Fre_entity's Favorite Links on webdesign from Diigo

Elements of Design: A Web Design Showcase

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:41:25 -0000

Elements of Design is a different type of web design showcase focusing on specific aspects of web design. It is brought to you by the Smiley Cat Web Design Blog.

Tags: inspiration webdesign design css patterns

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Adactio: Journal—Understanding Web Design

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:43:04 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

sell the sizzle, not the sausage.

Tags: design webdesign user centered design

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HoHoHo! : Design : Brand Spanking New

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:08:47 -0000

Tags: icons icon webdesign design resources

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101 Awesome Portfolio Sites | DesignM.ag

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:51:45 -0000

For designers, having a great-looking portfolio site is one of the best ways to attract attention to your services and to quickly prove to potential clients that you are capable of high quality work. If you’re working on building or re-designing your own portfolio, you should definitely find some inspiration from sites featured here (shown in no particular order).

Tags: portfolio example webdesign

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The Lightbox Clones Matrix « planetOzh

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:35:26 -0000

The Lightbox Clones Matrix

This tool lists a number of javascript scripts designed to embed various objects in HTML pages, such as images, flash animations, movies and iframes.
Comparison of various scripts that display images
and other objects in somehow cool CSS popups

Tags: javascript lightbox css web webdesign

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Learning from "bad" UI - (37signals)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:35:40 -0000

When Gruber first linked the TripLog/1040 UI by Stevens Creek, I wasn’t kind either. Bright colors, controls seemingly placed at random. It was the opposite of what designers strive for in our circles. A mess. Soon the Flickr page was a schoolyard of insults. And then something interesting happened. TripLog’s designer Steve Patt posted a comment amidst the bile to share the rationale behind his design. The many who chose not to listen to him won’t learn anything, but the rest of us may find fruit in Mr. Patt’s thoughtful explanation and twenty years of software experience.

Tags: user interface webdesign UI interaction design user experience

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Login Forms Design Showcase | Elements of Design

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:45:10 -0000

After putting together a registration form design showcase, the logical next step was to do the same for login forms.

Tags: showcase webdesign form login examples

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Ornate, Floral, Swirly and Curly Vector Roundup | Blog.SpoonGraphics

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:57:00 -0000

The use of flourishes in design has been a popular trend for a while now, but is still going strong with intricate patterns and smooth flowing vines and leaves creeping into designs for both web and print. Here is a roundup of free ornamental, floral, swirly and curly graphics from across the web.

Tags: vector illustrator graphics ornaments webdesign

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Sender 11: The anatomy of a text input field

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:55:36 -0000

There are two interface interface elements of typical mobile user interfaces that does the heavy lifting. That is the Text Input Field and the List. I thought I'd share with you some of the usability considerations that is going into Text Input Fields at mBricks.

The keypad is well suited to number entry, but ill suited to text entry. Entering text on a mobile phone is hard, and people tend to avoid it if they can. The less text input you have, the better. But you can't avoid it all together.

Text input fields are suitable for plain text, numbers and passwords. For entering specific data types like date, time, number ranges etc. you should not use a text input field. Instead use Multi-field Input or a selection widget like a Calendar.

Tags: user interface usability form mobile mobile devices

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Photoshop Brushes: 150+ High Quality Free Photoshop Brushes

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:59:05 -0000

GetBrushes.com is free Adobe Photoshop brushes directory, featuring handpicked collection of the best brushes for Photoshop on the net, all free to download and use.
Here you’ll find PS brushes for every style and taste, ranging from always popular decay & grunge brushes, over abstract and tech, to gothic, coffee spills, hair, or fractal inspired brushes for photoshop. Have a look around.. and, well, have fun :)

Tags: photoshop brushes resources design webdesign

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Photoshop Brushes - Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy!

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:58:08 -0000

Welcome to Brusheezy.com! A place for artists to download and vote for the best custom Photoshop Brushes and photoshop patterns on the internet! This site is updated every day with new Brushes for Photoshop so check back often and Submit your own! We only accept the best photoshop brushes so be sure to read the terms of use for the official rules before submitting your Photoshop Brushes and photoshop patterns. Add to Technorati Favorites

Tags: photoshop brushes design resources graphics

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Design Bump - popular design links

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:54:39 -0000

Design for the masses. Design Bump is a social media site dedicated to the design industry.

Tags: design webdesign resource inspiration

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Usability.gov

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:09:51 -0000

Your guide for developing usable and useful Web sites

Tags: webdesign design reference accessibility government

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5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web | How-To | Smashing Magazine

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:09:52 -0000

here are many ways to approach Web typography in order to create effective and expressive results. Let’s take a closer look at some principles, rules and ideas for approaching Web typography decisions — you can use them as a starting point for learning how to achieve effective type setting on the Web.

Tags: typography design webdesign fonts web

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Five Things We Learned Building our iPhone Site | MindBites the Blog

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:09:57 -0000

With our shiny new iPhone site ready for public consumption, we thought we’d share some things we learned while building it.

Tags: iphone mobile web webdesign css html

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How to Code HTML Email Newsletters [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:33:00 -0000

HTML email newsletters have come a long way in the five years since this article was first published. HTML email is still a very successful communications medium for both publishers and readers. Publishers can track rates for email opens, forwards, and clickthroughs, and thereby can measure reader interest in products and topics; readers are presented with information that's laid out like a web page, in a way that's more visually appealing, and much easier to scan and navigate, than plain text email.

Tags: css email html template xhtml

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Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:01:46 -0000

Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics:

* Ad Units
* Calendars
* Carousels
* Charts and Tables
* UI Controls
* Form Elements

* Grids
* Menus and Buttons
* Mobile - General
* Mobile - iPhone
* Navigation and Pagination
* OS Elements

* Placeholder Text
* Screen Resolutions
* Tabs
* Windows and Containers

Tags: examples stencels wireframe yahoo webdesign

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Icons Design Showcase | Elements of Design

Mon, 26 May 2008 21:16:21 -0000

Very nice collection of screenshots about all different kinds of design patterns.

Tags: showcase design patterns inspiration webdesign blog

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LogoPond - Identity Inspiration -

Sat, 17 May 2008 13:41:27 -0000

very big collection of logos

Tags: logo logos webdesign identity inspiration

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» 8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should - Web Design Marketing Podcast & Blog

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:39:17 -0000

CSS has brought us many capabilities in terms of typography and the web, but we always seem to be limited to the same 4-5 typefaces over and over again. There is an inherant problem, if the font you specify isn’t on the viewers computer it won’t render in that font. So as designers and developers we end up selecting the ones that we can safely assume is available on most computers today. So most pages use Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia as their typefaces… and the world of the web remains slightly more bland.

Tags: arial black arial narrow century gothic css fonts

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