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"A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData, Visualize This is a practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data. The book is published by Wiley and is available on Amazon and other major online booksellers."

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"A good checklist, for any purpose should be judged in four areas: design, content, phraseology, and usage. Christopher L. Parker, writing for AOPA Flight Training Magazine, suggests these considerations for checklists."

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Since I launched the website FireworksLab (a free resource page for Adobe Fireworks files) some weeks ago, I have received various mails from people looking for a reason why they should use Fireworks instead of Photoshop. I have never answered any of these mails due of a lack of time but now I’m going to tell you why I use Fireworks instead of Photoshop for interface design and why you could do too – or why you should continue to use Photoshop. In addition I will show you why most of these “Fireworks vs. Photshop” posts are completely taken out of context and what I think about the Pros and Cons of both Adobe products.

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People tend to judge others on first impressions, which is one of the main reasons why we buy the things we buy. We all want to be judged the way we want to be judged.
I’m sure you do too.
And believe it or not, this is translating very well into our digital lives.
But how exactly?

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Color Oracle is a colorblindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. It takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.

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Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design
helps designers, developers, and managers
create websites, software, hardware, and consumer products that

are accessible to people with disabilities and older users,
provide a better user experience for all users, and
help organizations maximize the benefits of accessibility.

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This Twitter UI Photoshop template is perfect for mocking up Twitter layouts to see how it will look before going live. This template was built closely to Twitter’s current layout as of June 2011.

For any designers needing to create mockups for a Twitter account, this is the perfect Photoshop Psd for that. In the Psd, each of the elements are grouped into their respective areas of the page and are labeled appropriately. You can download this template below. Feel free to share the Psd. I created it for the sole purpose of making Twitter mockups a whole heck of a lot easier, enjoy!


Twitter UI Photoshop Psd (3.6 MB) | Version 1.0 Last updated on June 13, 2011

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CSS is used to define the User Interface of a Website & to separate content from presentation.
CSS is something that is extensively used on almost every site. Lets take some time to ensure that our stylesheets are built with some good standards. The below tips will really help CSS beginners a lot in development.

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This is a chart showing the number of installed seats of the Lotus Notes workgroup software, from the time it was introduced in 1989 through 2000. In fact when Notes 1.0 finally shipped it had been under development for five years. Notice just how dang long it took before Notes was really good enough that people started buying it. Indeed, from the first line of code written in 1984 until the hockey-stick part of the curve where things really started to turn up, about 11 years passed. During this time Ray Ozzie and his crew weren't drinking piña coladas in St Barts. They were writing code.

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This article is about developing WordPress Themes. If you wish to learn more about how to install and use Themes, review Using Themes. This topic differs from Using Themes because it discusses the technical aspects of writing code to build your own Themes rather than how to activate Themes or where to obtain new Themes.

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Today, most of the soap we use is liquid soap, which contains a lot of water. Block soap instead is more concentrated and therefore has some ecological benefits: You don’t transport unnecessary water around. In place of plastic bottles you can simply use paper for packaging. The solid blocks can easily be piled and allow a greater space efficiency in a truck.

But what about the usage of soap bars? I don’t like the weird slippery feeling when I use them. It gives me goose bumps. And under the shower, it always slides out of your fingers. Hand soap also often gets dirty and accumulates bacteria when more than one person is using it.

I designed two dispensers that turn block soap into beautiful little flakes. They offer you a new comfortable sensation when they are falling on your hands and easily dissolve in water.

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“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.”

—Dr. Paul Polak, Inte

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This poster is absolute genius. I wonder what else works well graphed on a periodic table...

<em>Squidspot, a web and print design group, has created a table representing a list of the most “popular, influential and notorious typefaces today”, in a form

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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. If you would like to submit a design element or suggest a new category, please contact me.

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Introducing 80+ ridiculously rad social networking icons, made by deft-fingered Haitian refugees, not really… but really. I’ve developed over 80 refined, amazing social networking icons for the top networks around. They’re all the rage with you crazy news

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This time around, we collaborated with South African artist – Alex Latimer – to create a very unique hand-drawn icon set which is reminiscent of Alex’ signature drawing style. The set comprising of 24 different icons, should cover most of the social netwo

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Grunge style has been popular for a while now, and it doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. So if creating grunge style designs is your thing, then you are in luck. Here are 50 free grunge fonts that should fit almost any of your grungy typograp

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In past articles, we’ve shown you where to find plenty of great textures for vintage and retro style design. So now if you’re wanting to learn some techniques to put those to use, you’re in luck. Here are 30 very useful Photoshop tutorials that will teach

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A few weeks ago, I showed you some of the best fonts for use in grunge style design. Creating grungy designs can be fun, but sometimes a site requires a cleaner approach, one where artsy design elements take a back seat to clear presentation of content. T

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