TAG: design
"Sorapot is a simple modern teapot designed to brew heat-sensitive green and white teas."
"creating favicons has never been easier"
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"So to make things easier for you, here I present my top 50 graphic design blogs. I’ve categorised these blogs by their Google PageRank (PR), which is Google’s way of determining the authority of a website / blog."
"Every year, hundreds of nonprofit organizations rely on the Taproot Foundation's award winning Service Grant program to provide millions of dollars worth of pro bono marketing, HR and IT consulting services."
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"experiments with hand lettering...a ongoing series based on spam subject lines in my mailbox"
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"To accelerate your learning, we've come up with a list of a few light-hearted recommendations around building good social applications."
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"Even though points on Consumating were redeemable for absolutely nothing, not even a gold star, our members had an unquenchable desire for them."
Tags: community design games reputation socialnetworking culture psychology
Great infographic from the New York Times breaking down this summer's McCarren Pool concerts.
Tags: visualization design nytimes nyc
"This site converts bitmap images to vector art - it's an online auto-tracer."
Tags: vector illustrator webtools design
"I am pleased to agree that this redesign feels like a great step forward for BusinessWeek, and I'm almost certain that, when the next redesign happens, I will remember what it's previous incarnation felt and looked like."
Tags: magazines design inspiration
"This is my very basic set of shapes for making wireframes (low-fidelity web page schematics) in OmniGraffle (Mac OS X)."
Tags: design ui architecture templates
Very cool last.fm visualizations.
Tags: music visualization design data mashup
Enabling Innovation Through Office Design
"Work has become more mobile and team-based, but most organizations have been slow in changing their workplaces to reflect the new reality"
Tags: business design innovation
My walking experience with the AIGA NY ALPHABET/CITY: A WALKING TOUR WITH TOBIAS FRERE-JONES
"Where do you begin when you’re one of only twenty three people that gets to walk around New York with Tobias Frere-Jones hearing about his observations on type and how it influenced the great typeface Gotham?"
Tags: nyc typography design
The evolution of buttons on Yahoo!, Adobe and Apple
Tags: design trend internet icons
About jobs and networking. Includes the story of how my friend Michael Surtees ended up in New York City (which just happens to be because of me).
Tags: networking jobs business design
New website.
Tags: design inspiration typography
"Discover new people on your Twitter block by navigating through this animated three dimensional visualization of who follows whom."
Tags: twitter visualization design
"In a way this bundle that constitutes mainstream music begins to establish a model that could be the future of recorded music  that the recordings are the “loss leaders� for everything else."
Tags: music design packaging business culture
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings
"We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real. Users almost never look at anything that looks like an advertisement, whether or not it's actually an ad."
Tags: advertising marketing internet design usability research
The Good, the Bad, and the Odd in Curbside Culture
"In this new, occasional department, we ask design professionals to tell us what they see when they traverse the city. What tricks are advertisers using? Is pink the new orange?"
"Paula's is filled with 14 whimsical fonts she drew while on an airplane and sitting by the sea in Jamaica."
Tags: notebooks design typography inspiration
"The foundational YUI Reset CSS file removes and neutralizes the inconsistent default styling of HTML elements, creating a level playing field across A-grade browsers and providing a sound foundation upon which you can explicitly declare your intentions."
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How a graphic designer and a typographer and their obsession with fonts and legibility led to a painstaking effort to clean up America’s road signs, one letter at a time.
Tags: design typography cars betterness transportation
Little snips of good design.
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Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
"Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools."
Tags: visualization design
How Apple's small things influence their big things
"It’s cool how Apple’s design language keeps evolving. One product design follows another. There’s a continuity this way, yet things continue to feel new. And it’s interesting how their small designs influence their large designs."
Rethinking the fold in a webpage.
"LiveSurface images are high-resolution, print-quality photos with pre-built layer masks, surface data (Vanishing Point planes) and image components (such as shadows) on individual layers."
A two-minute animated introduction to typography
"A two-minute animated introduction to typography created by Vancouver Film School students Ryan Uhrich and Marcos Ceravolo."
Tags: typography video design animation
brian eno and music for airports- the inspiration
"Brian Eno talks about what inspired him to create Music for Airports, the album that gave birth to the ambient movement"
Tags: airports music design inspiration
Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs
"That's the power of "ambient information," which tries to combat data overload by moving information off computer screens and into the world around us."
Tags: design feedbackloops gadgets green visualization
iPhone Reality/Sanity Check -- my iWish list
"In conclusion, I think the iPhone is the great-great-grand-father of the future of personal media devices."
IPHONE. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS.
Jeff Staple points out 18 flaws with the iPhone.
Feltron.com Personal Annual Report 2005
One man's chronicle.
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As grouped by their dominant design elements.
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"To my mind Graphis Diagrams has to be one of the seminal publications on diagrams. Less acedemic than Tufte, this book showcases a wealth of styles from the crazy to the intensely Swiss. Here are some of my favourite parts."
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Lots and lots of nicely designed business cards.
Tags: businesscards design gallery inspiration
Apple's iPhone and Social Proof
"When we see so many people going out of their way to do something that we may have been wondering about, it surely makes us more likely to do it ourselves."
Tags: design psychology
Le Monde Diplomatique Redesign
By Spiekermann: "Le Monde Diplomatique appears worldwide in 20 languages and 30 countries and has more than 1.5 million readers."
Tags: newspapers design inspiration
"This is a confident design. Coca-cola is acknowledging that we all know the product, so just drink it. They've given similar treatment to the majority of the Coke line, including Diet and Zero. Simple, back to basics, pure equity."
Tags: design packaging coke branding simplicity
Beautiful posters by Niklaus Troxler.
Tags: design inspiration
"Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity."
Tags: art design visualization internet programming
"The future is here and it's not an iPhone . . . it's a big ass table."
Tags: funny video microsoft design
"The details are not details. They make the product." - Charles Eames
10 Things We Can Learn From Apple
"Here are ten reasons why I think Apple is so successful today, and what we can learn from them"
Tags: apple design bestarticlesof2007 innovation marketing
"Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag Click on an image to reveal the flag"
Tags: flags colors design visualization
A giant list of companies and the typeface they use.
Tags: fonts typography design reference
"Re-created Safari's browser chrome in Illustrator."
Tags: browser design illustrator vector
"Here is a collection of cool business cards to inspire you. Most of them are from the Business Cards flickr pool, some of them from Ads of the World."
Tags: businesscards design
"Vecteezy is an index of Free Vectors available for download by some of the best designers around the world."
Tags: illustrator design free gallery vector
Human Joysticks (NewsBreaker Live interactive cinema game)
"The debut of interactive crowd gaming in movie theaters. Captured opening weekend of Spider Man 3 in Los Angeles. Created by SS+K in collaboration with Brand Experience Lab for msnbc.com."
Tags: video design marketing games movies advertising
"The aerodynamic SENZ umbrella claims to resists storms up to wind force 10!"
Tags: design
"In one setting Bell can fill halls with people who gladly pay hundreds of dollars to see him and stifle their coughs in reverence to his craft. In another, more than 1000 people pass him by without even the slightest acknowledgment."
"Read over 4200 brutally honest independent reviews of selected shops and assorted establishments in over 150 superfuture cities."
Tags: city culture design reviews travel shopping
Very cool web clock.
Tags: design visualization cool
All about the recently redesign US passport, which "comes with 13 inspirational quotes, including six from United States presidents and one from a Mohawk Thanksgiving speech."
Tags: design politics travel strange
Who says we need our logo on every slide?
"Most companies with a PowerPoint template certainly insist that their employees use the company logo on every slide. But is this good advice? Slide real estate is limited as it is, why clutter it with logos and trademarks, footers, and so on?"
Tags: presentation design powerpoint
It's the Conversation Economy, Stupid
As consumer markets fragment, marketers and designers must understand how platforms evolve and influence human behavior
Tags: conversation communication marketing design
Helpful distortion at NYC & London subway maps
"Subway map readers want to know how to get from A to B a lot more than they want to know the exact curve of the tracks along the way. Sometimes truth is less important than knowledge."
Tags: design usability subway maps
Redesigned nyc subway maps.
Inside the interactive mind - or something resembling a mind
Strawberry Frog's process for making websites.
Tags: marketing advertising design internet funny
How Aggregate Displays Change User Behavior
"A fascinating study demonstrates how simply displaying aggregate data like Top 10 lists heavily influences the way people make decisions on social web sites."
Tags: aggregation design socialsoftware web2.0 interface
Rain Storms in New York City Trigger Visible Feedback Loops
"Our culture so values factory-freshness that the moment of box-opening is the only stage of a product’s life that’s usually designed. The rest is left to fate."
"I'm doing a thing for w+k on Thursday, as part of their 25th anniversary do. It's a petcha-kucha-style thing. 25 slides. 25 seconds each. I was going to write it in powerpoint, but then I thought I'd try and write it in flickr instead. See how that worke
Tags: marketing flickr presentation design
Forrester Sees Web Design Boom
"Forrester said the Internet's central role as an information resource has made Web projects key strategic priorities at many companies, leading to a revenue growth rate of at least 20 percent at most shops working in that space."
Tags: internet advertising design marketing
"Muji's US target will be an active group of Americans who seek alternatives to showy brand consumerism; those who are looking to pursue higher goals in their consumption habits, but importantly, want to show and share those goals to others."
Tags: business shopping japan design nyc
No one belongs here more than you
A strangely brilliant idea for a website.
Tags: books inspiration fun design
Separated by a common language
"Take the problem of left handed people being unable to use a pair of scissors, advertising people would approach this by telling left handed people how to use the existing scissors better whereas design people would create a new pair of scissors."
Tags: marketing design advertising creativity
"The "long table" is a physical manifestation of networked culture. Information is less driven by hierarchy and process and more driven through connections, collaboration, transparency and as Noah aptly put it in his blog, moments of serrendipity."
Tags: design ideas marketing business
"Great design drives profits. We know that. But we can't prove it--yet."
Tags: business design marketing roi
Some amazing paper cutouts.
