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Designing (and converting) for multiple mobile densities With Apple leading the movement, phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop displays are rapidly increasing in resolution. This is wonderful for everyday mobile users, as the quality of their device screens become sharper and allow them to better experience the finer details of an application. But this creates an interesting challenge — designing for multiple mobile densities. Understanding densities The sharpness of your phone or tablet’s display is referred to as density. iOS devices measure density in PPI (pixels per inch) and Android in DPI (dots per inch). As mobile hardware evolves, so does the quality of screens. View full size As illustrated above, there are five widely used densities across iOS and Android devices, which fall into four progressively larger groups: - non-retina (iOS) and mdpi (Android)- hdpi (Android)- retina (iOS)- xhdpi (Android) The lower densities will grow old over the next few years, eventually removing themselves from mobile design and build requirements.

Showcase Workshop - Presentations for IPad and Android tablets Padlet – A Collaborative Tool for Building Webpages « AppVita Looking at a blank piece of paper brings all types of possibilities to mind. Padlet is an application that brings that same freedom and flexibility to online publishing, giving people a way to create their own multimedia websites without relying on the templates and other constraints that usually tie people down. The sky is the limit, in terms of what you can use Padlet to create. Click “Build a wall” when you’re ready to begin, then get started by dragging any file from your desktop right onto your blank Padlet canvas. Sharing your Padlet page with others is easy. Practical Uses: Post classroom files for students to download at homeDesign a tribute page where anyone can post words of appreciation for local heroesCollect photos from anyone who was in attendance at a particular eventCreate a story outline with writing colleagues Insider Tips: What we liked: What we didn’t like: Nothing Alternatives: Company Info: Costs: Free

Status Magic DPI love ♥ Easily find the DPI/PPI of any screen POP - Prototyping on Paper | iPhone App Prototyping Made Easy The 20 Best OS X Apps for Designers & Web Developers Building websites on Mac OS X provides a completely different landscape in comparison to Windows or Linux. The applications are designed much differently and built from a different standard of programmers. Not to mention the enormous Mac App Store which offers immediate downloads for software you can purchase right away. In this collection I am focusing on the 20 most useful OS X apps worth downloading for web design/development purposes. Coda Sketch Fontcase CodeKit Gitbox Espresso Slicy Antetype Transmit Sequel Pro Kaleidoscope CSS3 Toolkit Xscope Logoist VirtualHostX LiveReload On The Job PHPStorm Alfred HTTP Client

13 Beautiful Online Stores That Were Designed to Sell The perfect online store should look absolutely stunning and provide customers with a comfortable shopping experience. These stores are doing it right eCommerce websites are changing the way people shop. Shopping on online stores has many advantages: You get to save time and effort; you can easily compare different brands and vendors; not to mention that in many cases it will save you some money as well. Online stores are no longer considered attractive only for offering a more comfortable alternative to the shopping mall. In the past few months, we implemented many improvements and new features to our eCommerce platform, including the amazing Shopify app. Want to see it with your own eyes? Tuktu Paper Co. The Kama Photography Urban Affaire Preston Tucker LLC Miranda Antonio Lila Giving Hope Art Bay Speckled Wood Art Museum Adrian Blair LeFaye Products Hype Clothing Tagged with: eCommerce .

Mountain Lion’s New File System by Oliver Reichenstein Apple has been working on its file system and with iOS it had almost killed the concept of folders — before reintroducing them with a peculiar restriction: only one level! With Mountain Lion it brings its one folder level logic to OSX. What could be the reason for such a restrictive measure? Classic folder systems don’t perform too well. Folders-in-folders don’t work The folder system paradigm is a geeky concept. Folders tend to grow deeper and deeper. Folders-in-folders are hard to deal with. Even geeks can’t handle folders in folders I am a geek myself, and even a specialist in organizing complex clusters of information, but my own file systems always sucked. …and yet I hate, always hated, and always will hate thinking about organizing files. Some might argue that the reason why I hated naming and organizing folders on my computer was not in spite but because I am an information architect. The beauty of search and sort Default folders help The Document Library iCloud

Retinize It - Photoshop actions for slicing retina graphics