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Navigation and Wayfinding. In his book The Image of the City (1960), Kevin Lynch coined the term “wayfinding” to describe his concept of environmental legibility—that is, the elements of the built environment that allow us to navigate successfully through complex spaces like cities and towns. The most fundamental underlying metaphor of the World Wide Web is navigation through a space populated by places we call web “sites,” and thus the wayfinding metaphor is perfect for thinking about web navigation (fig. 4.1). Wayfinding has four core components: Orientation: Where am I am right now? Route decisions: Can I find the way to where I want to go? Mental mapping: Are my experiences consistent and understandable enough to know where I’ve been and to predict where I should go next?

Closure: Can I recognize that I have arrived in the right place? In interviews conducted in various cities, Lynch had local residents draw maps of their cities from memory. There’s no sense of scale or movement in space There’s no compass.

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All Websites, page three. Social Media. Design Templates. SEO. Creative brief. Internet MARKETING. Best Websites Design Examples, Best Of The Web, Cool Sites Inspiration - Corporate. RESPONSIVE WEB. 35 Specialty Galleries for Your Design Inspiration. All designers need inspiration. That inspiration can come from just about anywhere, and ideally inspiration will be found from a variety of different sources. Nature, print publications, art, music, photography, architecture, and other things that are all around us can serve as excellent sources of design inspiration.

But since most web and graphic designers are online for hours at a time, gallery sites and blogs often become a go-to source of inspiration. While web design and CSS galleries have been popular for several years now, specialty or niche galleries often prove to be the most useful sources of online inspiration. HTML5 Beauty Showcasing sites that make use of HTML5.

HTML5 Gallery Ars HTML5 Gallery Ars CSS3 Gallery Showcasing sites that make use of CSS3. jQuery Style Showcasing sites that make use of jQuery. CartFrenzy A gallery of well-designed e-commerce sites. eCommerce Gallery CartCraze Folio Focus A gallery of beautiful portfolio sites. Foliostars Pixel Perfect Portfolios Church Websites.

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WITH MASCOT. 50 Awesome Portfolios From Female Designers and Illustrators. Think that design is a man’s world? Think again. Today we’ve got over 50 stunning portfolios from extremely talented female designers hailing from all over the planet. Why All Girls? Let’s say you’re a female designer looking to build an online portfolio and you want to get some inspiration from what other female designers have done. Where would you look? A recent survey from A List Apart of over 26,000 web designers revealed that nearly 83% were male. This becomes quite evident when you start browsing through the plethora of portfolio roundups on design blogs, they’re typically all from guys!

The portfolios below absolutely blew me away in terms of talent on display. It doesn’t stop there though, you’ll see a strong display of proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, design theory and every other relevant skill to web design. The Portfolios Winnie Ho “Hi, I’m Winnie, and this is my site. Tanya Merone Meagan Fisher “Raised in Florida, a new New Yorker via Boston. Veerle Pieters Jessica Hische.

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A Design Inspiration. TUTORIAL. I LiKE. RESOURCES. BLUE INSPIRATION. Design Company | StylesInspiration - Part 2. Minimalism Around the Web: Design Inspiration & WordPress Themes. This post showcases minimalist design from around the web, and briefly explains the ideology of minimalism. It is to be used as inspiration for anyone, and as a resource for web designers. Minimalism. Underappreciated by Nature Minimalism used in Website Design is under appreciated, as in so many other areas of design. How can something be beautiful if there is nothing there? It was first said by Robert Browning that “Less is more,” and since then his idea became a fundamental philosophy for minimalist ideology.

Minimal Web Design Showcase The bare, sleek appearance of Behind Design is complimented nicely by its focus-on-hover content areas. Bureau for Visual Affairs uses simple elements like lines, numbers, and blocks of color to create a simple yet totally cohesive website. Designhaus berlin isn’t just a portfolio. Erratic Wisdom adheres to grid. Giles Revell’s Portfolio is straight to the point. Maurice Kuhlborn’s site is split into horizontal bars, each with it’s own content.