Tags: design art fun templates
New at Pentagram: TIME Magazine
"Today, TIME launches the first issue of a major redesign developed by Pentagram’s Luke Hayman with TIME managing editor Richard Stengel and art director Arthur Hochstein."
Tags: design magazines typography
Kill the stress: Knit . . . a great ad.
Tags: advertising design knitting
"The "What does Marsellus Wallace Look Like" scene in Pulp Fiction portrayed using nothing but typography. By Jarratt Moody."
Tags: movies typography design bestarticlesof2007
"Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre'. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe
Tags: culture powerpoint data design philosophy visualization
"The way to inspire a designer is to give them the message and feeling you want to convey, and the freedom to convey it in a fresh, new way."
A book by the agency LOVE used to help them pitch themselves. Looks like a children's book complete with textures to touch. Beautiful.
Jay-Z to help relaunch Cherry Coke
"Jay-Z is set to help relaunch Cherry Coke. The rapper's Rocawear firm will design the new can, and the product's TV commercials."
Tags: branding marketing design trend music
"Experience exists only in the minds of your customers. When a person engages with your products, services, and environments, a set of distinct human qualities comes into play:"
Paradox of the active user (aka "I don't *want* to RTFM")
"The “paradox of the active user� is a paradox because users would save time in the long term by taking some initial time to optimize the system and learn more about it. But that’s not how people behave in the real world . . . "
Tags: design interface usability
"People have been calling them “guerilla farms� or “green graffiti,� I guess because it is done without permission. But I believe it is a victimless crime, if a crime at all."
Tags: japan city design green food
"The results are listed below - the most beautiful fonts, created by the open-source community and free for personal, academic and (sometimes) commercial use."
How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote
Should he really have announced six months before release?
Tags: apple technology mobile design presentation business
Clay talks about elegance, one of my favorite themes of the moment.
Tags: elegance branding marketing design
"Droog is a brand and a mentality: design of products that do what they should and think about why they’re doing it in the first place: function? fun? wit? criticism? All of the above?"
Tags: design marketing inspiration ideas dutch
Transportation Textile Patterns
More rugs from trains and subways than you could ever imagine.
Tags: photography transportation design
The world's strongest, most beautiful umbrellas.
"The two big user interface questions I have about the iPhone are how useful it will be if you can't pay full attention to the screen, and whether it will favor power users once they've gotten the hang of it."
Apple's New Calling: The iPhone
Time has a good breakdown of the iPhone.
Tags: apple design mobile technology innovation
2006 Advertising/Design Goodness Year in Review
"Thanks to all of you for making the year 2006 of Advertisng/Design Goodness such a sucess. Let’s have a look at what I think is the best of the year."
Tags: marketing advertising design bestof2006
Lots of info on the hazards of packaging . . .
Is Design the New Management Consultancy? Not Exactly
"Some folks are asking this question. I’ve spent the past two years making the transition from designer to business consultant, jumping a lot of hurdles along the way. Here’s a little of what I learned"
Tags: design business consulting strategy management
As compiled by Communication Arts.
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A collection of North American front pages from the day after Saddam's death.
Tags: design newspapers politics iraq
Why your bosses want to turn your new office into Greenwich Village.
Tags: architecture business management city collaboration culture design innovation productivity
Michael Bierut explains the new Saks' identity by Pentagram
Tags: design branding packaging shopping typography logos
"In an age of microscopic technologies and sweeping Google-earth panoramas, Will Wright, the world's most successful video-game inventor, has set out to create game (or is it the art form?) that will teach us how to really see."
Tags: videogames education thinking creativity design technology
"So I made the above PSD for myself back when I was working at Facebook, it was an easy way to just grab a tint I wanted whenever I needed it (since Facebook is only based off of 2-3 colors anyway)."
Tags: photoshop design colors tools
"How do you do it? By honoring your community, making reasonable and transparent rules, getting experts to help you, and encouraging positive, thoughtful behavior from your site's members."
Tags: community google design business socialsoftware
tagging vs. cataloging: what it's all about
"So, tagging has brought metadata to the masses, thanks to both its ease of use as well as its clear value."
Tags: tags ia metadata design usability
Why can't design be like this?
"I don’t know any members of the AIGA and I’m starting to wonder if it’s a design culture where people just want to stay in their own bubble."
Tags: likemind community design
"Great design on the web that I'm archiving here for inspiration and recognition."
Tags: design inspiration photography gallery
Cool color theme online application from Adobe.
One of the nicest Flash designs I've seen in a long time.
Tags: design inspiration portfolio
Air Traffic as Seen by the FAA
"The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne."
Tags: video airports travel emergence maps design visualization
Would You Like Me To Seduce You?
"[These products] are being differentiated by the difference they make in our lives and the attitudinal difference it creates in the passionate zealots that participate in these new consumer cults."
Tags: design branding marketing identity consumerism
"This is a pretty funny flash animation created by Clayborn Creative Consulting. It shows you flags from around the world, and comments that clients would say if the flags were presented."
Tags: design flags funny marketing
Messing With Your Brand's Logo Is No Longer A No-Go
"Though MTV has been known to constantly update its logos, branding experts were at a loss to remember the last time a marketer tweaked its logo in an ad."
Tags: branding logos design advertising trend
"interactive design, public installations, 3D software development from Melbourne, Australia"
Tags: design art australia portfolio inspiration
Erik Spiekermann answers "What is the ONE thing you think every student of typography should know?"
Tags: typography design tips
Some great photos of ordinary objects doing unordinary things.
Tags: design creativity books lifehacks
Tools for Making the Crap Great
"Creating tools and formats that give people a say and getting them creatively engaged will be the secret to making the "Direct Economy" a reality."
Tags: creativity technology design
Embed marketing in products: Crispin Porter + Bogusky CEO
"Google and Starbucks both don’t use much traditional media to get their message across, he said. But that’s because their marketing is embedded in the brand."
Tags: business advertising design trend
"With 175,000 being created every day and the blogosphere doubling in size every six months, the standards for a quality weblog have become much higher. Here are 7 ways to optimize yours."
Screening People with Clearances
"We don't have infinite dollars to spend on security. We need to choose where to spend our money, and we're best off if we spend it in ways that give us the most security for our dollar."
Tags: security airports travel design
10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
Photos from ten really cool looking spaces created to inspire creativity.
Tags: creativity design business management architecture furniture productivity
Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities
"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."
Tags: design internet blogs search attention web2.0
10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
"These are the top 10 things I learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month."
Tags: tips internet marketing design startups usability business
"To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse."
"Fandom has become a mechanized process of blogging, programming playlists, shooting and distributing videos, file-sharing, and even remixing tracks. Beck’s sticker cover is just one way that he has acknowledged this shift."
Tags: music remix creativity design cocreation
Accessibility for blind people
An interview with a blind person that covers many accessibility issues, specifically some good tips for web accessibility.
Tags: accessibility design html standards
"So here’s my staple answer on ideal roles, followed by some thoughts on reality."
Tags: design projectmanagement
Learning from the art of comics
Presentation lessons taken from Scott McCloud's The Art of Comics.
Tags: comics communication design presentation
When the packaging makes it perfect
"Great packaging makes shopping more fun, and, as Tiffany has proved, occasionally elicits cash from impressionable people like me."
Tags: design branding packaging marketing fashion
Why is it so hard to grasp scrolling?
"The Internet was founded as, and should remain a system on which people agree to agree for the sake of a better good, not simply wrap the conformance with substrates that enable a more “free� form of expression."
Tags: design flash internet browser
1000 Words of Advice for Design Teachers
Good advice for teaching design and just about anything else.
Tags: design education teaching creativity
An in-depth look at the man behind Apple's design magic.
Tags: design apple process business
"What would happen, I wonder, if I actually told the truth about what happens in a design process?"
Tags: creativity culture design process management productivity business bestarticlesof2006
Top 10 Best Presentations Ever
Good list of expected and unexpected great presentations.
Tags: presentation powerpoint design video
The Process of Defining the Problem
"Had we not gone through the process of better defining the problem, one of the two original options may have been utilized and probably failed to meet the company’s goals."
Tags: process design usability business
7 things I learned at wieden and kennedy (portland edition)
Russell Davies reflects on the advertising industry.
Tags: advertising business branding design management planning tips
"Come Out & Play is a festival dedicated to street games. It is three days of play, talks, and celebration, all focused on new types of games and play."
Tags: conference design fun games cool nyc
"So what’s changed in the last several years that gave designers a seat at the boardroom table and why do we have technology and information overload to thank for it?"
Tags: design business strategy trend
Bus Ticket Origami from REZ in Liverpool
"i know that at least personally people tend to fold, fiddle or tear their tickets . . . so i started folding, designing and then placing origami instruction stickers on the back of seats all around the liverpool area."
"This week, FontShop takes a trip to the supermarket in search of palatable packaging. Among the shelves cluttered with superfluous drop shadows and chaotic typography, it was easy to spot the few beautiful boxes."
Tags: typography font packaging design free
The official SVA site for the pill bottle that target purchased.
On the design of American State flags...
A look at a few of the best and worst designed state flags.
Tags: flags design history politics
Dangerous Beauty: The Art of the Shiv
A beautiful collection of shivs.
Tags: art culture death prison design hacks
A Conversation with Steven Johnson, Part 2
"In part two of Jesse James Garrett’s interview with author Steven Johnson, we look at cultural attitudes and innovation in interface design."
Tags: culture interface design technology books ui
"Authoritatively declaring your mastery of rounded corners, drop shadows, gradients, glows, friendly fonts and The Web2.0 Filter, this card promises to establish your dominance and subdue even the hardiest filter-hater."
LG taps into the power of blogs
"LG appears to have enlisted the power of bloggers to help promote its new Chocolate phone. "
Tags: design mobile technology marketing blogs
Promotion from LG about their new "Chocolate" phone. They are incredibly open about wanting to recruit bloggers to talk about the product. Cool stuff. (If anyone there happens to read this, I'd be happy to help.)
Tags: design mobile technology blogs marketing
Does process matter? Does outcome matter? Do neither matter at all?
