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Weihnachtsmarkt: „Super Weihnachtsmarkt“ als Starthilfe für Kölner Jungdesigner | Köln - Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Design Compelling Call To Action Buttons | A How-To Guide. Why does a particular call to action fly, while another crashes and burns? What are the design considerations behind creating compelling call to action buttons? This article will shed some light on the subject, and guide you in creating a high-flying call to action button. Position is Paramount The positioning of your call-to-action button is crucial to ensuring it gets the attention you’re aiming for. Putting ample amounts of white space (in the form of margins and padding) around the button will help offset it from the rest of your content. Too often, a call-to-action button is more like an afterthought thrown in at the last minute by the designer, and the result is that it (predictably) gets lost in all the clutter. How many calls to action do you see in the image below: When it comes to getting your call-to-action button recognized, make sure it’s large enough (compared to the other elements on the page) and colorful enough, the call to action should not blend in with the design.

LegaLega Tshirts. "This year's line of Lega-lega t-shirts comes in a specially designed gable top carton for extra freshness! Once opened, inside you'll find a cool Lega-lega t-shirt, and a small sketchbook for doodling and sketching when you feel like it. Lega-lega is a cool brand of notebooks, diaries and t-shirts that offer these simple things in colorful and charming way. Idea that people still prefer the warmth of writing and doodling on paper because it contains our individual touch, something that technology cannot mimic, is at the heart of their philosophy: the shop interior is hand-illustrated, the notebooks are hand-bound... " Designed by MIT disign studio, Croatia. Showcase of 40 Pricing Tables and Signup Pages. A well-designed pricing table and sign-up page can make or break your online business.

Getting users to hit the signup button is one thing, but making the actual signup process easier and helping people chose the right plan or package is a science in itself. Today we’ll have a look at some great pricing table examples. I hope you’ll find some inspiration from the examples showcased below: TypeKit DropBox SquareSpace BigCartel Shopify Notable App CrazyEgg Eleven2 Basecamp Light CMS Freshbooks Concept Feedback PollDaddy FontDeck Are My Sites Up?

Action Method WooThemes Business Catalyst ThisWebHost Wufoo Mobify Zendesk Get Harvest Zoho Invoice Proof HQ Fetch App TypePad Traffik CMS Ronin Sifter Box FormStack Agile Zen Freckle BallPark Jumpchart HootSuite Obox Design Less Accounting The Resumator Your Turn To Talk I hope you liked this post. Royal Kona Coffee Hawaii Shopping Hawaiian Isles Kona Coffee Blend Kauai Maui Molokai ground coffees and Fancy Beans. Ultimate Guide to Website Wireframing. Most designers wireframe their designs in one way or another, even if it just involves them making quick sketches on the back of some scratch paper. Wireframing is an important part of the design process, especially for more complex projects. Wireframes can come in handy when you’re communicating with clients, as it allows them to visualize your ideas more easily than when you just describe them verbally. Marketing is no longer just direct mail and billboards, it’s much more than that.

You must be able to impress your clients by showing care and dedication to their marketing efforts, or they will just go to another agency. This is why wireframing is so important. This guide covers what you need to know about website wireframes to get started. Why You Should Wireframe Your Web Designs Wireframing is really the first step in the design process. Wireframes are also cost-effective by saving you potential time lost due to revising a high-fidelity comp. Wireframe vs. Wireframes come first. Cacoo. 99 Free (and Low Cost) Tools to Improve Your Website. Copycat Design. Many years ago I was working on a design project with an e-commerce company who was selling electronics on the Web.

The design team was working on a large redesign of their web site in response to their latest thinking on what works best for selling their products. At one point I noticed they were making several changes to their web site that reminded me of something I had seen before. So I asked, “Why are you making that change?” Their answer surprised me: “Well, that’s what Amazon.com does and they test the heck out of everything”. This act of copying something because a big-name site does it was new to me at the time…most designers I knew would rather give up designing than blindly copy someone else. But as organizations get bigger and budgets and schedules become tighter, copying gets easier and more frequent.

Copying has become common practice in many organizations. Copying is part of design and always will be. But simply put, copying design is a horrible idea. So, back to Amazon. The UX Bookmark » A huge list of Style Guides and UI Guidelines. 10 Of My Favorite Online Tools for Design and Development :: Echo Enduring Blog. As a designer, writer, husband and father (among other things), my life is pretty full and I absolutely love pretty much anything that can save me time. This is especially true when doing my work as a designer. Over the years, I’ve come across a number of awesome little websites and web apps, created by brilliantly helpful people to make my life easier – and yours too. So, in this article, I’ve decided to share some of my favorite online resources. This isn’t to say that they are necessarily the best or the most powerful.

They’re just the ones that I like to use. Grids I like using grids when I build websites, and the one I use most often is probably the 960 grid system, which I wrote about in one of my first posts on this blog. I’ve found this to be especially useful in my last few projects, in which I did a lot more of the design work in the browser itself, rather than mocking it all up in Photoshop. Grid System Generator The Grid System Generator is a great tool. Tiny Fluid Grid Icons. Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color - Smashing Magazine.

Less is More, More or Less - Opinions - MIX Online. Design decisions based on gut feelings, simple reasoning, and rules of thumb can be as effective, if not more, than those based on complex analyses I recently learned something extremely fascinating from a book called Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. In Greg Gigerenzer’s own words: Intuitions based on only one good reason tend to be accurate when one has to predict the future, when the future is difficult to foresee, and when one has only limited information. They are also more effective in using time and information. What Gigerenzer means is that people generally rely on one good reason to make decisions when the outcome is truly unknowable.

And, that’s OK! It’s worked wonders for us for thousands of years. Mo Options Mo Problems Now, this may seem preposterous to our spreadsheet generation, because it runs counter to the currently dominant microeconomic paradigm called Rational Choice Theory. The credo "more options are better" has become a staple in our generation.