Make Your Own Google Buttons Creating the Standard Buttons Google has a new focus on webkit-specific properties thanks to their new Chrome browser, which uses a branch of the same rendering engine Safari uses. This has actually allowed them to target the Google homepage to the webkit engine, probably after some sort of browser detection. The buttons use the -webkit-gradient function, which takes in arguments for the gradient start and stop points as well as color and then creates what the browser basically considers an image. Scaling the Buttons Because these buttons are generated entirely with vector objects and borders they can be scaled to any size. We can use both -webkit-transform to scale the image up directly, outside the DOM (as in example 1) or by increasing the button dimensions, padding and font-size (as in example 2). Scaled Button Example 1: A button scaled using a transform, class="scaled" Large Button Example 2: A button scaled using a class="large" with more padding, larger font size. Buttons with Color
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Free Download — Free UX Sketching And Wireframing Templates For Mobile Projects Today we are happy to release two printable UX sketching and wireframing templates, designed by Pixle81 for Smashing Magazine’s readers. This article presents Outline, a set of sketching and wireframing papers for mobile platforms and Tapsize, a set of templates for checking optimal tap areas without a mobile device. Outline Outline is a set of 28 printable sketching and wireframing papers (in PDF) for seven mobile platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iOS (iPad and iPhone), Meego, Symbian, webOS, Windows Phone 7. Note: Print the sheets at actual size (i.e. do not resize). As a bonus, Outline includes an Illustrator file displaying the mobile devices. Outline paper set Windows Phone 7 and 8 panorama template Android 4.x template Tapsize With Tapsize, you can determine the optimal tap area without having an actual device. Tapsize paper set Calculating the grid Checking the optimal tap area for the Google Nexus 7 tablet. Behind the Design Download The Set For Free Download the package7 (ZIP, 2 MB).
Editorially Wants to Redesign Writing For The Web Where do you do most of your writing? It’s probably in a blogging dashboard (also known as a CMS), a plaintext editor, or Microsoft Word. If you do a lot of writing in any of these environments—say, for your job—you also know that all of them suck. Why? Because they were all designed for something other than “making it as easy and effective as possible to create and edit written content intended for digital publication.” First, the problem that Editorially was founded to solve: None of the aforementioned apps, says Brown, “understands what an editorial work flow looks like now.” Brown and her team (which includes digital-editorial design all-stars like Jason Santa Maria and Ethan Marcotte) created Editorially to give digital authoring “its own space,” unhindered by the peccadilloes of coding, formatting, displaying, tagging, and other noise. First, the writing part. Markdown is a set of ultrasimple typographic conventions that converts plaintext into clean HTML. [Check out Editorially]
5 Smart Apps to Create Prototypes on Your iPhone and iPad App prototyping models offer a fast and intuitive platform for designers to design smarter apps. This article gives 5 intuitive prototyping tools to build, run and share better apps. 5 Intuitive Tools To Create iPad and iPhone App Prototypes In 2013 The hardest part of an app development is from conceptualization to testing and implementation. In other words, the entire process is tricky and cumbersome for designers and developers alike. Not any more, the below list of app prototyping tools will re-define the way you think, work and build apps. iMockup iMockup for iPad offers a premium mobile wire framing and mockup web app. Realizer As the name suggests the app helps you realize the need and to create your very own presentation prototypes. POP – Prototyping on Paper POP helps to create extremely interactive prototypes in a quick and easy way. Blueprint This is a simple to use app builder that lets you develop, run and share your app. Mockabilly To sum it up