Tags: design process creativity art
"Everything eventually comes down to design. If something fails, it is the designer's responsibility."
With the accessibility of new technology, it's all about the content.
Tags: art photography design culture technology media
Making It or Breaking It with Customer Service
"So innovative customer service these days isn’t as much about innovation as it is about core values. Getting back to basics. Sweating the details."
Tags: innovation customerservice design business
Ruthless Focus on the Customer
From the Mini Cooper to Whole Foods, companies and brands are discovering how superior customer experience keeps 'em coming back for more
Tags: design business branding marketing trend
"Users aren't stupid, they're efficient. They're spending the least amount of effort (i.e. intelligence) as they possible can on each step of the goal they're trying to achieve. If you make them spend more, they'll go somewhere else . . ."
Tags: design ia intelligence quotes usability
"If your framework doesn’t explicitly account for culture and context, then it is unlikely that you will be attuned to these things when you do your research and design."
Tags: design marketing strategy process culture
Paul Rand's Logos, Flags, Escutcheons
"The effectiveness of a good logo depends on: a. distinctiveness - b. visibility - c. useability - d. memorability - e. universality - f. durability - g. timelessness"
"Because our modern world has made designers of us all (ready or not), Before & After is dedicated to making graphic design understandable, useful and even fun for everyone. "
How to live happily with a great designer
13 rules including this one: "You don't know a lot about accounting so you don't backseat drive your accountant. You hired a great designer, please don't backseat drive here, either."
Tags: design business management
Seven things graphic designers must be cognizant of.
"Over time as consumer created media engulfs the other kind, it's possible that completely new norms develop around the notions of talent and artistic ability."
Tags: design history myspace cgm video
"Every pixel in the illustration represents one person alive on Earth. The first one is you. The rest are everyone else."
Tags: visualization design statistics
"To follow-up on one of the recurring discussions at this year’s Art of Yahoo! conference, I’ve compiled several of my thoughts on effective design reviews with product stakeholders (clients, business units, etc.)."
Tags: design business process tips
At the New JetBlue Terminal, Passengers May Pirouette to Gate 3
"The architect David Rockwell and the choreographer Jerry Mitchell collaborate to streamline the airport experience."
Tags: dance architecture design nyc airports
The dance of people in public spaces
"Looking for a new angle on movement vs. environment, Rockwell [hired to design the “interior experience� . . . of the new JetBlue terminal . . . at JFK Airport] took a strange turn: He hired choreographer Jerry Mitchell to help him."
Tags: design architecture inspiration nyc airports dance
Creating & Maintaining a Web Style Guide
"This article describes how to create and maintain a web style guide to better manage your organization’s web presence."
Tags: styleguide design branding tips
"We've seen dancing hamsters, Animated GIFs, the blink tag and Netscape Navigator all come and go - but what about the more recent trends?"
"Design Matters" with Debbie Millman Content Library
Download old shows with some of the most interesting designers on the planet.
Tags: design mp3 interviews radio
"You only get one chance to make a first impression; why have it be "junk"? Once that's associated with your name or project, it's tough to scrape off." The other side of the "release early, release often" coin.
Tags: design development opensource
"The message reflects one of W+K founder Dan Wieden's sayings, "You're only good to me after you've made three tremendous mistakes." (See also our 'Embrace failure' sign.) Hence, the 12's advice to everyone at W+K : Fail Harder."
Tags: art design advertising management
On the Fimoculous redesign: "Although it might look like I've merely thrown a bunch of widgets on the page, it's actually intended to signal a notion that I've lately been bouncing off people: the future of blogging is self-aggregation."
Tags: blogs design aggregation attention
Design and the World Cup: what can we learn?
A critique of the 2006 World Cup design.
Tags: logos design branding soccer
"The new structure that appears through the broken shelves gives space to differently sized books. One element provides a place to sit and read inside the shelves."
Shock of the Neue: Graffiti Fonts By Graffiti Writers
"The fledgling type foundry is working with regional writers from the United States to create digital typefaces that take their inspiration from graffiti in their expressiveness, yet are regulated for evenness in typographic settings."
Tags: graffiti typography fonts design
"A profession, problem-solving methodolgy and communication."
Tags: design
Recent Rebrandings 13: All FutureBrand
I really like the International Rescue Committee and the Yuerba Buena logos. MasterCard I'm not so fond of.
Tags: logos branding design inspiration
What is good PowerPoint design?
"Without a good knowledge of the place and circumstance, and the content and context of a presentation, it is impossible to say this is "appropriate" and that is "inappropriate.""
Tags: design presentation powerpoint simplicity
Creativity is a discipline of learning
"Most recently I have found myself asking if this vocation can move further, and lead us to create good in our world and communities. Can we do things beyond helping companies communicate?"
Tags: creativity design communication marketing
A look at 'prosumerism' (aka co-creation aka brand democratization) and its effects on design.
Motorola Q: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
"For a product to feel harmonious the user, the system that surrounds it must be harmonious. No product is outside of a system, though not all products are systems."
Top Designer Says World Cup Design "Just Embarrassing"
Erik Spiekermann, one of Germany's most respected designers, has been openly critical of the design concept for the 2006 World Cup, from the mascot to the logo. He told DW-WORLD.DE why it hasn't been successful.
Tags: soccer logos design germany interviews
Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future
Tags: design culture environment scifi technology
Design. Architecture. Football.
"And it's this tension which is reminiscent of adaptive design ideas discussed here previously; that design isn't the end of the process, but the beginning; that interpretation and improvisation will define the end-product, not the original design."
Tags: design architecture soccer
"Basically, unconscious design is design where there is no “conversation with the situation�. Sometimes we make design decisions based out of habit; we are simply following the norm; or we just never asked ourselves “Why?�."
How Public Prediction Markets Simplify Concepts about Buying and Selling Events and Ideas
Tags: design ia economics gambling markets wisdomofcrowds socialsoftware
A look at postal service design from around the world.
Tags: design
After stormy discussion CSSBloom team has chosen the best 20 blog designs.
Tags: design blogs lists bestof inspiration
Where Visual Design Meets Usability
An Interview with Luke Wroblewski, Part 1
Tags: design usability interviews
A "menu engineer" based in Palm Springs, Calif., Rapp works with restaurants across the country and around the world to transform innocent lists of meals into profitable, user-friendly sales tools.
The Mysterious Power of Context
"A good logo, according to Paul Rand, provides the 'pleasure of recognition and the promise of meaning.'"
50 ways to become a better designer
The way you work can have a huge impact on your creative success. We present the best advice from leading designers on every stage of the creative process, so that you can keep clients satisfied and make the most of your talents
Tags: design tips photoshop illustrator lists creativity
"Like it or not, fair or not, correct or not… All first impressions matter. You make them about everything and so do your clients and prospects."
Tags: design business marketing
Wheelchairs given design makeover
A designer who has spent most of his career working on parts for Formula One cars has come up with a new, off-road wheelchair.
Tags: design innovation health
A Grand Old Flag And Very Modern Art
"Plenty of rigorous abstraction from the 1960s shares the hard edges, asymmetries, unusual proportions and unlikely color combinations of the American flag."
"In this article PingMag introduces a cross-section of all sorts of balls: from the official FIFA final ball, to designer balls, DIY balls, soccer ball graphics, football food and the matching bra."
"In a consumer driven world, money will flow from advertising to service and product development as companies invest in what enables them to deliver a truly exceptional experience."
Architecture and interaction design, via adaptation and hackability
Dan Hill talks about hackability and architecture.
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The evolution of the NetFlix envelope
A look at the changes the NetFlix envelope has gone through in seven years.
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No Instruction Necessary: part 1
Andy Rutledge on affordance: "A common object with an obvious affordance is a glove. When you look at a glove, there appears to be one, and only one way to “use� it."
Tags: design education usability
Interaction Design Summer Reading List
Nine reading recommendations from the Adaptive Path blog.
What Makes a Good Creative Director?
"Finding the right mesh of talent and interpersonal skills is a very difficult task, which is why good creative directors have been revered  there are so few people who can be creative and manage creative."
Tags: creativity marketing design management
The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation?
Michael Beirut on "the brave new world of spec work."
Tags: design competition spec ethics innovation magazines
"What Apple and Netflix did, while not simple, was straightforward. The value they created came from innovations that dramatically improved the user's experience. They looked hard at the current experience and focused on designing an ideal one."
Tags: innovation design usability ux
A realization of what life is like from the client's point-of-view.
Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches
"What to watch out for when picking photos for your marketing materials"
Tags: funny design photography stock marketing
"But the more projects I do, the more I realise neat black & white answers don't fit any sort of real world, which means I end up talking more about the context, and feeling like I'm disappointing people and being vague."
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Apple teams up with Nike to help people track their running. You put a little thing in your shoe and connect another to your iPod and it tracks distance, speed and all that good stuff. When you're done running it downloads automatically.
Tags: apple ipod nike design sports health attention
"This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. "
Tags: design icons communication rfid internet technology
Three great machines and innovation limitation
Scott Berkun writes about the great machines he has owned.
Tags: innovation technology design
"As the barriers to Web publishing continue to diminish, more design-focused publications are springing up online. Here’s a list of what I’ve come across."
We're All Stellar Designers, Now
"Put it this way: if one of the primary tasks of the design press is to seek out interesting work to feature in its editorial pages, then it’s hard to imagine much advertising aimed at designers ever being featured. It’s just not good enough."
Tags: design advertising magazines
A beautiful short multimedia film based on William Blake's "The Tiger"
Tags: poetry art design video animation
The Printer's Devil's Dictionary
Definitions of design terms. My favorite: "Over-analyze, v. 1. To perform even the most cursory critical study of a design artifact. 2. To analyze."
"Approach every job like an amateur. Be stupid. Ask a lot of questions."
Tags: branding marketing design
The PingMag Standards Wish-list
Five things that need to be standardized across the world.
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The homepage of Natalie Jeremijenko.
Tags: design culture education
"How Stuff Is Made (HSIM) is a visual encyclopedia that documents the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products."
