Pugly Pixel Blog Overcast and cloudy, or rather, "Mostly Cloudy," is the forecast that I pray for as I squint into my iPhone weather app at 5:30 every morning. But, just my luck, I usually get "Sunny" or "Partly Cloudy", which usually turns out to be "Mostly Sunny". Oh, but not so today, my friends. The UI Guide | Part 1: Buttons » Galpin Industries - Pixels Straight From Canada I should begin by explaining why I’m doing this guide in the first place. I believe that every designer has a right to know what many of us have learned via trial-and-error and word-of-mouth teachings. I’m quite aware that this is not the first UI guide that has ever been published, nor do I expect it to be the last. I do believe it might be one of the first to really attempt to explain the why in parallel with the how. Probably the most crucial thing to understand is that simply knowing how to make and style these elements does not make one a designer. I’ll be covering several different types of elements, and each post will be continually updated as I receive more suggestions for content and as I get more time to develop the article. General Photoshop Tips Global Light: Make sure your Global Light is set to 90 degrees, rather than the default 120 degrees. Button Styles Glossy Ah yes, the old standby. Glossy with glow Textured If used correctly, this style can look really sharp. Simple Mr.
Design with Intent Toolkit Fensišmensi blog | Crash Course: Design for Startups I recently stumbled across screenshots of old websites of mine and was hurled into a state of reminiscent shock. I knew they were bad, but wow they were outstandingly horrible (redeemed only by their microformats support! I kid, I kid). I have yet to consider myself a real designer and there are quite a few things I would do differently with my most recent work on Notifo and Pic A Fight. I have been brainstorming for the past few days about how to scope this article. What I can do is share what has worked for me. Subtle is key! When I was a wee pixel pusher I would overuse whatever graphic effect I had just learned. You can imagine how horrible everything looked. Then what do I mean about "except when it's not"? Get Inspired and Stay Thirsty My Friends Organized This is not a new concept by any means, but it bears repeating: keep the right side of your brain engaged by regularly seeking great website designs, reading about design, sketching site layouts (or anything really) and more.
Design with Intent | Design and human behaviour 22 Killer Personal Development Resources You're Missing Out On You’ve got the personal development itch once again. You know the feeling. Maybe you want to be more productive, finally tackle that goal of yours, or start waking up earlier. So you go to Google or your favorite personal development blogs. And that’s it. Sometimes you find what you need, but you still have a sense that there’s got to be more. And that’s where you get stuck. Today I hope to change that by sharing with you 22 of the killer personal development resources you’re missing out on. 1. I know, you thought Reddit was just for gamers, atheists, and students – but that’s a misconception. 2. Mindbloom.com is a nifty personal development web application. 3. Lately, it seems there have been hundreds of eLearning websites popping up across the web. 4. There are plenty of ways to motivate you to work out, but the app Gympact does something quite clever and unique. Okay, so plenty of you know Ted already, but do you remember the first day you discovered it? 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14.
shadow performance Update: I've added some comments about the -[CALayer shadowPath] approach that I missed before. I've just pushed a new sample to the OmniGroup? source on github which shows several drop shadow approaches, with an eye towards performance, particularly while the shadow casting object's frame is being animated. One of these is a pair of functions vended by OmniUI, OUIViewAddShadowEdges?() and OUIViewLayoutShadowEdges?(), which originate from writing our document picker. Opening up OmniGroup/Frameworks/OmniUI/iPad/Examples/DropShadowOptions? Animation Type Resize: The size of the object changes, possibly leading to it being redrawn. Animation Driver One-time change: Some one-time programatic change is being made to the object that has a starting and ending state. Shadow Options CoreGraphics, resampled: This renders the shadow into the view's content area with normal CoreGraphics calls. Performance I'll call out the one "Slowish" result; this timed at ~45fps on my iPad. Conclusions
f r a u s i e b e n | I tell my stories with pictures. © 2014 Trixi. All rights reserved. This sunday started quite early in our sunny kitchen, preparing green smoothies and delicious coffee for each of us. Then I took the car for a 30 minutes drive though the beautiful city, heading to the BESONDERSschön market at the … Continue reading We had such a lovely sunday. I try to appreciate every season but I can easily say that spring is the one I like the most. Some more impressions of my trip to Berlin at the first weekend of the year. Teguise is the former capital city of Lanzarote with a lovely historical city center and lots of nice little restaurants. One of the reasons why I liked Lanzarote is the architecture and the influence of César Manrique, who appealed to build houses in harmony with nature. My first short trip this year was going to Berlin. I didn’t know much about Lanzarote before, but I heard a lot about the black and maybe even boring landscape. These are just some moments of our last week of 2013. © 2013 Trixi.
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