Visual Hierarchy: How Well Does Your Design Communicate? The goal of visual design is to communicate. How you organize and prioritize your elements conveys valuable information about their relative importance. Visual hierarchy aids comprehension, reinforces your message, and guides your visitor through your story. Mobile app design considerations for web designers Everywhere you turn these days people are talking about mobile apps. Apps for this, apps for that. The statistics too, have been kind of staggering. One recent study by Flurry, showed that consumers spent 81 minutes per day using mobile apps, compared to 74 minutes of web surfing.
How To Make A Simple RSS Reader iPhone App Tutorial If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting! We'll make a multithreaded RSS reader in this tutorial! When making iOS apps that have to download data off of the Internet, you run into a lot of challenges. You have to: Write code to retrieve the data off of the network Write code to parse and interpret the data Write code to run the above in the background, so your app remains responsive Update your UI in an animated fashion as data arrives so the user can see what’s going on
Kids' Vid: Video Production for Students This is the process of writing down on paper what the video is about. Is your piece a comedy? A Drama? Best of 2008 – Graphic Design Tutorials As we arrive at the last month of yet another year, it’s time we revise and reflect on all the goodies this year had to offer. At the same time it’s great to practice the tips and lessons learnt for the years to come! We have brought together a series of what we feel are some of the best tutorials of 2008 from around the web. We’re starting off with the most useful graphic design tutorials of the past year. HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you're a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. You're undertaking something that's both simple and ambitious, and you're probably looking for a bit of help. But do you use one of the many do-it-yourself tools online, or do you call in a professional? If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency?
Edge: June 2010: Featured video In this video, Managing Editor Julie Campagna interviews Paul Gubbay, VP of engineering at Adobe, to get some perspective on HTML5: Is it ready for prime time? Who's using it and why? And how is the Dreamweaver(R) team supporting users who are eager to explore HTML5 today? Transcript.
Android App Developers GUI Kits, Icons, Fonts and Tools-Speckyboy Design Magazine Hot on the heels of our previous GUI article, iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, today we focus on Android development. The idea is the same: To help streamline your app design and development, with a fairly comprehensive collection of Android GUI kits, icons, fonts, .psds and tools, that will allow you to focus on developing rather than having to design everything from scratch. In comparison to Apples iPhone, the Android interaction design guidelines are far from being extensive nor are they as regimental. Androids guidelines are comprehensive and clear enough, yet they do allow a little room for some original design creativity – which is good. Of course, there is a reason why there are design guidelines, and they should not be abused (nice to be original though), the guidelines will help you to create a polished and uniformed experience for the user.
London World Record Panoramic Photo: See Big Ben, London Eye, Tower Bridge, and more than you can imagine. About this photo This is an 80-gigapixel panoramic photo, made from 7886 individual images. This panorama was shot from the top of the Centre Point building in central London, in the summer of 2010. We hope that the varied sights and energy of London have been captured here in a way never done before, so that you can experience one of the world's great cities - wherever you may be right now. To control this image, use the controls on the screen or click and hold your mouse button on the photo, and move your mouse around. To zoom in and out, use your mouse wheel, or the "Shift" and "Control" keys.
Make An iPhone, Android App Without Knowing A Line Of Code With JamPot's TheAppBuilder, you can build a genuine iPhone or Android app in mere minutes for free--according to the company's own website. The young company, savvy to the ever-shifting smartphone market, says it will soon support Windows Phone 7 too, meaning it'll address the market that RIM seems to be losing its grip on very fast according to new surveys on smartphone use. The idea behind TheAppBuilder, JamPot's VP of Sales Matthew David explained to Fast Company, is simple. By using its web interface, pretty much anyone, no matter their coding expertise, can create a smartphone app and have it running on their device within minutes. They're not web apps, not a clever HTML5 app-like experience--they're genuine native apps, optimized for each platform's particular foibles.
Free Online Multimedia Training Videos from the University of Westminster What is Multimedia Training Videos? Multimedia Training Videos is a series of completely free and open educational resources for learning a variety of multimedia and ICT tools. It was created by members of the MSc in Multimedia. 15 Nice Solutions for Free Contact Form Services There are many free options from which you can create a contact form for your website. The services usually offer both free service plans with less features and the paid ones which will remove the limitations and offer extra features. In this round-up, you’ll find the range of 15 free contact form services that allow you to create contact forms easily even without knowing much about PHP programming. Note that some of them may additionally have advanced premium options that actually require a monthly fee. Need contact form builders?
Building Flash Templates Flash templates provided by Jane Stevens, Val Krist and the staff of the Ventura County Star. Adobe Flash is a program used to display rich interactive animation and multimedia content on the Web. One of the main advantages of Flash is that it stores all of the information in a single file that can be easily integrated with most Content Management Systems. App Inventor: create your own application for smartphones Over the last few years Google has made great advances in mobile telephony. This global giant announced recently the launch of an App Inventor which allows users to create their own applications for smartphones. For this the users have to register on the official website forApp Inventor . It works on operating systems like Windows, Macintosh, Linux and across all major web browsers such as IE, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari. With this tool one can actually create an application without a smartphone with the help of an emulator. The entire tutorial for this tool is available on Googlelabs.