Cool Tools are a Must-Have for Web Designers. Admit it, as a designer you are always looking for cool new tips, tools and tricks to enhance your projects and make your life a little easier.
Thankfully, new tools, products, apps and even great user interface kits hit the market almost daily. Daily Inspiration #1416. Create Demo: An Easy Way To Present Adobe Fireworks Design Prototypes. Advertisement With its structured approach to organizing assets, Adobe Fireworks can be a pleasure for designing and prototyping.
But demonstrating your designs on a wide range of devices can be time-consuming and could even require some degree of coding. The Create Demo extension addresses some of these issues. It automatically converts your Fireworks documents into portable presentations, which can then be easily presented in any browser — desktop or mobile. Overview Why Is It Needed?
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At the same time you don’t want it to take up too much space. That is the greatest challenge – to be able to create a winning impact within the space constraints. 1. Flipping Book in CSS and jQuery. The tutorial of this week is about HTML, CSS and a little bit of Javascript with jQuery.
As the rule of trend now is mobile first and any designer who wants to really understand the media will have to be able to create quick prototypes of his/her work, we decide d to write a few basic prototyping tutorials. The first one will be about create a simple flipping book, like a 3 fold brochure, using HTML, CSS and JS for the events. For this tutorial you will have to have some knowledge of HTML and CSS. You can also just copy and paste and change the values to see how it works.
I am still learning and improving my CSS and jQuery skills but I think it's good to share and will try to do that in this post. Step 1 The first step is to create the design. 30 Minimal Logo Designs for your Inspiration. Your logo is your face.
It is how you present your brand to your audience. It is how you want people to see you. Designing the right logo is a very tricky process, especially because you want to visually impress your audience without overwhelming them. Wallpaper of the Week - Old Signage. The Art Of Storytelling Around An App. Advertisement Every app tells a story.
Apps like Pandora tell the story of music; apps like Tip N Split tell a story of a calculator; and apps like Temperature tell the story of weather. Then we have storybook apps like Alice for the iPad, which literally tell stories! The story of the cluttered app market is well known! Biz Report recently reported that the number of app downloads is estimated to reach 56 billion in 2013. For any app developer, conveying an app’s story at launch is critical. Designing For The Multifaceted User. Advertisement Designing with users in mind is a tricky thing.
Not only does it require of us a sound understanding of who our users are, but the actual act of translating what we know about them into a well-designed product is not always an obvious or easy path. Currently, our user experience tools tend to focus on “who” users are. I believe this is a hangover from how we traditionally approached marketing and market research. A couple of years ago, I stumbled across a somewhat different method, which has proven useful in a few of my own projects. 60 best iPad apps for designers. We've gathered together the very best iPad apps in Apple's App Store – and many are free.
You're sure to find a timelessly brilliant app that meets your needs, saving you the hassle of searching through the hundreds of thousands available. Whether you're looking to design on your iPad, carry out research, find inspiration, or improve your task management and productivity there are tons of iPad apps in our list. So here goes, in no particular order... 01. Adobe Capture CC. How to send large files to clients: 5 free tools. The age of the web may have connected continents and allowed the world to function around the clock, but we still haven't quite mastered how to send large files by email.
Down with Boredom: 5 Pattern Generators for Background Designs. Mar 17 2013 If you want the background of your website to consist of more than a color, you’ll be thinking about a background image.
If there’s no obvious image you should use or if you don’t want to get determined by your imagery, while at the same time being able to serve different resolutions more or less effortlessly, you’ll soon turn your thoughts on textures or repetitive patterns. Creating repetitive, seamless patterns is not easy. How To Sell Your UX Design Solution To Clients. Advertisement How do you convince clients to trust you with their valuable and much-loved product?
In my experience, the best way to sell work to clients is to apply user-centered design not only to the work we produce, but also to the clients who commission that work. Designing Great Feedback Loops. Advertisement The products we build are full of feedback loops, whether we know it or not. People who study human behavior agree that feedback loops play a critical role in what we do. From biofeedback to the quantified self, designers and psychologists alike are discovering the real power that these cyclical interactions play in shaping our day-to-day choices. Designing for behavior change can increase user engagement, create business value and improve lives. Whatever you’re designing, it probably involves feedback. What They Are, And Where They Live. Tuesday Total Textures 161. Account Creation, Standalone Mobile Websites, And Dealing With None-UX Designers.
Advertisement Editor’s note: Welcome to Smashing Magazine UX Design Q&A. It works like this: you send in questions you have about UX Design, and each month we’ll pick a handful of questions asked by our readers about best practices in designing smart and usable experiences. They will be answered by Christian Holst1, a regular author here on Smashing Magazine and founder of the Baymard Institute2. Prior to cofounding the Baymard Institute in 2009, he worked as a usability engineer in the hearing-aid, credit-card and consulting industries. Web Design Trends in 2013. The past few years have seen a tremendous shift in the way developers are building websites. More users have switched onto mobile platforms, along with newer browsers which support HTML5/CSS3 web standards.
There are so many unique ideas flowing out of the design community – it seems like new thresholds are being replaced every few months! In this article I would like to go over some of the most recent trends we have seen evolving. Today. 10 things HBO?s Girls can teach you about design. Even if you haven’t seen the show, you’ve almost certainly heard of HBO’s hit Girls, created by and starring Lena Dunham. The show follows four 20-something women living in Brooklyn and all that that entails. Because it’s aired on premium cable, Girls doesn’t pull any punches, and has a lot of adult content.
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Should you learn to code? I earned my BFA in ’98. Learned to layout feature pages and create infographics for the local daily paper. I earned a Photoshop ACE in ’03. My most recent full-time contract was pure mock-up design work. Create a Portrayal of a Human Transitioning Into a Statue. Logo Design: Crowns. 30 Free PSD Web Design Templates. Awesome Magneto Digital Painting Case Study by Eric Vasquez. This is a Case Study based off of the Marvel Villains Series that I just recently completed. The series consists of 8 digital paintings depicting some of the most evil villains in the Marvel Universe. As an avid comic book fan, I wanted to create something that I felt very passionate about and really take my time to try and develop my digital painting skills along the way. The following is a closer look at the process for one of the eight paintings that all began with a pencil drawing.
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