimal... 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts
Smashing Magazine – Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you d... Beautiful and inspiring Designers Quotes
DesignWorkPlan – Recently I came accross various websites filled with quotes from designers & artists from around the world, insiprational quotes to get you thinking. In this article I have selected various top design quotes that apply to my experience and gives me power to be creative and think foward. I have also a... Free Fonts Of The Month: Myndraine, Museo Sans
Smashing Magazine – Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you d... Test your Website: A 57-Point Checklist for Maximum Usability
Virtual Hosting Blog – So you’ve got a website, but do you know whether it’s usable or not? The answer to this question can make the difference between a successful site and one that’s just ignored. Go through this checklist to make sure your site is up to snuff. Do you answer your user’s questions? : Users visit a site be... Free Fonts Of The Month: Fertigo Pro, FF Nuvo
Smashing Magazine – Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you d... Inspiration Overload: 100 CSS Galleries You Need to Check Out
Virtual Hosting Blog – Whether you’re suffering from designer’s block, or just want to see what your competition is up to, design galleries are an excellent tool. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of them available, and we’ve found 100 of the best. Searchable If you’re looking for a specific color, style, or genre, check... Design 101 - for programmers
UX Magazine Articles – Programming is an underappreciated art form. It is there, in the background, invisible to but a few people who usually are looking to fix it, copy it or simply understand it. A successful human interface can make the most complex functionality work at the click of a button which in turn keeps the c... The Layers of Design: the style layer
UX Magazine Articles – Designing for the Web, as I see it, is a multi-layered process. It’s a process in which each layer addresses specific design needs related to client aims, brand characteristics and site user habits and expectations. Sadly, the last of these layers to be applied in the process, the application of styl...
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