Tags: design consumerism history
Laura Fields and the Page Three Sutra
Looking at the convergence of advertising and news on Page Three of the New York Times.
Tags: design advertising culture nytimes
"A showcase of headline typographic design from across the web."
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A gallery of blog comment designs.
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"I will yell it from the rooftops, design is communication! Which means: design is writing, design is organization, design is usability, and on and on. Design encompasses much more than you think."
Tags: design communication
Five Most Important Considerations
An answer to the question, "what are the five most important considerations when planning a web site?"
Hiring the Right Design Manager
"A short list of must-haves that I would recommend looking for when hiring someone to manage a group of designers, specifically in an in-house design group."
Tags: design management
Redesign Notes 1: Width-based layout
How to create a layout that changes depending on the size of the user's browser.
Tags: design javascript howto
"Author and design critic Rick Poynor takes a hard look at his own profession and finds that, despite living in an age when everyone's a critic, real criticism is almost impossible to find."
Tags: criticism design culture art
The personal website of Bill Keagy of xBlog fame.
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"Iconographer is a fully-featured icon editor. It allows you to both change the icons of items and to edit the icon resources used by various programs."
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Character is the new dominant trend in design
"And character is what we want from design right now. In our spoilt, saturated consumer culture, we have become bored by the sleek, over-styled interiors we see in television makeover programmes and car commercials."
Tags: design furniture culture personalization
"A graphical look at what we've done and where we're going"
Tags: environment science visualization inspiration design
"What's an engineer's worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed---and hurricane season is approaching."
Tags: engineering design ethics management risk architecture nyc
"The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats."
The International Symbol for Man Tells All
A conversation with the symbol that represents man on bathrooms across the country and numerous other signs.
Tags: funny design interviews
Ill-structured process, clear outcome
"I wonder if we couldn't extend that value of learning slightly if we didn't equate it so strongly with structure. I think we can achieve intended outcomes, even if the learning isn't structured or sequenced in a particular manner."
Tags: education learning videogames design
On the cooption of language.
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"There was a time when presents were mailed in November with the challenging admonition: Do not open until Christmas. That tradition has given way to a new challenge: anyone receiving a package in November has to attack it immediately to get it open by Ch
Tags: design packaging usability
"Our community provides a virtual banquet of learning opportunities for Web development, but if you’re looking for actual design information you’ll need to tighten your belt. The fare is paltry."
"This is a list of the most groundbreaking, cutting edge blogs out there. You see these blogs and cry, because they’re creatures of fierce untameable beauty."
Tags: blogs design inspiration
Lindon Leader, he of FedEx logo design fame and fortunre.
Tags: logos design branding interviews
"The results of the international contest of logos, trademarks and corporate identity Identity: Best of The Best 2006"
Tags: logos branding design inspiration
attentionomics testing and urban spam
On bar postcards: "They sit, modestly at the edge of our attention-field and they'll only 'succeed' if they're sufficiently engaging, interesting or useful for us to want to march over and look at them, read them or ideally, use them."
Tags: media advertising attention marketing design
"Clearly, even the design of something as deceivingly simple as a urinal can have a myriad of issues to consider and design around."
Tags: design usability bathrooms
Is it PowerPoint that's bad or is it the way people's presentations?
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Epicenter software design: Building features from the inside out
"So, if you’re wondering where to start on a new feature or a new product, discover the epicenter. What’s the one thing it needs first before it needs anything else?"
Tags: design development process ui usability
When Design is a Matter of Life or Death
How do you address a problem you created?
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Some beautiful poster design from Japan.
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"But what if … what if we had a graphic vocabulary that actually meant something? What if it were a hard fact that, say, an open swoosh = transition, and a closed swoosh (halo) = transition completed."
Tags: design branding history language
Thank You For Smoking opening main titles
Very nicely designed opening title sequence for the movie Thank You For Smoking.
Tags: movies design typography history cigarettes
Chernobyl. Causes and consequences.
A great print ad for a special National Geographic issue on Chernobyl.
Tags: design magazines advertising russia
Explaining the differences between Times Roman and Times New Roman, in case you were interested.
Tags: typography font history design
New York Times editor briefly explains their web redesign.
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The role of aesthetics in design
"So simply put, ugly!=good, but ugly doesn’t hurt that much until your market is mature enough for people have choices by which to exercise their aesthetic and user experience preferences."
Tags: design
"The rules are simple. The illustration is 4.4 inches high by 6.875 inches wide; it has to include the five events, the dates of the week, and the words "High Priority;" and it can only use two colors, red and black."
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"Design is not solely visual. Those who believe it is, make an unconscious decision to confine themselves solely to craft. This limits these individuals from growing and taking on more complex and broad challenges."
Tags: design writing communication
Sleeve designed by Peter Saville v.1.3.13
Some great record cover design by Peter Saville.
Tags: design music inspiration
"So in this article, I thought I'd rustle up a few paragraphs describing how I go about producing an A List Apart Illustration."
In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory
"Just as the purpose of DNA analysis is to identify the location and function of every human gene, so the study of typefaces can be seen as an attempt to understand the formal appearance of the smallest unit of the written word."
Tags: typography design font trend
Nice looking stuff.
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May Contain Non-Design Content
"But the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else . . And if I can't get excited about whatever that something else is, I really have trouble doing good work as a designer."
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Design is like a Hand of Cards
"The difficulty with design is that each design project has different problems to solve. While we want to be able to generalize those problems, doing so actually hurts our chances at creating an appropriate solution to our specific problems."
The sharpest knives in the drawer
And that's just the beginning. Here's how Oxo tools became the gold standard for serious cooks.
Tags: design cooking food passion
Craigslist - Design Eye for the List Guy
An imagined redesign of Craig's List.
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Paul Rand's Final Logo Part 2: Doug Evans + Partners
"Paul Rand’s actual final logo was for Doug Evans + Partners. Below are the sketches and final designs. Enjoy."
Tags: design logos process inspiration
"What I’m not opposed to saying, however, is that the style used in an essay certainly seems to influence grading tendencies, even if that is at an unconcious level."
"The mission of this blog is to educate both clients and Visual Communication designers (also known as 'graphic' designers) about the nature of speculative, or "spec" work."
This teacher draws out the artist in students
On a high school teacher who teaches design: "My art room has evolved into a safe place for students, where design is used as a bridge to art and science."
Tags: education design teaching
How to design your blog with C.R.A.P.: Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity.
Google and the Tyranny of Good Design
"You don’t see the work of sign writers any more; it’s hard to find handmade signs and ramshackle window displays. The urban environment is now over-designed. It's all too branded, too inhuman."
Complexity causes 50% of product returns
"Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices."
Tags: design consumerism
"Of course you may use Excel’s graph tool to easily create a bunch of charts  but let’s face it, more or less all of those predefined designs suck. So you have to look for another option."
Tags: design illustrator tutorial
A creative director talking about clients: "They don’t know what they want. That is our job. It was what we do. We figure that out.�
Tags: design business creativity
"First of all, dismissing visual design as just a matter of “making things pretty� cuts off your ability to communicate with your customers at the knees."
Why Features Don't Matter Anymore: The New Laws of Digital Technology
" As computing and digital devices move more and more into the consumer space, features and functionalities will increasingly take the back-seat as motivators for technology adoption."
Tags: technology trend design simplicity ux
A really well done Flash portfolio site.
Tags: inspiration portfolio design
Starting points for typographic inspiration.
Tags: typography design tutorial
The role of anti-marketing design
This time it's Scoble telling the world how bad design is good for your company . . .
Thousands of Design Resources
It's Simple. Design Communicates.
"If you want design to have a strategic role in your organization- find an opportunity where design can be used for real communication and not mere styling."
Tags: design management communication
Inventor Dean Kamen (of Segway fame) talks about solving the right problems in product design.
Project Lemonade: Creating Beauty within Chaos
"Despite the proliferation of gallery sites like Stylegala, there is still an overwhelming amount of confused designers who start off with a great vision and then fail in execution."
A Speak Up interview with Dutch design Stuart Bailey.
Tags: design interviews
The Layers of Design: the style layer
"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."
Tags: design
A typophile forum thread about why typographers are so passionate about their craft.
Tags: typography passion design
If West is the NBA's logo, should he be?
"The NBA logo is, outside of the Olympic rings and the Nike "swoosh," the world's most recognizable sports emblem."
Tags: sports design logos marketing business
"Ask why. Question answers. Assume nothing. Especially as you consider design's role in shaping the world."
Tags: design
"monochrom's attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos (nine international, three typically European) from memory, 25 people per brand. Salut, share of mind!"
Tags: branding logos design marketing research
Microsoft iPod packaging parody
What if microsoft redesigned the ipod packaging?
Tags: funny marketing microsoft ipod design
The New York Times touches on the current fascination with type.
Tags: typography font design trend nytimes
"86 Recipes is a city-specific collection of authentic recipes straight from professional kitchens to your home."
Nando Costa: Brasil Inspired graphics
"Nando Costa created Brasil Inspired by Die Gestalten in 2003: a richly illustrated book featuring work from local and internationally renowned graphic artists about Brazil."
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The portfolio site of Thomas Schostok.
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His mission: to redesign with today's readers in mind
"World-famous newspaper designer Mario Garcia embraces the challenge of blending the old with the new as he helps reinvent the Wall Street Journal."
Tags: design newspapers
HTML Codes - Table of ascii characters and symbols
Standard ASCII set, HTML Entity names, ISO 10646, ISO 8879, ISO 8859-1 Latin alphabet No. 1.
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"Smashing and overexceeding projects of tantamount quality, ingeniosity and creativity. Speed travel through the past year, and rediscover amazing sites. As you will see, 2005, was indeed a very good year for design!"
Tags: design inspiration bestof2005 lists
Schrodinger's Products (ten ways to be desirable)
Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users gives her "Ten ways to make your product desirable."
Tags: design marketing passion business
A Flickr photoset of sites that Andy Budd finds inspirational.
Tags: design inspiration internet
PingMag’s choice of Japanese cigarette packaging.
