Webdesign - Introduction
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I’ve been thinking more about how I review a design – both my own and someone else’s. So over the past couple days I’ve been writing down every question I’ve been asking when I look at a design-in-progress. Some of these I say out loud, some just go through my head, some are in person, others are posted to Basecamp or Campfire.
Questions I ask when reviewing a design - (37signals)
08 Apr 2011 I recently stumbled across screenshots of old websites of mine and was hurled into a state of reminiscent shock. I knew they were bad, but wow they were outstandingly horrible (redeemed only by their microformats support!
Crash Course: Design for Startups — PaulStamatiou.com
Over the weekend, I ran across several ads for UI / UX contractors from web and mobile startups, looking for someone to come in and design their app. I also noticed a story on Hacker News today, calling on designers to reject Skype’s attempt to get UI design work done for basically $0. It got me thinking about product design in general and made me aware of my skepticism that a company could successfully outsource the UI / UX design of a substantial product to contractors. I’ll explain my reasons and invite people who have been successful with this to prove me wrong. This theoretically shouldn’t be too hard because my opinions are based primarily on my own, admittedly limited, experience. First, let me make very clear what I am talking about.
Can You Outsource Product UX / UI Design Successfully? | Ginzametrics
Getting Started: Learning to Code for the Web, Logically
Coding is a logical process. You want the site or program to do a particular thing. You enter in the commands needed to achieve that end. Learning to develop websites could be approached just as logically.
13 Website Design Mistakes that Designers Should Avoid | Blog@PixelCrayons™
Website Designing is an art as well as a science. In the last decade, web design market has become very competitive. You ought to innovate some or the other thing in your work if you want to survive in this market. Also, Internet surfers have become so smart that they can easily make out the difference between a good and poor website.
Peter Wayner lays out the "dirty dozen" most common programming mistakes in an article at InfoWorld . The mistakes come in pairs. For example: "closing the source" and "assuming openness is a cure-all." What would you add to or subtract from the list? Which of these pitfalls trips you up the most often? Do you have any strategies for avoiding these pitfalls?
12 Most Common Programming Pitfalls
IMVU was started with a particular philosophy: We don't know what customers will like, so let's rapidly build a lot of different stuff and throw away what doesn't work. This was an effective approach to discovering a business by using a sequence of product prototypes to get early customer feedback. The first version of the 3D IMVU client took about six months to build, and as the founders iterated towards a compelling user experience, the user base grew monthly thereafter.
10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code
As web professionals, we’re always looking for ways to improve our knowledge and skills. Tips, tricks and checklists are often one of the most underused yet potentially useful models of providing great, quick and easy to follow pieces of useful information. You may or may not know some of the tips below — and you may or may not agree with everything listed — but hopefully it will give you some ideas for your own sites or motivate you to create a checklist to help cover your bases. Planning what your website needs to contain can help you scale the project size. One fundamental aspect of creating a website is the planning stage.
250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 1)
The best designers never stop learning. Only the mediocre ones think they know it all, that there’s nothing else to learn. But you don’t don’t want to be a mediocre designer, do you?
25 Video Tutorials for Getting Started in Web Design
Did you know that going through Photoshop effects and Photoshop Web Design Tutorials is one of the best and fastest ways to learn web design? Designing web sites is a highly creative process and it isn’t easy at all to get started if you don’t have the right ideas, inspiration, skills and tools available. One thing is to get the idea or falling in love with a design used on some web site you run into. Turning the idea into a concrete design, e.g. a nicely layered and structured PSD ready to be sliced can be quite a challenge unless you have years of experience. One of the best ways to get started is to learn from others having enough experience and passion to share their techniques and ways of working in detailed tutorials. Great thanks to all the Photoshop Web Design Tutorial creators – keep up the great work!
185+ Web Design Tutorials using Photoshop, CSS, HTML etc. - tripwire magazine
Seven Super Quick Tips for Beginner and Amateur Web Designers :Speckyboy Design Magazine
Web design is a tricky art that combines both the creative and the analytical skill sets to create something unique and visually compelling. At the end of the day, good web design is more than the sum of its parts. Beginner and amateur designers may think that web design consists of finding a web host that’s reliable and simply uploading a pre-designed template, but there’s more to it than that, much much. One of the most important aspects of a practical web design layout is intuitive and easy to use navigational aids. Naturally, this starts with the homepage navigation menu, but it should be pushed to the forefront in all areas of a web site. “Cookie crumb” navigation trails at the top of the page look classy and are helpful if the reader needs to quickly go back to a specific area.What Your Web Design Says About You
Font and color choices in a website say certain things about the owner of the site. Though colors and symbols may have different meanings in other cultures , this only reaffirms the notion that design choices do affect the perception of the user, which in turn affects the message attempting to be conveyed. Dona Collins is a part-time teacher and a part-time blogger. She is also an avid designer. She spends her free time creating infographics, videos, and music (with FL Studio). If you would like to know more about Dona or her team, check out CreditLoan or follow them on Twitter .As web professionals, we’re always looking for ways to improve our knowledge and skills. Continuing on with our list of quick web design tips (see Part 1 ), these tips will cover the website development process as well as positive marketing and promotional tips for web designers. Something every web professional should get themselves swimming in on a regular basis is code. Code is the backbone of our entire industry and turns pretty graphics and content into a formal structure that everyone can enjoy.