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Out of the (Drop)Shadows. May 29, 2017 To say that I was disappointed when Apple released iOS7 in 2013 is an understatement.

Out of the (Drop)Shadows

To be on-trend, Apple had flattened their entire UI without any real reinforcing principles. This came with countless oversights to the user’s experience which took a backseat to dropping skeuomorphism. It was flat for the sake of flat. Compare this with Google’s Material Design which came shortly after. Just looking at the two design languages, it’s clear that Material took the better approach. And now Microsoft, who were flat before flat was cool, have announced their new design language: Fluent Design. It is strange that the drop shadow is a visual relic that has managed to cling to UI design for decades. A Different Approach The fact is, we are surrounded by a world that is full of depth, and very little of it is defined by shadow. So how do we perceive depth when shadows aren’t involved? This lead me to another, lesser known type of depth perception. Creating the Effect Content Hue. The types of design research every designer should know NOW. “Stealing Your Way to Original Designs,” an article by Dan Mall.

I have a framework that I find very helpful in teaching my apprentices how to design.

“Stealing Your Way to Original Designs,” an article by Dan Mall

It’s 3 steps: Here are the details. 1. Imitate # The first step to being just a competent designer—or a competent anything, for that matter—is doing what someone else can do. It’s no coincidence that junior designers often get trained up by doing production work after an art director has set an art direction. Think of it like learning to draw by tracing. In his article Copy If You Can: Improving Your UI Design Skills With Copywork, Erik Kennedy extols the virtues of copywork as a great way to practice and hone UI design skills. Done right, copywork exposes you to design decisions you simply wouldn’t have made on your own. Whether new to design or a seasoned creative director, this simple exercise will get you warmed up, like stretching before a long run. 2. Once you can confidently imitate any style you come across, you can start to tweak the elements to feel more custom to the way you need to use it.

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Den 29. juni 2012 rundede Kommunikation og Sprog imponerende 5.000 followers på facebook. Download vores gratis e-bog om klassiske stavefejl i retskrivningen. Download vores gratis tjekliste til bedre mails, så du kan effektivisere din mailkommunikation. 38 Modern List Styles in Website Designs. Tripwire magazine — handpicked goodies for Web Developers and Designers. Responsive Web Design: 50 Examples and Best Practices. Responsive web design term is related to the concept of developing a website design in a manner that helps the lay out to get changed according to the user’s computer screen resolution. More precisely, the concept allows for an advanced 4 column layout 1292 pixels wide, on a 1025 pixel width screen, that auto-simplifies into 2 columns. Also, it suitably fixes on the smartphone and computer tablet screen.

This particular designing technique we call “responsive design”. Now you can test your website using the Responsive Design Tool. Responsive web designing is an entirely different designing version than traditional web designing, and developers (especially fresher) must know about the pros and cons of responsive web designing. Pages that include data tables pose a special challenge to the responsive web designer. Images in responsive web designs are called context-aware. Designmodo Designmodo has a very clean and clear design with a perfect responsive design interface.

Simon Collison. Smashing Magazine. Web Design Blog - Webdesigner Depot.