The Shapes of CSS Learn Development at Frontend Masters CSS is capable of making all sorts of shapes. Squares and rectangles are easy, as they are the natural shapes of the web. Add a width and height and you have the exact size rectangle you need. Add border-radius and you can round that shape, and enough of it you can turn those rectangles into circles and ovals. We also get the ::before and ::after pseudo elements in CSS, which give us the potential of two more shapes we can add to the original element. Square Rectangle Circle Oval Triangle Up Triangle Down Triangle Left Triangle Right Triangle Top Left Triangle Top Right Triangle Bottom Left Triangle Bottom Right Curved Tail Arrow via Ando Razafimandimby Trapezoid Parallelogram Star (6-points) Star (5-points) via Kit MacAllister Pentagon Hexagon Octagon Heart via Nicolas Gallagher Infinity via Nicolas Gallagher Diamond Square via Joseph Silber Diamond Shield via Joseph Silber Diamond Narrow via Joseph Silber Cut Diamond via Alexander Futekov Egg Pac-Man Talk Bubble TV Screen Lock
Stop designing for screen width, design for content 320, 768 and 1024. Do these numbers mean anything to you? No, it’s not the Da Vinci code, they are the widths in pixels that many designers associate with mobile, tablet and desktop screen widths. The problem I have with this is that my mobile isn’t 320 pixels wide, my tablet isn’t 768 pixels wide and my desktop screen certainly isn’t 1024 pixels wide. There are hundreds of different screen sizes out there on a variety of different devices and yet we still think of responsive web design as 320, 768 and 1024. What happens to all those screen sizes in between? I have seen many sites that use these three breakpoints for their designs and simply create 3 static layouts that centre within the nearest width. This is better than having an old fashioned, static, desktop only site as they are at least serving a one column, simplified version for mobile and a touch friendly version for tablet but then why would you alienate all other screen sizes by not taking them into consideration? Content is king
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Principles of User Interface Design Clarity is job #1 Clarity is the first and most important job of any interface. To be effective using an interface you've designed, people must be able to recognize what it is, care about why they would use it, understand what the interface is helping them interact with, predict what will happen when they use it, and then successfully interact with it. While there is room for mystery and delayed gratification in interfaces, there is no room for confusion. Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator Color Hex - ColorHexa.com 10 User Interface Design Fundamentals It’s no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way. Free trial on Treehouse: Do you want to learn more about web design? Click here to try a free 14-day trial on Treehouse. ‘Staying out of the way’ means not distracting your users. Rather, good UIs let your users complete goals. The result? Check out our other design courses at Treehouse. When getting started on a new interface, make sure to remember these fundamentals: 1. “Obsess over customers: when given the choice between obsessing over competitors or customers, always obsess over customers. Your user’s goals are your goals, so learn them. 2. Users spend the majority of their time on interfaces other than your own (Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, Bank of America, school/university, news websites, etc). CoTweet uses a familiar UI pattern found in email applications. 3. Your users need consistency. 4. 5. 6. No matter how clear your design is, people will make mistakes. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Le BlogDuWebdesign booste l'inspiration des intégrateurs #9 - ressources-integration Pas d'idées pour votre menu original? Aujourd'hui, le Blog du Webdesign vous propose une sélection de 15 menus pour booster votre créativité Le menu d'un site n'est pas quelque chose à prendre à la légère. Il se doit d'être pratique, ergonomique et réactif, mais aussi beau, car c'est l'élément avec lequel votre visiteur interagira le plus. Un joli et bon menu laissera donc une impression positive, et un menu peu pratique ou pas très beau laissera une impression désagréable. Pour vous aider à faire les bons choix, et avoir des idées pour de jolis menus originaux, découvrez donc cette sélection de 15 menus déjà intégrés. Menus en Dropdown Menus verticaux Menus Horizontaux Menus Sortant de l'écran quand non utilisés Menus Inclassables
20 Mobile User Interface Design for Your Inspiration Designers of mobile interfaces are becoming more prominent in today’s faced-paced web space. While mobile-optimized sites may lighten the burden on a site developer, some prefer building a full featured app instead. App designers and developers are in high demand now particularly in user interface. UI design focuses on user experience and interaction, and while being easy-to-use is important, an attractive yet still practical design is essential to the success of an app. Today I’d like to show you some mockups, sketches, buttons, tables, splash screens, and many more examples of iPhone app (UI) designs for your inspiration. Recommended Reading: Design Killer Mobile App Websites: Tips And Examples
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Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App Advertisement Like most well-designed things, the magic of an iPad app comes from a union of usefulness, usability and meaning. Games aside, the app must be useful by solving a problem that people actually have through the right set of functionality at the right time. We’ve excluded tips that have already been mentioned in every single iPad design article ever written (such as, “Invite users to touch by presenting real-world metaphors in a skeuomorphic interface” —look it up!). Take A Goal-Oriented Approach To Simplify Functionality. Good iPad apps are about simplicity and doing a few things well. For example, Epicurious does an excellent job of giving the multi-tasking cook exactly what they need. Epicurious provides a clean interface for recipes, with an orange marker to keep your place. By contrast, the Whole Foods app starts off being helpful by letting you add recipe ingredients to a shopping list. Whole Foods should enhance its app by merging duplicate list items. Zite: top left.
App Design DOs & DON’Ts | Team Think Labs App Design DOs & DON’Ts Apps are taking over the world and with the continual growth of the App market, it is important to keep in mind some of the basic rules to live by when designing and developing a mobile app. Here are some important things to keep in mind. Simplify Functionality The easier the app is to use, the more the user will want to use it. Consider the Thumb Range and Size When designing an app, keep in mind the range of the thumb. Touch, not Click Always keep in mind touch and gesture functionality when designing for an app. Visual Consistency As in any brand design project, make sure you maintain visual consistency across the board. Mobilize not Minimize Designing for a mobile app doesn’t mean you are designing a miniature website. Don’t Start with Low Resolutions Always design for retina, high-res, pixel-dense screens first, then scale down. iOS Resolutions iPad 1x1024×768 iPad 2x (Retina) 2048×1536 iPhone 1x (4s, 3GS, 2g) 480×320 960×640 (Retina) iPhone 2x (5) 1136×640