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Highlike. CITY OF EARTH. Some many years ago, I found myself—by accident or coincidence—in a strange country, of which I knew nothing of its customs, culture, or language.

CITY OF EARTH

As I was free to travel around for a while and was very taken with the rugged landscape and especially the unusual (yet uncannily familiar, in some aspects) buildings and their groupings, I decided to record in drawings what I saw. Matt Dempsey - Freelance UI/UX designer for the web. Frank Yoo, UI Designer - Portfolio. After Effects for Beginners: Getting Started. After Effects for Beginners: Effects & Animation. When we launched we asked you to tell us what content you wanted and quite a few of you told us you wanted the basics.

After Effects for Beginners: Effects & Animation

This is the second installment of our 3 part series for after effects beginners. Each section lists at the top the topics that are covered in that section. Even though this series focuses on the latest CS4 release, most of the concepts apply to all the versions of After Effects. This second part of the Essential Training series will teach you how to get started using effects and creating basic animation in After Effects. You will learn all the basics you need to be able to use After Effects and understand the cool tutorials posted here. After Effects CS4 - Essential Training Introduction.

After Effects for Beginners: Advanced Techniques. When we launched we asked you to tell us what content you wanted and quite a few of you told us you wanted the basics.

After Effects for Beginners: Advanced Techniques

This is the second installment of our 3 part series for after effects beginners. Each section lists at the top the topics that are covered in that section. Even though this series focuses on the latest CS4 release, most of the concepts apply to all the versions of After Effects. This third part of the Essential Training series will teach you some advanced techniques in After Effects. You will learn all the basics you need to be able to use After Effects and understand the cool tutorials out here. After Effects CS4 - Essential Training Introduction. 60 User Interface Design Tools A Web Designer Must Have. The success of web applications and websites depends in how well designed the User Interface is.

60 User Interface Design Tools A Web Designer Must Have

Designing a good user interface however is a very challenging process. Game Design, An Introduction. Types of Game Designers. When I got into the industry way back in the 1980s, there was one type of game designer in our industry.

Types of Game Designers

We called him "programmer. " He (or she in the case of the rare few like Dona Bailey) was often a one-man show responsible for design, programming, sound, and art all in one. I worked with one of these individuals right on up until 1988, in fact. Eventually, games grew larger, and with the increased size came a specialization of tasks. Teams formed, and we had artists, programmers, designers and even a sound person. Tips for the Working Designer.

Most of us know of design luminaries in the industry, but in a team of 10 designers there are eight or nine non-lead designers whose quality of work is increasingly important.

Tips for the Working Designer

As non-lead designers, we are often given new challenges from project to project, working on games or parts of games we have never worked on before. Designer Advice: A Beginner's Guide. The job of video game designer is one of the most sought after (and on this site, most asked about) professions in the game development industry.

Designer Advice: A Beginner's Guide

People who are new to the workings of the game development industry are often confused about what designers actually do, what skills are required of them, and how they break into the profession. "Many people dream of becoming game designers like the legendary Sid Meier, Will Wright, or Yu Suzuki. Game designers seem to have the fantasy industry job. Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies. W3C Working Group Note 5 September 2013 This version: Latest version: Previous version: Latest editors' draft: Editors: Michael Cooper, W3C.

Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies

Silk — Interactive generative art. The Dominant Colors of Common Website Qualities. By anthony on 07/26/12 at 2:30 pm Choosing colors for your website is no easy task.

The Dominant Colors of Common Website Qualities

With so many colors and color combinations to choose from, where does a designer begin? The color of your site is important because it influences how users feel about your site. Choose the wrong color, and you’ll repel users from your site. Choose the right color, and you’ll attract them to use your site. Joe Hallock’s research revealed that there are dominant colors that people associate with common website qualities. Trust If trust is an important quality you want users to feel when they visit your site, then use the color blue. Security Blue is also associated with security. GLYPHICONS - library of precisely prepared monochromatic icons and symbols. 10 things every UI designer should know about end users. An interface that fails to consider the user perspective isn't likely to win acceptance.

10 things every UI designer should know about end users

Jack Wallen looks at user habits and attitudes that UI designers should keep in mind. 6 web design trends that are here to stay. Before I started writing this article, I was very concerned about the direction to take – there are literally hundreds of “design trends” blog posts out there, each covering dozen or more examples.

The strange thing was that most of these articles confused trends with fads. It’s time to make a distinction between fads and real trends taking place out there. Trends vs. fads: an important distinction A trend is something that slowly takes place over a longer period of time and will slowly fade away, if ever. Logo Design, Web Design and More. Design Done Differently. 7 user interface design trends you need to know about Designer Blog. If you ever wondered what is the most overlooked aspect of design craft, look no further – it’s user interfaces.

Good or bad, user interfaces are everywhere: on websites, on mobile phones, televisions sets, wrist watches, airplanes and washing machines. Some user interfaces take two people to operate. Not my cup of tea. Whenever there is a user, there is user interface. UX Movement - Articles on Interface Design. Subaru Australia: New Cars, Used Cars, Retailers, Test Drives. Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experience (UX) Designing for Everyone. Apple recently unveiled its impressive new iOS 6 and showcased a truly important new feature: Guided Access, which is a set of accessibility settings that allow users to limit the availability of navigational controls and keep the device locked within a single app.

Apple showcased several uses for Guided Access, including scenarios that give teachers and parents more control, and expand the potential of the iPad to be used in the classroom for activities like test taking. Apple also specifically highlighted the impact of Guided Access for children with disabilities, many of whom were already using iOS devices to communicate independently, play, and learn. The new settings allow specific controls to be disabled and touch inputs to be confined to certain parts of the screen to help “someone with a disability to stay focused on learning.” Introduced as a personal companion to a laptop or desktop, the tablet has become an autonomous tool for learning, communicating, and working. Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experience (UX) Fjord. Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experience (UX)