Tag: Design
Website pagination: Stories should load into a single page every time.
Website pagination: Stories should load into a single page every time. – Slate Magazine. I understand this being a major pain point for lots of people, but I’ve got to be honest and say that I rarely feel that pagination is annoying, especially for articles at length. What I find annoying is the design of […]
Posted: October 16, 2012
Tunnel Vision and Selective Attention
Tunnel Vision and Selective Attention (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox). Design is hard. As much of a blanket statement that is, being a good designer is not something that happens overnight and often results in issues outlined in this Nielsen Alertbox. I know that I miss things on sites all the time when reviewing them with clients […]
Posted: September 04, 2012
Learn Code The Hard Way
Learn Code The Hard Way — Books And Courses To Learn To Code. This is a nice, realistic look at the all-too-common situation of ‘entrepreneurs’ with an app idea simply needing to collect a few people to make the next million dollar idea a reality. I completely agree in that it’s essential that the idea […]
Posted: August 19, 2012
The Cost Of A Logo
The Cost Of A Logo | HUH.. Logo design has always been somewhat of an enigma to me. You can’t help but hear the crazy stories behind the various ways logos come to be and I think that simply contributes to their complex simplicity. Ridiculous as that sounds, logo design and development is very often […]
Posted: August 19, 2012
WordPress UI User Testing
Hey everyone, my name is Dave Martin. « Make WordPress UI. Depending on how interested you are with WordPress you may or may not know that the team behind WordPress recently made public a number of blogs that facilitate keeping up with real-time discussions amongst the team as they work on the next version of […]
Posted: July 24, 2012
More about devicePixelRatio
More about devicePixelRatio – QuirksBlog. I’ve touched on the fact that all this Retina stuff is really going to throw a bit of a wrench into what was once not even a blip on the radar for many of us. PPK goes through some beautiful detail surrounding devicePixelRatio that we should all have in mind […]
Posted: July 20, 2012
The Shape of Design
The Shape of Design – A book by Frank Chimero. If you haven’t caught a glimpse of the awesome story that is the life of The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero, I highly encourage you to check out the site. It’s only the tip of the iceberg in displaying just how much effort went […]
Posted: July 19, 2012
The Retina War is upon us.
The Retina War is upon us. by Wells Riley. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. Thinking about how we can’t overlook the impact a Retina computer display will have on our lives. Not only lives of designers and developers, but users as well. This is a big deal. I don’t mean to make […]
Posted: July 17, 2012
Style Tiles: An Alternative to Full Design Comps
Style Tiles: An Alternative to Full Design Comps | Webdesigntuts+. We don’t talk much about the actual design processes we have in place, at least not in the detail we outline development workflows. Why is that? Are design processes just too personal that they can’t be explained in writing? Without diving too deep, I think […]
Posted: June 07, 2012
Design is like surviving a zombie apocalypse
Design is like surviving a zombie apocalypse | Mark Boulton Design. Design isn’t a process limited to designers, at least not in most cases. In my time as a developer on projects I’ve run the spectrum of personalities to work with. As with everything I go on and on about I’ve concluded that it comes […]
Posted: June 07, 2012