OpenType OpenType® is a modern font format developed by Adobe® and Microsoft® to provide users with an accessible and advanced typographic toolset. OpenType improves on PostScript and TrueType just as the DVD trumped the video cassette. When deciding what format to choose, using the latest technology simply makes sense, but let’s dig a bit deeper and explore the ways OpenType makes life easier for typographers and graphic designers. OpenType is Efficient One Style = One File The PostScript format is limited to 256 characters per file. Based on Unicode, an OpenType file can contain up to 65,535 characters or glyphs. As a concrete example of the efficiency of the OpenType format, compare the multilingual PostScript version of FF Meta 1, a package of four type styles, with its OpenType successor. Narrow this example down to a single style (FF Meta Book), and we can see that the glyphs and metrics from several PostScript files are all included in one OpenType file. Mac and PC Compatible What’s Inside?
of Action - You're already a pretty good designer I'm a seasoned hacker that is able to tackle immensely complex problems with aplomb. I'm able to untangle spaghetti code and weave it into beautiful patterns. I envision systems and code them with the same grace a jazz pianist improvises music.But I can't design for my life. I've heard this story a couple of times in the ten years I've been working with programmers. The programmers' approach to building a cathedral would involve using his tools and raw materials in order to build more advanced objects. Our craftsman follows the architect's plans religiously, and painstakingly chisels every stone so that every brick fits in perfectly. Once finished, he steps back and mesmerized by the beauty of it all, he thinks 'Hey, I built this cathedral all by myself, perhaps if I tried designing my own cathedral I'd get all the praise, instead of this lazy hack who just handed me the layout and waited for it to be built'. 1. I'm a designer by trade, I have a degree in Information Design. 2. 3.
Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory Lucius Annaeus Seneca60 AD Among the numerous faults of those who pass their lives recklessly and without due reflexion, my good friend Liberalis, I should say that there is hardly any one so hurtful to society as this, that we neither know how to bestow or how to receive a benefit. It follows from this that benefits are badly invested, and become bad debts: in these cases it is too late to complain of their not being returned, for they were thrown away when we bestowed them. Formation UX/UI design - Certificat Ergonomie des interfaces La formation UX/UI Design, Ergonomie des interfaces, vise à garantir les compétences de professionnels impliqués dans la conception d’interfaces : chefs de projets, développeurs, webdesigners, responsables marketing etc. L’objectif de cette certification est de permettre à ces professionnels d’acquérir les outils méthodologiques de l’ergonomie digitaleet de la conception centrée utilisateur. Cette montée en compétence leur permettra de piloter efficacement le développement ou la refonte d’interfaces qu’elles soient logicielles, web, ou mobiles et tactiles. Notre certificat est inscrit à l’Inventaire de la Commission Nationale de la Certification Professionnelle (CNCP).
FFFFALLBACK - A simple tool for bulletproof web typography. Making the Transition from Development to Design—My Experience and Advice A couple months ago, a person emailed me asking for tips for transitioning to design from a development background. As someone who had loosely gone through the same path (from programming to design to programming then back to design), I wanted to share any advice I could possibly give. After writing the letter, I thought it may be useful to a few other people out there. So if you are a developer looking to get into design, this is written specifically for you. To preface, this article is not why developers can be good designers. This article does a great job of articulating those ideas. Remember, these are tips based on my personal philosophy and things that have shaped my approach. Tip #1: Don’t stop building things It will not be long before anyone designing software will require an understanding of how to make software. It is important to keep your development skills honed. Tip #2: Learn design in order of dependency These steps gradate from the rational to the emotional.
Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley User Experience Project iOS Fonts Should I Work for Free? Google Visual Assets Guidelines - Part 1 on Behance Google’s brand is shaped in many ways; one of which is through maintaining the visual coherence of our visual assets. In January 2012, expanding on the new iconography style started by Creative Lab, we began creating this solid, yet flexible, set of guidelines that have been helping Google’s designers and vendors to produce high quality work that helps strengthen Google’s identity. What you see here is a visual summary of the guidelines, divided into two Behance projects: Google design style: Executive Creative Director: Chris Wiggins Graphic Designers: Jesse Kaczmarek, Nicholas Jitkoff, Jonathan Lee, Andy Gugel, Alex Griendling, Christopher Bettig, Jefferson Cheng, Roger Oddone, Yan Yan, Zachary Gibson Guideline design: Art Director / Team Manager: Christopher BettigSenior Graphic Designer / Project lead: Roger OddoneDesigners: Alex Griendling, Christopher Bettig, Jefferson Cheng, Roger Oddone, Yan Yan, Zachary GibsonContributors: Web Studio, Brand Team, Creative Lab
Qu'est ce que l'UX-DESIGN Pour mon premier article, il m’a semblé essentiel de vous expliquer ce qu’est l’UX-Design, en quoi consiste le métier d’UX Designer et dans quel périmètre il intervient. L’expérience utilisateur vient de l’anglais “User experience”, abrégé en UX. Il s’agit du ressenti émotionnel d’un utilisateur face à une interface, un objet ou un service. Les besoins du commanditaire ont très longtemps été les seuls pris en compte par les agences lors de la conception d’interface. On entendait souvent dire des phrases telles que « Le client n’aime pas la couleur des boutons verts, passon-les en bleu ». Ces changements souvent subjectifs pouvaient avoir un impact direct sur l’expérience vécue ensuite par l’utilisateur, alors perdu. L’UX-Design (User eXperience Design) est une discipline dont l’objectif est de concevoir un produit au service des utilisateurs. Ce processus se résume en cinq étapes : Rémi Taieb – UX Designer chez UX-REPUBLIC
Responsive Layouts, Responsively Wireframed Responsive layouts, responsively wireframed Made with HTML/CSS (no images, no JS*) this is a simple interactive experiment with responsive design techniques. Use the buttons top-right to toggle between desktop and mobile layouts. Using simple layout wireframes, this illustrates how a series of pages could work across these different devices, by simulating how the layout of each page would change responsively, to suit the context. Responsive layouts? Producing static wireframes to design layouts for websites, web applications and user-interfaces has worked well for a long time. However, this solution creates a new problem: How should we go about the process of designing these variable layouts? Enter, responsive wireframes? The 'wireframes' on this page (which are only very simple, high-level examples) were created with HTML/CSS, and some argue that this is the answer; to design in the browser. So which is better? Traditional wireframes? HTML? So, what's the answer? Just wondering...