Design matters.
Last Sunday, John Naughton published an article on The Guardian proclaiming “Graphic designers are ruining the web”, blaming highly aesthetic websites as the sole cause of slow and bloated webpages....
View ArticleA rationale for current design trends: an eye for detail, quality, and good...
Dribbble shots exemplifying current design trends (by Damjan Stankovic, Ryan Putnam, William Szilveszter, Zulal Ahmad, Nat Al-Tahhan, iconshock, Ashish Thakkar, Seth Nickerson, Matt Gentile) In the...
View ArticleGetting a sense of good typography with these web and iPhone games
Typography is quite the intimidating universe to get into, but even if you’re not a designer it’s worth understanding even just a fraction of its principles. Your end game, after all, is to create a...
View ArticleWould you win in the Dark Patterns Awards? Avoid these sneaky, black hat...
User Experience Designer Harry Brignull recently opened submissions for an event called the Dark Patterns Awards, with the goal of shining the spotlight of shame on companies and organizations that...
View ArticleResponsive Web, One Web, it’s the Web
Responsive Web Design, like the word “HTML5”, has entered buzzword territory even beyond the web development scene. The advantage, of course, is awareness and appreciation: more people want to know...
View ArticleCheap and Easy Ways to Give Your Restaurant a Facelift
Out with the old and in with the new is a common phrase people use when re-decorating. But what can you do with few materials and a small budget? Turns out, quite a lot. Give your restaurant a quick...
View Article5 Free Photo Editors For Viral Image Creation
Thanks to the exploding popularity of sites like Pinterest and Wanelo have shown that creating visual interpretations of content (like infographic creation), as well as substituting images for the...
View ArticleWhy You Need To Make Canva Your #1 Image Tool
Canva has been around for some years now but I only discovered it a few months ago and since then it has quickly become my go-to image and graphics tool and has saved me a lot of time asking our...
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