Tags: design japan cigarettes packaging
"This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns. In many cases we have bundled the patterns with pointers to related code from the Yahoo! User Interface Code Library."
Tags: yahoo ui design interface javascript ux ia
How can the design of digital surfaces help engender trust?
"In other words, when we're presenting interfaces of tracks or radio programmes or books that people have a relationship with, how do we represent those relationships and patterns of usage at the surface layer?"
Tags: design communication culture ux usability
"While many within the design world pursue linear processes, and embrace well-meaning philosophies such as the user-centric model, real integration – real vision – demands something both more profound and more difficult to achieve."
Tags: design management business
What Web Designers Really Want for Valentine's Day
There's nothing quite like geek humor.
Madison Avenue's 30-Second Spot Remover
Robert M. Greenberg is redefining advertising by making the delivery of the message a two-way street between marketers and consumers.
Tags: marketing advertising media future internet nytimes design
Oded Ezer - experimental Hebrew typography
"A letter is something that came up from culture, it is an artificial sign for something which has a meaning and long history behind it. What I’m trying to do is to understand this process of creating and re-shaping this cultural element."
Tags: typography design inspiration
The portfolio of Mario Hugo.
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Just in case anybody ever needs 'em.
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Some amazing poster design from China.
Tags: design china inspiration
Hungry? Want another bullshit sandwich?
"Those who say that poorly designed websites are partly responsible for some companies’ success are feeding you a load of crap. And too many of you are eating it up."
Tags: design business internet
Andy Rutledge redesigns Google's homepage.
Tags: design google internet ui ia
"Engineering is the construction of function: enabling products to work. Marketing is the understanding of context: who is this for and what are we telling them. Design is communication: the interfaces . . . and ads that speak to potential customers."
Tags: design management
Everything Counts (in large amounts)
In this essay we will look at some of the ways that ideas about architecture are affected by electronic communication and the culture that surrounds it.
Tags: architecture design attention technology media culture art
Discussing the new (somewhat bizarre) design chosen as the winner in the Swiss banknote redesign competition.
Tags: money design switzerland
The Moment of Zen: The Daily Show and Product Development
"While there’s nothing particularly unique about the way The Daily Show involves the audience, it does remind us that good design practices that truly include audiences are ubiquitous; not just for narrowly defined brainstorming sessions and design revi
Tags: television process design
get out of your lab, and into their lives
Petere Merholz of Adaptive Path recommends abandoning traditional usability testing and instead allowing people to test in their normal computing environments.
Tags: usability research design
"Adrian Shaughnessy’s first book “How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul� takes readers through the pitfalls of client pitches to the hazards of portfolio preparation."
Tags: design interviews books
Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
Google: "In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results we found are available below."
Tags: internet design statistics research
"blik surface graphics are oversized, geometric decals that allow anyone to quickly and easily create custom wallscapes in no time."
10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006
"Here’s a new years resolution for the web at large: stop doing silly things to users. Following are top trends that I just hope will not see 2007."
Tags: trend design internet usability
Some things to think about when redesigning a homepage.
Thinking through what brands you ally yourself with and why.
Tags: branding design business marketing
"Visual literacy is good for design: when people experience the power of typography and images first-hand, they can better understand design that is produced at the highest level. "
The biggest collection of photos of designed Japanese manhole covers I've ever seen. Not that that's saying so much.
Tags: japan design photography
"If you're designing for international audiences, remember that how you use color to represent your product or information has a significant impact on how it will be received."
Some amazing looking music videos via Veer: The Skinny.
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25 Sites You Shouldn't Have Missed in 2005
"The year 2005 was rich on fresh, inspiring and useful Web-Development-Resources. Here is the list of the 25 sites you probably shouldn’t have missed in 2005."
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dot-font: Ten Tips for Top Type
It doesn't take much to produce pages with type that looks professional and pleasing, and that's easy to read.
Tags: typography design
A look at the New Yorker and its design consistency.
Tags: magazines design simplicity nyc
Josh Porter thinks about the three attributes a successful piece of web magic must have.
Tags: internet design interface simplicity software usability
"When a mobile phone is primarily used as a phone book to facilitate kiosk phone calls, how does this change the way the product should be designed?"
Speak Up! looks at how corporate logos are animated on television.
Tags: logos animation television design
"The finicky world of CSS isn’t the best match for the precise art of typography, but you can do more to improve the readability and beauty of your Web pages than you think."
Tags: typography css design usability
Not Your Grandparent's Clenched Fist
A look at the history of the fist as a symbol.
2006: The Year of Total Design
Total Design is "what happens when you combine wickedly good design thinkers with a human-centered, business-sensitive design process."
The Website Development Process
The process of creating a website performed by Playmobile toys.
Tags: design internet process projectmanagement ia
Dos and Don'ts for Beating the iPod (and iTunes)
Anil Dash offers some tips for prospective iPod competitors.
Tags: ipod itunes music design tips
A Harvard Business Review article about how software companies SAS implements management strategies to keep the best and brightest happy.
Tags: management creativity design
How to build innovative companies
Tags: innovation business creativity design
The photo portfolio of a friend of mine as designed by me.
Tags: photography design
A long and serious look at the design problems of the iPod.
Tags: design apple ipod interface usability
Luke Wroblewski attempts to "outline how design processes differ from traditional business processes."
Designers: New York Commuters Need You!
Choosing new fonts for those signs asking for rides in and out of New York.
Tags: typography nyc design
Erik Spiekermann - typography and design today
"Erik Spiekermann calls himself an information architect. He is equally comfortable and prolific as a writer, graphic and typeface designer."
Tags: design typography interviews
How to bring the information buried deep in your blog forward.
Breaking out of tables and into CSS offers new opportunities to extend grid and non-grid design further than we imagined on the web.
Bold predictions for the savvy designer, 2006 edition
Cameron Moll makes his web design predicitions for 2006.
Tags: design predictions
Seedmagazine.com - Lookin' Good
How Movable Type was implemented as the content management system for Seed Magazine's new website.
Tags: blogs magazines design movabletype
"Having written an app for everything already, Google will unveil an API to their cafeteria allowing bloggers to choose what employees will eat at lunchtime  Lutefisk will go ranked number 1 for 47 weeks straight."
For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm, and the integration of established typographical techniques and rules was unimagined.
Tags: css design typography tips usability
Part three in The Official AdLand Advertising Tutorial, the dos and don'ts (as well as some serious advice) for art directors.
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CMYK jokes in advertising. Awesome.
Tags: advertising design colors funny
"A small utility that will convert your Mac icons to Windows XP icons. The utility is free and part of the public domain. Source is available. Download size is just 50kB. That's about all you need to know."
Tags: software free apple design icons
Logoworks.com will make a logo for your company on the cheap. Apparently they manage to do this by simply copying the logo's of other companies.
"It's now officially annoying to use web apps that haven't replaced clunky html functionality with peppy Ajax goodness. Here are places Ajax should now be required in a web application"
Tags: ajax design interface tips usability
I Invented ... the Yellow First-Down Line
"Meet Marvin White, the mastermind behind the greatest boon to televised sports since slo-mo."
Tags: sports innovation design television
A cool flash/video-based thingamabober that . . . oh hell, just go to the site.
Tags: design typography video
"If we are going to help people cope with the arrival of the information society, where information can be delivered "any time, any place, anywhere," then information design needs to stake a larger claim in the corporate world."
Tags: design informationoverload business
Garrett Dimon: "Something I’ve been doing for a while is always adding a comment after ever closing div tag that indicates which opening div it’s supposed to be related to."
Rather than trying to hide or work around the ubiquitous grey air conditioners, these architects designed an exterior that embraces the grey rectangles.
Tags: architecture design
capture, manage, access and deliver content across your enterprise
Tags: business collaboration design software projectmanagement
Readers around the world were polled and the winners have been announced.
Tags: funny branding design sex
A good List Apart article explaining (with examples) how to make a very functional 404 page.
Tags: design javascript usability
Garrett Dimon: "With big and simple, it’s about removing the noise, and making the important stuff standout."
Tags: design trend usability simplicity
Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content
Joshua Porter: "With all these aggregators providing new places to start our searches for content, what will become of the home page?"
Tags: aggregation design ia unbundled
"It then dawned upon me that the intellectual approach to simplicity is to reduce details, whereas the intuitive approach to simplicity is to add subtlety."
Tags: simplicity design sports
"His goal was to make it simple to use and a joy to look at. He succeeded. The result was the iPod"
Tags: apple design usability technology
Designing in Hostile Territory
"You don't need anyone's permission to think like a designer. But there are five things you need to do if you want to be effective in a "design-unfriendly organization.""
Yotophoto is the first and only internet search engine for finding free-to-use stock photographs and images
Tags: photography free design search
Semantic Typography: Bridging the XHTML gap
Using a real estate listing to explain how semantic XHTML should work.
Tags: css design semantic xhtml typography usability
“Just to make everyone happy,� said the Lord God, “today I’m thinking oceans, for contrast.�
Tags: funny intelligentdesign design posted
A great quote from Invention and Evolution: Design in Nature and Engineering by M.J. French
"Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!"
Tags: design free templates posted
" Fuss. Do Sweat The Details. The devil may be in the details, but a Divinely Good product requires attention to detail."
Tags: design
Adaptive Path: "Every large corporation has a marketing strategy that outlines what it wants to say to customers, but many of them still aren’t using their homepages effectively to highlight that message."
Tags: architecture branding internet design marketing usability posted
The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
"Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollarsâ€â€it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color"
Tags: business colors design innovation science toys posted
Dynamic Resolution Dependent Layouts
"You can change 3-column layouts to 2-column layouts, provide appropriate font-sizes to increase legibility, and even reward higher resolution viewers with extra content and larger images."
Tags: javascript css design
Portfolio of Eduardo Recife.
Tags: art design font free typography portfolio
"Unnecessary details can put the brakes on innovative thinking. Better to focus on big picture up front. The details will follow naturally."
