58 Beautiful Web Application Sites. Shaken and Stirred Web | Kick-ass WordPress Themes and Templates. What’s New for Web Designers – Oct. 2010. New apps and websites seem to be appearing on an almost daily basis, but trying to find the good ones among them can be tough, especially considering how many are not that great. That’s why every month we research and showcase some of the best and latest resources available for web designers. We cover apps, web services, software, fonts and anything else that may be of interest to web designers and developers. If you’d like to include your new product or service in our next roundup, please tweet it to @cameron_chapman and it may be included in next month’s roundup. Please feel free to share your views on the products and services that we’re featuring this month, in the comments area below… The Square Grid The Square Grid is a new grid system based on 35 equal-sized columns, with a 28px baseline-grid and margins of 1px.
Maki Maki is a bookmarklet that lets you overlay a design mockup over an actual website. IntuitionHQ Disquorse Design Kindle Flickr Photo Map Sikbox TweeShot Fonts.com Web Fonts Bontq. Web Design Podcasts Which Will Improve Your Life. Last year we published a post on 7 Great Podcasts for Web Designers which went down well with our readers. Since then, several of the podcasts have dropped off the radar including arguably the most famous one of all time: BoagWorld. At the same time a whole load of new web design related podcasts have sprung up, so today we’re going to take a look at the best way to get your web design news fix in audio format.
All of the podcasts covered here are linked directly through to iTunes so that you can instantly subscribe and download them straight from the source. Enjoy, and don’t forget to tell us what you think in the comments! ExplicitWeb Arguably the best new web design podcast out there (though I may be biased), ExplicitWeb is presented by three people on the front lines of the web design industry: @johnonolan, @erisds and @robhawkes.
The format of the show is conversational, light hearted and to the point. Think Vitamin The Big Web Show It’s everything web that matters. SitePoint Web Design TV. Gestalt Principles Applied in Design. By Michael Tuck Web designers, like other artists and craftsmen, impose structure on the environment. We enforce order and beauty on the formless void that is our blank computer screen. We do it in different ways — creating an organized layout first, writing text and content first, or even basing a design concept on an image, a color palette, or something that visually trips your trigger, whether it’s a sunset or a Song Dynasty painting.
Wherever you gain your inspiration, it’s often not just the particular element that sparks your artistic impulse; it’s the totality of the element and its surroundings. Grasping that totality concept — both the individual element and the whole in which it exists are important both separately and together — is essential to understanding how gestaltism influences our design choices. We’ll cover 6 principles related to gestalt, in the context of design, and they are: ProximitySimilarityPrägnanz (Figure-Ground)Symmetry"Common Fate"Closure Source: Dr. Mr. Symmetry.