45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires - Smashing Magazine Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing – there’s a lot to keep track of and a lot to make sure gets done. That’s where checklists can make your life a whole lot easier. With lists of points covering multiple areas from content to usability to accessibility to standards, you’re a lot less likely to overlook important parts of a site. Below are 45 checklists to make your design process easier and more organized. Also consider our previous article: 15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website1 lists some important things to check before you make your sites public. 1. These questionnaires and checklists are focused on making your relationships with your clients better. How to Extract the Facts with a Web Design Client Questionnaire2 This questionnaire from Freelance Switch is meant to send out to prospective clients to get a good idea of what they’re looking for from a website. 2. 3. 4. Dr.
50 Graphic tributes to Steve Jobs With the passing of Steve Jobs this month, designers around the world are creating tributes. Considering the impact Jobs had on the technology and design fields, it’s not surprising to see the number of creative designs created to pay homage to his legacy. A great collection of these tributes have been recently posted to Behance.net. Below, we’ve collected fifty of these designs, all inspired by the life of Jobs and the impact he had on the world. Feel free to share other designs that we may have missed and let us know which ones you like best in the comments…. Dan Malarkey Aakreit Sachdeva Mohammed Al-Humran Moanungsang Lemtur Henk Nyenhuis Nuno Queiros G. Francois Hoang Jessica Menda Dado Lo Emer Jimmy Landaburu Alvaro Rojas Simona Marino Pascal Cataye Paul Gomes Mahmoud Alkhawaja Zuka Daniel Zuleta Shadman Ahmed Cody Small Gregbo Watson Dennis Pfeil Ryan Rachmanto Gary Chew Orighomisan Ogbebor Jermaine Ryan Ford Marco Salvador Mauricio Navas Izumi Yeh-Ling Prince Pal Singh Patricia Villanueva Joost van der Ree Bocr
50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration Six Revisions Skip site navigation 50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration Apr 10 2009 by Jacob Gube | 39 Comments A site’s navigation menu is one of the most prominent things that users see when they first visit. In this article, you’ll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration. 1. netdreams.co.uk 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. rzepak.pure.pl 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. csharpdesign.co.uk 36. 37. okb 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. toby-powell.co.uk 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Related content 39 Comments Alex April 10th, 2009 Here is another one: (top navigation) Kayla April 10th, 2009 Very cool menus. Jamiel Sharief April 10th, 2009 Nice collection. David April 10th, 2009 thx for sharing! Danny Hinde April 10th, 2009 Caroline April 10th, 2009 Great list – one missing – using tag clouds as part of navigation kayintveen April 10th, 2009 Tony Creamy CSS
50+ Gorgeous Navigation Menus Ease of navigation is one of the biggest keys to the usability of a website. If visitors can easily find what they are looking for they will be more likely to stay on the website rather than leaving and going to some other site. Effective navigation can help to increase pageviews, improve the user experience, and even increase revenue and profit. As more and more users are accessing sites via mobile devices, responsive web design has continued to increase in popularity. One of the challenges of designing and developing responsive websites is to create a user-friendly navigation menu that works equally well for visitors on all types of devices. While a few years ago navigational menus were a primary visual element in almost every web design, many responsive websites are now opting for a navigation menu that is much less dominant visually. In this post we’ll showcase 40 different navigation menus of responsive websites. Looking for hosting?
How to Design a Great User Interface When designing a web app, functionality is often placed above everything else. For the most part, this is a good thing. People (mostly) use apps because they’re useful, not because they look pretty. But that doesn’t mean you can ignore good UI design, or just slap together a generic-looking user interface. Good UI design adds to the overall user satisfaction of any web app. Good UI design is, in many ways, similar to good web design. Visitors won’t just be looking at your site; they’ll be interacting with it, sometimes in ways you didn’t expect. Below are a number of principles and ideas for designing a great user interface. Consistency is Vital In user interface design, consistency between pages, functions, and options is vital. For example, if on the home page for your application users navigate between pages with a top navigation bar, make sure that same top navigation bar appears on subsequent pages, and that the pages linked from it appear in the same order. Highlight Changes Shoply
70 Professional Fonts For All Design Life Situations Choosing the right fonts for your design is very important. This gives your viewers an impression on what you promote or convey. Choosing of fonts can also be an art, and fonts can also be in style. In this article, I will give you the best fonts you can download and use to make your designs look clean, professional but stylish. 1. by: Shawn Griswold To download Gris font, click here. 2. by: Lauren Thompson To download Champagne & Limousines font, click here. 3. by: haef To download Capsuula font, click here. 4. by: Gabriel Mark Perida To download Gabriel Serif font, click here. 5. by: eM-Vii aka Manuel Viergutz To download Hand Times font, click here. 6. by: The League of Moveable Type To download League Gothic font, click here. 7. by: Fresko Design To download Fresko font, click here. 8. by: arro To download Vegur font, click here. 9. by: Tension Type To download Leander font, click here. 10. by: Natapon Chantabut To download Thaitillium Improved font, click here. 11. by: Jan Paul 12. by: David Pache 13.
A Guide on Layout Types in Web Design One of the most variable aspects of web design is the way in which we approach width and height in terms of measurements and flexibility. For many years, we have rotated between the benefits and pitfalls of using fixed, elastic, and liquid measurements in a quest to give optimal viewing experiences in highly varied situations, while balancing our need to control things in our web pages. But, as Bob Dylan proclaimed a long time ago, "The times, they are a-changin’," and with these changes come a variety of new ways for laying out your website’s pages and an even more variable landscape of methods for viewing websites. In this article, we will examine web layout types — old, new, and the future. We will explore the subject in the context that websites are being viewed in a diverse amount of ways, such as through mobile phones, netbooks, and touchscreen personal devices like the iPad. About Your Options Let’s set our objectives for this exploration of layout types: Absolute Layouts Fixed Layout
15 Desktop & Online Wireframing Tools Like most things today, the world of interaction design moves quickly. Although a pen and notebook may suffice when it comes to simply jotting down ideas, planning a series of website screens can sometimes demand additional precision and cohesion. This is where today’s wireframing tools come in. Engineered to make the design process as intuitive as possible, these tools allow you to construct a visual representation of your interface. Some even allow designers to construct interactive prototypes in order to receive user feedback before a single line of code is written. Balsamiq Mockups Balsamiq MockupsBalsamiq Mockups enables a fluid and flexible design process, and is just as effective when adding smaller features to your page as it is when creating full-blown applications. GUI Design StudioFor Windows users only, GUI Design Studio is a comprehensive graphical user interface tool, handy when working on a variety of projects, from documenting product ideas to creating screen mock-ups.
Glossary A accent One of a variety of marks or symbols used with letters and phonetic symbols to indicate pronunciation or various special meanings, for example, to distinguish between words that would otherwise look and sound the same. Originally, referred to marks affecting only pronunciation; graphic arts professionals commonly use this term to refer to all diacritics. An accent may appear above, below, adjacent to, connected to, or through a letter. See also diacritic. aligning numerals See lining numerals. alignment In type design, the position of a character (or part of a character) in relationship to other typeface elements. alignment line, alignment guideline A line indicating where characters appear to line up or be positioned, serving in type design as a design aid. analog type Typefaces stored and reproduced through a method in which information is in a continuous form, as opposed to digital typefaces, which are represented in a computer by series of discrete numeric values. apex arm ascender