Tags: design process simplicity posted
On the Value of Design: A look at Stationery Package Creative Fees
"It is up to the creative community to stand their ground and educate and/or reinforce the value that design and creativity brings to the table."
Tags: design business money posted
"That’s really what interests me the most: making dense and complicated information applications usable and pleasing for real people; it’s how I define the term “design.�"
Tags: design interviews posted
"They may not tell you, but clients expectâ€â€even demand things from the creative firms they work with. Learn how to meet and exceed those expectations."
Tags: business communication design process marketing projectmanagement tips posted
Pizza Flyers: The Height of Good Graphic Design?
"The fact is, pizza flyers set up precisely the right expectations about the product and the service: cheap, cheerful and quick."
"I’ve realized that the basic corporate design model for Web and application design is broken. This article will share some of the conclusions I’ve drawn and propose some better approaches for designing successful applications."
Tags: business design development interface productivity ux posted
Coudal Partner's 12 minute short film.
Tags: advertising copywriting funny design movies video posted
A couple of days ago we had a forum entry on how to create badges, like those used on Bartelme Design to indicate new entries. So here is a short description of how to create them using Adobe Photoshop.
Tags: design howto icons photoshop tutorial
"CEO Jason Fried's startup philosophy can be summed up in three short words: Keep it simple"
Tags: business design internet simplicity software posted
Typography Crash Course Roundup
"The following resources are comprised of some of my favorite articles on the subject and some sites that should give most a great head start."
Tags: design font typography tutorial posted
Insights and inspiration for the user experience community
"Clear, concise design is a key factor in the success of all user interfaces, especially when you consider the amount of information we’re all required to parse in today’s digital world."
Tags: design ui ux simplicity interface posted
" New visual strategies are connecting brands to consumers at a visceral level via stripped-down brand identities and communications."
Tags: branding design simplicity posted
"CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously."
Tags: css software free windows design
"This is a pure CSS image switcher that is lightweight and standards-compliant. It could be used for a gallery or any similar function."
Tags: css design gallery posted
Thinking Sideways: Exploring pattern recognition acceleration
An interview with Malcolm Gladwell about Blink and the topics within.
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A whole gallery full of vintage wallpaper patterns. Mmmmmm . . .
A gallery full of screenshots and links to good blog design. It's in Spanish, by the way.
"The set includes 15 custom, 32×32, transparent PNG icons, PSD file included. These icons are perfect for browser skins, or anything else you want to use them for."
Tags: icons free design posted
"The acclaimed SoHo store owner highlights the design trends he sees emerging around the world, from the human touch to low-tech approaches"
Tags: design trend furniture posted
A Dashboard application that allows you to "instantly copy a chunk of “Lorem Ipsum� to your clipboard with a single click."
Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign
"The desire to redesign is aesthetic-driven, while the desire to realign is purpose-driven."
The Great Non-Amber-Colored Hope
"And if ClearRx is a success, you can be sure that no one will be happier than the graphic design community. Starved for years for persuasive proof that graphic design can make a difference, we finally have an icon to call our own."
Tags: design target health posted
How the swoosh came to be for only $35.
Tags: branding design nike posted
Most Designers aren't Design Thinkers - Yet
"The shorthand of “design thinking� gathers a set of skills and perspectives that correlate to increased design maturity framing and solving problems, instead of designing function, form, and style."
Tags: design thinking business posted
IKEA asked 28 designers to explore and experiment. Check out what they came up with.
Tags: design furniture ikea posted
"FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software."
Tags: apple free font software organization typography design
Worn Photoshop Brushes For High Resolution
A set of cool, free worn looking hi-res Photoshop brushes
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Jakob Nielsen: "Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues,"
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The design portfolio of Peter Reid
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"Enter the kitchen that is designchuchi and let your palatine be indulged by a home-made meal cooked with exquisite and fresh ingredients from only the choicest places in the world."
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"Pixen is the best program for the pixel artist using Mac OS X. There is no competition, not even from the huge companies with several-hundred-dollar software suites."
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"It also provides a look at what Apple is doing to get close to the customer, exame the consumer experience and get its product design and innovation right. CEOs, innovation champions, managers, designers, marketers"
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"Can you make the type bigger?"
"When design becomes client driven, and the designer sidelined to a role of passive implementer, the result is the timid repetition of formulaic ideas and endlessly recycled stylistic poses."
Not surprisingly, it's a blog about designers who blog
A tutorial search engine for programming and design
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Website of Jan Rambousek, freelance designer.
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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
Jakob Nielsen: "The oldies continue to be goodies -- or rather, baddies -- in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005."
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The Guardian's New European Look
"It can take months before the full potential and strengths of a newspaper redesign become apparent. A paper is an instrument and its editors and designers have to learn how to play it to perfection."
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A more robust method of positioning a footer
"Recently I've been asked to code up a few sites that require the Web page footer to be positioned either at the bottom of the browser window or at the bottom of the Web page – whichever is visually lowest."
"I would like to talk about some blogging approaches I have here on Google Blogoscoped to help make sure, years from now, this blog makes a good archive – maybe it inspires a thing or two on your own blog!"
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A good story of the final logo Paul Rand designed.
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Visual simplicity: Steve Jobs does it again
"But I think we all can learn a lot by observing Jobs and being mindful of his natural interaction with the audience and his visuals as he tells "his story.""
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"A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design."
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How Would You Change The 'New York Times'?
An AdAge article in which a few designers think about how to fix the New York Times
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"So with that said, we present: HTMLstamps for Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS1, Adobe Photoshop CS2 (as brushes), Adobe InDesign CS2 as well as Macromedia Fireworks and Microsoft Visio."
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Sometimes a Logo Is Just a Logo
"Quark's new logo is strikingly similar to several others. Is it theft? A global conspiracy? Or a failure to follow basic design principles? Gene Gable gives you the dirt, including ways you can sidestep the same type of predicament."
Links to lots of great cheat sheets including Illustrator, Photoshop, CSS, PHP, MySQL, etc.
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"Hand coding your pages gives you unprecedented control over where each element appears on the page. You control where each element goes. You control how your code is formatted. You have the power."
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An impressive collection of posters from the Cuban revolution
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The humble screw has changed little in 2,000 years, until a stubborn engineer at Illinois Tool Works came up with a fascinating new twist.
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More coverage of the Guardian's redesign
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20 courses I didn't take in design school
Kottke: "As part of the conference within a conference for students, Michael Bierut listed 20 courses he did not take in design school (I think I got all of them)"
The designer behind the I Love New York logo amongst other iconic designs
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Simplicity: The Goldilocks Rule
Good design gives users just enough, but not too much, information -- once knowledge is gleaned, attention moves easily on to a larger task
" These bits of inspiration are culled from interface designers, architects, authors, jazz greats, and more. What brings them together here is their affinity to our design philosophy."
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"The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. It's primary role is to make web designer's or web developer's life easier."
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"Media allegiance spells limitation. Think first, then choose what tools to use."
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"Ads of the World (AotW) strives to be an advertising library and community site."
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Flash game in which Helvetica and Arial duke it out. Helvetica to Arial: "We don't need your type here."
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"In design, and particularly logo design, the pessimistic axiom that “everything has already been done� is becoming more and more true"
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Revolution Controller, Revolutionary
"Imagine it as a virtual light saber that you wiggle, turn, jab, etc... And you can pick two up in akimbo for some two-handed action."
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"The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac."
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" Design engineers face the challenge of making consumer products smaller and simpler without sacrificing detail or functionality"
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Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
Garrett Dimon: "After the popularity of my previous going solo article, I thought I’d lay out some more specific ideas on how to become a freelance web developer."
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"FONTSMACK is a repository of sIFR fonts along with TrueType and PostScript fonts."
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9 Lessons from 9 Years of Interface Design
"As a result, I’ve always approached design as a learning experience rather than a production process of applying guidelines and set processes."
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Honey, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget
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"Need icons for your new website or web application, at the best price there is (free!)? Try one of the following sets"
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"This Web site is an invitation to people from all walks of life to share stories and evidence of how they use design in their everyday lives."
"Structure your life as the smart designer does the page. Leave space. Make it vital."
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Assessing the new Guardian, with brief nod to the avant-garde (aka Grazia, Heat and The Sun)
A very long look at the Guardian's print redesign by cityofsound
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"TheNews.com.au®, was founded by Tasmanian Designer Jason Carter in 2001, with it’s prime objective to focus on design in Australia."
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"His color is a lot like yours, but smooth and shaded like Unified. And thinner. No borders. It’s a very chic look. Reminds me of you, back in the day."
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An interactive gallery of movie title sequences designed by Saul Bass
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Project management for a freelance designer: "This article is a starting point to start thinking about communication in the creative process."
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A free ruler application for measuring in pixels or inches on the screen.
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Nice list of Ajax apps that even includes honorable mentions.
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Ten more CSS tricks you may not know
"Our article, Ten CSS tricks you may not know has proven to be such a success that we decided it was time to offer you ten more CSS tricks that you may not know."
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Using OS X's built in color picker with Photoshop
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Interview with Jason Fried of 37Signals
"The best marketing in the world is to give people products they love. Give them things they want to tell others about."
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Digital Web Magazine interview with Dan Cederholm
"Ethan Marcotte gives us an interview with Dan Cederholm about his new book, Bulletproof Web Design, and much more."
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Web Development Trends for 2006
"Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors . . . have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on."
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"Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OSX that makes screenshots of webpages."
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Essential bookmarks for web-designers and webdevelopers
"Essential bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers', previously updated on my web-site, have a new design, a new hierarchical structure and, of course, new web-dev-resources."
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How we got the unusual symbol used for the menu command key
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"This is a website written by a guy who likes to complain about the small fiddly parts of things."
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Pioneering programmer Joshua Dvis works with a star pupil: his software.
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"Just click any element on this page, for example the banner, and a box will appear that will allow you to set various styling options."
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"Information and experience are like food for the creative process. It's raw substance. Information needs to be digested to brain-fat so it can re-immerge as mature creative energy."
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"Joshua Davis is a New York based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions."
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Content Stripped Bare: Death of design; reign of content?
