The State of Web Design Trends: 2011 Annual Edition
2010 has been an incredibly verdant year for web designers. Mobile has hit the mainstream; Web typography has reached new levels of sophistication; New coding techniques have vastly improved our ability to get creative with design (without compromising stability). All in all, it's been a year that's moved fast, even by the standards of the web, so let's dig in to our first annual post covering the state of web design as 2010 turns to 2011. The Death of the Fold The traditional "fold" (the imaginary line on a screen that designates what content is visible before a viewer needs to scroll) became vague, unimportant, and nearly irrelevant in 2010. Why?
Wallpaper Made of Tiny Stickers
Each wallpaper pattern is made up of thousands of hand-applied stickers, and can be removed and re-applied in any space. This multi-media exhibition is created by Brian Kaspr and Payton Turner. Link here. Thank you Thata Fabris for the link!
Background Generators
Using good background image in web design can really lift up a simple layout. Now the question is, how to generate interesting backgrounds for your website. There are many ways to achieve that, you can do it either a simple way or harder way. Simple way is to use online background generators, which can be used to make stripped, tiled, textured and dotted patterns. Here are 10 extremely useful background generators for designers, to have fun with. 1.
Celebrating the Art of the Doodle: 20 Awesome Doodles & Escape Into Life - StumbleUpon
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40 Generators for Designers
Online Generators for Web Designers can be a great way to save time in your web design projects. High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Online generator are those tools that help us to create those popular “XHTML valid” CSS banners, micro buttons or css website templates in seconds.
The Ultimate Photoshop Toolbox
Sep 07 2010 For years now, whenever designers have been asked about their go-to program for image editing and creation, one of the top answers that comes back, is Adobe Photoshop. Its generations of evolution has centered around the growth of any number of digital imaging professionals and has made this software giant a staple in the graphic design community.
30 Must See Web Generator
Here’s a list of 70 hand-picked, easy to use, and free web generators that will save you tons of time and energy. I have grouped these tools into 10 categories: Color Palettes, Robots.txt, Website Screenshots, Favicons, Web Backgrounds, Webpage Elements (buttons, tabs, etc), Memes, Forms, Logos, and Dummy Texts. The best part about these tools is that they are completely free (some need you to signup though). If you are looking ways speed up your work and channel more time and energy to new content ideas and marketing strategies, I believe the list is a must-bookmark.
30 Supercharged Free Photoshop PSD Files for Web Designers and Developers
Free PSD files are the friend of all designers, as they can save time for seasoned designers who need a lightbox, pagination, social media icons or other elements to use in their designs, and they are useful learning resources for beginning designers who want to see how to design such elements for themselves. Web developers can benefit as well, by using them to test individual effects such as jQuery sliders and jQuery toolips without having to design their own site. In this post, you’ll find 30 supercharged free Photoshop PSD files for web designers, developers and anyone else who wants to use them, that will boost your productivity and even make you a better designer. Need more free Photoshop resources? Check out these posts for free PSDs! Happy designing!
