Typography. 10 Backgrounds that Could Make Your Website Look Like the New En. While searching the Web for our Webdesign Trend Hunting series, we’ve discovered a new small trend that could go bigger in the next few weeks – the blurry light bubbles background used by the new Envato website. And if the biggest inspirational web network isn’t enough for you, take a look at the new Opera website.
So, if you like ‘em and want to be among the firsts who spot and use the new hype, we’ve made a roundup of 10 backgrounds in the same style. All of them are available in the Graphic River marketplace, also owned by Envato. Sight! Sparkling Dots | $3 | Buy A nice layered package with amazing backgrounds, available in 5 colors Light Effect | $4 | Buy Hight quality abstract backgrounds contain 2 groups, one with 10 and the other one with 20 color variations Spring Abstract | $2 | Buy An abstract background depicting the freshness of spring – and the related nature rejuvenation. 3200 X 2400 at 150 dpi – layered and named for easier editing Web 2.0 Background Pack | $2 | Buy.
Guifx: Simply Better Touchscreen Interfaces. Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics | Smashing Maga. 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs | Ho. Advertisement Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here’s my collection of 10 that I think you’ll find useful in your work. They’re not related to any particular theme, but are rather a collection of techniques I use in my own projects. Without further ado, let’s get started. 1. Padded block links Links (or anchors) are inline elements by default, which means that their clickable area spans only the height and width of the text. Obviously, the larger the clickable area is, the easier it is to click on the link because there is less of a chance of missing it. Make sure to also add a healthy dose of padding to the links, because converting a link into a block only affects its behavior and width; adding padding ensures that the link is high enough and has some room to breathe. 2.
Attention to every detail is what separates a great product from a mediocre one. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. TurboMilk - Visual interface and icon design. Particletree. Online HTML Form Builder Software - Create Free Forms & Surv. Pushing the boundaries of web design. The ultimate user interfac. Designers by nature love to change things. If they aren’t dropping caps to suit a design, they are trying to push the boundaries of what the browser can do. I’ve recently been involved in a project that has needed some different looks for standard user interface elements such as forms.
While I wouldn’t normally condone such activity (from a usability point of view, its a bad idea to change standard UI elements) sometimes graphic designers need “appeased.” (read “shut up”). If you are looking how to go about changing your standard forms and interface to be a bit different you’ve come to the right place. JQuery related I looooove jquery. JNice JNice takes us to a fancy form, with fancy dropdowns. Load Content While Scrolling Demo: Interface Elements for JQuery SuckerFish Dropdowns with JQuery JScrollPane. Squared Eye » Home Page. An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design. The biggest challenge for web designers is the unthinkably huge number of possible ways to solve any given problem. We usually don't think of this because we have our habits and traditions to fall back on, but there are literally billions of possible pixel combinations for each page we make. There is a better way to manage this vast complexity than by making big decisions up front and hoping for the best.
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. Christopher Alexander, who came up with this stuff, calls these chunks patterns. I'm going to show you how to sidestep your habits and assumptions and use patterns to make better design decisions. Step one: List your bits Start by making a list of all the specific bits that must fit together for the web page to succeed as a whole.
Do this on paper if you're working on your own. 3. Related books.