"Design, too, is stripped bare. With content playing first fiddle to the world of digital applications, design (or the kind of design that encompasses album art, book jackets, editorial illustrations, and even websites) becomes less and less important."
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Structuralist Collective: The Stifling Effects of the Formulaic Approach
"Using the same approach over and over for projects, just because it's worked before or because it's comfortable, can be detrimental to your creative well being. In fact, it can be devastating."
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Creating a Star Rater using CSS
"Can you create a star rating using only CSS. I’m talking the kind that when you hover over the 4th star, there are four stars that show up on the hover state."
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"Looking at the Google logo, it says to me, "Hi! I'm not very bright and I love looking directly at the sun!""
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GUIdebook: "Welcome to the interview with John Gruber, author of Daring Fireball Link points to external site and long-time critic and observer of Mac OS X interface."
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MySpace: Is 'ghetto' a design choice?
"From a design perspective we have to look at it as a failure, but obviously it's not. Why is that? Why hype ugliness?"
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Photo Gallery Templates available
Stopdesign: "Without putting too much fanfare into this, I’m proud to inform anyone interested that the MT version of my Photo Gallery Templates are finally available for download."
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An Overview of Current CSS Layout Techniques
"Over the last several years I’ve been asked by many web designers and developers about how to best get started with building web sites using CSS and standards . . . This overview is sort of my penance.
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
"To make better sites  sites that are functional, beautiful, and "usable"  we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements."
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"Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them."
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Make tables that can sort without refreshing
" A piece about memories, seasons and using the elements of the textual representation of the memory to create an interactive one."
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Scans of the ads in the New Yorker issue that Target completely bought out
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300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have
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"Approximately 1800 web sites later, I have this collection of 300 of the most interesting, unique, and beautiful formations of pixels to display."
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Christian Marc Schmidt designer
"Christian Marc Schmidt designs web sites, user interfaces, books, publications, videos, exhibitions, typefaces, wayfinding and identity systems."
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Industries that Don't Seem to Understand the Web
"While there are plenty of businesses that don’t seem to understand that the web can do amazing things for them, there are some cases where an entire industry seems to not understand the full potential of the web."
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Five Mistakes Band Label Sites Make
43 Folders: "Admittedly, this is well off our usual fare, but please indulge me in a public service message on behalf of music fans across the Internetsâ€â€five mistakes that band and label sites make (and a few tips on how to fix them)."
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"The elements of design discuss the components of the composition itself, and provide the designer with a basic set of tools to begin working with."
"We focus on the fact that it is Web design and push aside core design conceptsâ€â€concepts that can that make any project stronger without interfering in the more technical considerations later on."
Hey DJ - Web 2.0 and remix culture
"If the value of the content is created by we the people, then we the people should be able to take that content back and build new things with it."
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Developing web-sites, exploring own imagination (CSS, Color Tools, SEO, Usability etc.)
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"So we let web designers view screenshots of their pages in different browsers, at different screen resolutions and with different plugins. We're trying to make this service easy to use, open for all (including access to the source code) and 100% free, as
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"Shaun Inman is the designer/developer responsible for Designologue, Mint and IFR. Originally from the Boston, Massachusetts area, he now resides in Baltimore, Maryland"
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"The Web celebrates its 10th anniversary and it's still a pain to use -- clunky, slow and unresponsive. But thanks to creative small companies like Chicago's 37 Signals, the Web is finally becoming as fun and flexible as your favorite software."
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"Here's a quick number on how to produce a box with rounded corners using only one image, and off-setting that image for each corner."
37signals: Part 3 and my coffin is being prepared
Whitespace: "Many of us have gotten to the point of where we either give a website a 10 or a 0. Why can't we see what's good and not so good (see that sounds much better than "bad") about websites/apps?"
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SimpleBits: "Here’s a quick look at the methods and techniques I used to create an icon from the Overcast set."
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Getting Real: The problem with preferences, interface design, and the customer experience
"And that’s the point I want to make. One of the hidden dangers of highly customized software, and products flush with preferences, is that it becomes very difficult to craft an ideal customer experience."
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"CSS files can be included on the fly, so for example the user can switch to his/her prefered stylesheet without reloading the page. Neat! "
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Drunkey Love - part of el73.be
"Drunkey | Love is the home of free to use resources created by Kevin Wetzels of el73."
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"If you could only buy 6 fonts, what would they be?"
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Apple introduces two-button mouse, a collective silence falls over all those who make the argument Apple sucks because there's no right click.
"We believe both web applications and learning about how to create web applications can always be better."
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"This site was designed as a place for me to convey some of my ideas and keep a record of my thoughts. If it helps people code better websites, then that will make me happy."
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A list of good (and bad) musicians' websites
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Innovation: Throwing Design Rules Out The Window
"Sometimes rules should be thrown out the window. Often the most valuable lesson in art and design schools is ignored."
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The step-by-step process of redesigning Digg
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CSS Image Maps - Flickr-like Technique?
"Below is a sample image map that's built entirely using CSS and XHTML."
"A lot of the links to the service say things like "full of AJAXy goodness!" or "guess how small the dev team was?" or "it's Ruby on Rails!". People, this is a tool for helping your business make more money."
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What are the best ways to represent visited links?
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Side-Business Software: The neglected software market
"Who cares about the Fortune 500? It’s time to care about the Fortune 5,000,000."
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Some great quotes about dealing with terrible clients.
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Coldplay X&Y Album Art Generator
You type your words and it encodes it into Coldplay X&Y album art
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Net Rage: A Study of Blogs and Usability
Catalyst’s proprietary test of the usability of blogs, conducted in late June and early July of 2005
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"Mixing vector and photo is one of the hottest trends in the illustration industry today . . . In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to create this effect in Illustrator.
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A list of the designs discussed in The Zen of CSS Design.
Top Ten Ways to handle Bad Clients
"There is nothing more frustrating than a bad client that turns your project into a nightmare. I've had my share of them and I thought I'd give my ways I handle them."
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NYTimes: "While most of us don't think about typography, beyond choosing among the preinstalled fonts in our home computers, consider an up-and-coming font, like Bello."
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"FontFreak.com, one of the largest and most visited free-/shareware font archive on the net."
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"John D. Berry journeys through the bowels of our transit systems in search of enlightenment and a few clear directions."
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"These are online games that, in my opinion, offer a "good experience" - good game design with an overall attention to quality. Unless otherwise noted, they're all free, online, and available right now."
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In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here's his five-point plan for how to make the leap.
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Tom Peters interviews Jason Fried, president and founder of 37signals
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"The 37signals manifesto was our original site from 1999-2001. It's a collection of 37 nuggets of online philosophy and design wisdom."
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Jakob Nielsen explains the three things holding up usability on the web.
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"The drop shadows are implemented in valid XHTML and CSS, with no CSS hacks or JavaScript. We call it ydnar Drop-Shadow-Fu."
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"AjaxToolbox.com offers the AjaxRequest Library. It simplifies and extends the capabilities of the XMLHttpRequest object and allows you to immediately jump into working on the ideas you have"
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The no frills inspirational site.
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"This is a collection of Javascript source files, examples, and concepts. Use these instead of always re-inventing JavaScript solutions."
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An ongoing collections of quotes and references to design in business
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Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer
"By careful structure planning, I managed to stripe down all hackery to a much less additional rules."
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Some cool experiments with CSS that include all the code.
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Speak Up!: "I imagine myself getting court marshaled for using the wrong typeface, or having to relinquish my ‘designer hours’ for 5am bugle calls."
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Five simple steps to better typography
"So, in an attempt to spread the word here’s the first of five simple steps to better typography. To kick it off, part one is about the Measure."
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The Evolution of the Starbucks Logo
A look at the evolution of the Starbucks logo over the last 40 years or so
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In an attempt to consolidate into one place all the scripts that happened to come into existence over the last few months, I've finally managed to come up with this site. Hope you like it.
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how i learned to stop worrying and relinquish control
adaptive path: "Relinquishing control is becoming a requirement in all aspects of Internet businesses."
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"This post is about those symbols we use … or rather, those other people use … to indicate common themes, concepts or ideas. "
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"Tackboard is a design comp application. A program used by designers to upload screenshots of designs before they're built out into HTML for clients to review."
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Garrett Dimon: "We learn something new, a competitive advantage if you will, and we post about it as soon as we can to share it with the world."
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Contest gets the lowdown on what makes readers forward links
The Contagious Media Showdown sought who could create the most popular Web site in 22 days. While winners such as Forget-Me-Not Panties seem obvious now -- their winning strategies are not.
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"Get inspired by these web-smart color schemes, taken from a variety of sources and updated regularly."
Garrett Dimon: "On the web, precise control of how a design is experienced is a lot like squeezing a wet bar of soap. The more you tighten your grip, the more likely it is to fly out of your hands."
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Mistakes developers can make using AJAX
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All Consuming: An Interview with Rob Walker
Rob Walker examines consumer behavior in his weekly column, "CONSUMED," for The New York Times Magazine. While demurring at the label "design critic" . . .
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Adrian Shaughnessy: Decoding Coldplay’s X&Y
Design Observer examines the cover art of Coldplay's new album X&Y
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With the Swedish furniture chain in expansion mode, design exec Lena Simonsson-Berge discusses how it views the U.S. market
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An Icon interview with architect Rem Koolhaas
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Stop your presentation before it kills again!
Creating Passionate Users: "Sometimes the best presentation is... no presentation. Ditch the slides completely."
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The Web is San Francisco circa 2001
"Visiting San Francisco for the first time in 2001, it all snapped into place. Here was a city cross-hatched by freeways that each felt just a little too dangerous to walk under."
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"Trends are not an accusation of some widespread lack of original thinking. Instead, they are a sign of design evolution in our ever-shrinking world."
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To-Done: "The underlying theme of my thoughts, the rails upon which this train rode, is my fundamental belief that technology should work for me, not the other way around."
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"RSS"...no..."XML"...no...uh...both?
"But then I noticed something about the sites using the "XML" icon: nearly all of them add some text right next to the icon, clarifying that by XML, they really mean RSS."
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How to give and receive criticism
"Good criticism serves one purpose: to give the creator of the work more perspective and help them make their next set of choices."
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A new book from industrial design expert Craig Vogel says companies must continually adapt their products if they are to compete.
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"Individually none of these signs should be deal breakers. However put a few of them together and it may be worth thinking twice about taking on that project."
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Good and Bad Web Design Features
Go through the list of things that people--designers and non-designers--from around the country have cited as the things that make the difference between a well-designed and a poorly designed web page.
The Dark Side of Design Thinking
"Oftentimes, the user, with their idiosyncratic needs and wants, is seen as an obstacle by the designer seeking truth and beauty. Or that the user isn't clever enough to understand what they want, so they should shut up and appreciate what the designer, t
Stop thinking about the web in terms of pages that go from a server to a browser, and instead think of pages as collections of chunks that can each go to and from a server as needed.
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A replacement for MTCommentFields
Trying to find a workaround for MTCommentFields
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What Today's Students Can Learn from IDEO
Eide Neurlearning: "What IDEO may help specifically with is a more systematic approach to teaching and encouraging problem solving."
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mambofrog: "All of these tools work slightly differently, but are based on the same principle: fiddle around until you find an attractive group of colors." Notes on 11 of them.
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Find a color scheme for your site.
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Getting Real: Copywriting is interface design
Go copywriters!
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LukeW: "Now as a flurry of interest in AJAX sweeps the Web, it’s worthwhile to consider the design implications of this technology lest we end up with “Skip AJAX� in the future."
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In a new interview series, NEWSWEEK talks to a leading ecological architect whose goal is nothing less than eliminating waste and pollution.
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Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
Clay Shirky's piece on tagging and the future of categorization
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Welcome to the real David Gensler and what he really thinks about everything. Co-Founder and President of the KDU and considered by many to be the top youth culture strategist in the world,
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Accessibility, usability, the W3C . . . are graphic designers finally coming to terms with the Web?
Steve Jobs Buys a Washing Machine
Wired: An exceprt on the importance of design from iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
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All the Backpacks that weren't
Signal vs. Noise: "Iterative design is a zeroing-in process, and you can start to see this as the changes in each iteration become increasingly subtle."
Kottke sets up the front page with some Ajax. Entry includes some code and interesting links.
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The goal of Pixelpusher.biz is sharing web design ideas, promoting web standards and the use of css magic.
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Quite simply put, CSSEdit will save your sanity when editing style sheets. Its intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful editing features will make you deliver beautiful standards-based sites in no time!
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How to make a horizontal list using css. The simplest explanation I've found.
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A design consultancy based in San Francisco, California, Stopdesign specializes in a simple, beautiful aesthetic, balance of form and function, and highly flexible design.
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A design consultancy based in San Francisco, California, Stopdesign specializes in a simple, beautiful aesthetic, balance of form and function, and highly flexible design.
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YourTotalSite: "Until the web came along, a designer never had to worry about variables such as screen resolution, limited color palettes, or the availability of their favorite font on every machine."
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"What does this mean for Web designers? It means designers have to start thinking about how to brand content as well as sites. It means designers have to get comfortable with Web services and think beyond presentation of place to APIs and syndication."
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What is information architecture?
This article provides an introduction to information architecture, discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture.
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Create notes that appear on the side of a page.
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Designer and budding mogul Marc Ecko says the business of culture is regional
Marc Ecko: "Convergence. Blurring lines. Brands existing dynamically in real time in multiple places. And being more purposeful and meaningful than just being a commodity."
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Javascript functions that allow you to do all sorts of cool stuff to elements
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184 Manually selected Style Sheet Resources
Sorted by category
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This utility cleans and compresses your CSS in a variety of ways, significantly optimizing and reducing its size at the expensive of readability.
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Signal vs. Noise: "A "bud vase feature" is functionality outside the core purpose of a product that evokes emotion about the product, and allows the user to express their personality or character in their use of the product."
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How to Create Frames Layout with CSS
"By far the most sought after use of CSS is to emulate the dated html 'frame' layout, whereby the header, navigation and footer stay on screen at all times and the content area will scroll. "
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Essential bookmarks for web designers and web developers
"The idea was simple: I wanted to list on a one single page the most useful web-sites, which make the life of web designers easier."
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Allows you to modify the page your looking at on your own machine. Delete advertisements, change text color, etc.
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I Like Big Buttons and I Cannot Lie
Garrett Dimon: "The whole idea behind the site was to move the visual design out of the way and focus on the content and comments. One column. Very few graphics. Big and simple headlines."
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A School of Visual Arts Grad Remakes the Pill Bottle
How the pill bottle was remadeâ€â€sensibly and beautifully.
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IE can't handle position: fixed. What follows is the CSS and HTML necessary to emulate the behaviour of fixed positioning in Internet Explorer.
With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS, you too can make your selects beautiful… and you won’t have to sacrifice accessibility, usability or graceful degradation.
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Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: "information displays should be documentary, comparative, causal and explanatory, quantified, multivariate, exploratory, skeptical."
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How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS - WebReference.com
With this article I hope to show you how to produce a professional quality photograph gallery using nothing more than an unordered list of photographs and a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).
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It now looks like a city street.
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Toasters, clock-radios, vacuum cleaners - everyday devices, found in everyday homes. So how do manufacturers make us buy more of what we already have? By getting product designers to think harder about how we use things, and designing products for couples
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10 life lessons from a designer
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How to make buttons using CSS rather than images
Jeffrey Veen: Blinking Out Design
Jeffrey Veen: "Rather than figure out how to design for your audience, design for yourself after becoming like your audience. At that point, I find, snap decisions become good decisions."
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Paper Spends More Time With Its Family
Design Observer: "Just as photography freed painting to do what it did bestâ€â€be paint on canvas rather than a "window on the world"â€â€so computers are freeing paper to be white stuff with marks on it. Paper is getting to "spend more time with its family"
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The First Annual Bottom Line Design Awards
Business 2.0: "Good design is nice to look at, but great design exhibits beauty that's more than skin-deep -- it integrates form, function, and market need."
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Thinking About Design Thinking
Design thinking is "Finding Alternatives . . . Ideation and Prototyping . . . Wicked Problems . . . A Wide Range of Influences . . . Emotion"
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A List Apart: "What if we could have one clean, well-structured menu which would combine the dynamism and code-ease of dropdown menus and do away with their main problems (not to mention degrade beautifully)?"
StopDesign: An answer to the question "How do you stay organized?"
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Index: "Legendary musician, producer, and artist Brian Eno would much rather talk about urbanism, new computer applications, or emergence theory than something as pedestrian as EQ levels or his own brilliant musical history."
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"The obvious implication of Tom's and similar UX illustrations is that one person can't be expected to demonstrate expertise in all these areas; organizations need to invest in multi-disciplinary *teams* if they're serious about UX."
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Diagramming User Experience (GIF)
A great diagram of user experience
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More web design resource links than you could shake a stick at
Type in the address of a site and get back the colors
Five designs that imagine the future of Apple
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This library is a simple way to implement tabs on your page using CSS, a little JS, and semantic markup which degrades gracefully on browsers with CSS unavailable or disabled.
cityofsound: "aesthetics recede as behaviour becomes more important - that behaviour is the aspect people actually engage with."
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Sample chapter from Don't Make Me Think
Users don't actually read websites, they just kind of scan them
Handling its own design work is one reason for best-sellers like the iPod and Shuffle. Steve Jobs is the other
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Art and culture are open to interpretation. Why must we give them fixed identities?
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Some great online art projects
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Web and Blog Design and Development
Some tips to spice up your blog or website
A bunch of links to free stock photography
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Guardian profile of James Dyson, the man behind the vacum cleaner I want
It's a wearable flower that changes color depending on wifi signal strength
Buying a house? Pick up a flatpack at Ikea
Ikea is going to start selling flatpack houses in England
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Some great redesigns for the Metafilter site
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A very impressive collection of photos displayed impressively with flash in 3D
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Four tips for getting yourself out of a design jam.
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Limited Edition East African Wenge Wood Box
Ever dream of a $350 box of chocolates?
How RSS is changing web design
Awesome flash-based site where Vodafone looks at the future
What's in store for web design next year?
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Limited edition Kronenburg cans and bottles
Stop the Web, I Want to Get Off
Joe Gillespie tells his story of being an early web designer
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Planning a usable website: A three-step guide
If you don't plan your website with this in mind right from the start, you could find yourself with a brand new website that solves all your immediate needs... but not those of your site visitors.
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Don't bother reading icon if you want to find the very latest news on product design and architecture. Our lead times are way too long.
A very impressive personal webiste, good flash design, cool navigation
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Finally a good cover for iRiver
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Really cool bathroom fixtures
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Recreations of Escher drawings
A cool collection of favicons from across the web
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Tricked out toilets and pogo sticks . . . enough said
A Unified Field Theory of Design
The 7 ways to organize something
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The Secret Behind the iPod's Scrollwheel
The evolution of the scrollwheel
It's an inflatable room . . . kind of strange but definitely looks like fun
Nine things you can do to make your web site better
Some good advice
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This is an attempt to make the design process easier, and provide a quick reference to check when you run into trouble.
Where'd Ya Get That Color Scheme?
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The Big Web Design Details List
A good list of things to think about when desinging a webpage
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mybackend.com - dynamic database driven websites for free
Survey software
Aquariass: One of the coolest toilets I've ever seen
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Redesigning smh.com.au & theage.com.au with css
User Experience is More Than Design
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The New York Times > Home & Garden > Personal Shopper: Supersize That Semicolon
adaptive path » six design lessons from the apple store
Usability News - Feature: Debunking Web Accessibility Myths
5 Predictions for web deisgn in 2004
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The miracle of ìmhult (part two)
The story of IKEA (part two) -- This is a really great article on IKEA, make sure to read both part 1 and 2
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The miracle of ìmhult (part one)
The story of IKEA (part one)
Design Within Reach: Modern Design, In Stock and Ready to Ship
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