a look at design for the web & all it entails
Can’t believe this is our last day before the summer… how time flies. Wishing you all a brilliant, creative and productive summer with lots of inspiration! Can’t wait to see your final masterpieces when you come back :)
Here are a few photos ~ not the best of quality but this is all about memories :)
As web workers, be that designers or developers, it is our job to create not only engaging user experiences but also to ensure an all inclusive design and setup. Making sure our content is presented in the most accessible and easy way will liberate our user to use the web freely and without hinderance, a benefit to all.
continue reading »And another few principles for you to ponder over and work with. Do have a look at the sites mentioned in the slides.
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Artist (Heather Hansen) Tracks Her Own Kinetic Movement Directly Onto Paper - My Modern Metropolis
Let's take a look at some established as well as popular graphic design principles and their possible inspiration for design for the web. While working on your current project, pause your initial design process and consider how some of these established concepts might add to your approach.
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WordPress… how I love you ❤
I'm really looking forward to taking you all through the theme design today ~ let's see how beautiful your blogs will become once you start creating your own themes :)
Colour is a topic which never ceases to inspire great discussion about interpretation, meaning and effect within design. As subjective as colour can be – it is our job as designers to be mindful of implications as well as consider colour vision deficiency in our creation of colour schemes for use in interface and web design. continue reading »
image info: “how keys work”, via tweet from @Cennydd
How do you design an interface which is not only easy to use, works well across all screens and is aesthetically appealing as well?
Like a key to open a lock, your UI needs to give access to the content without bothering the user with the complexities which might lie beneath :)
image & video: courtesy of Oregon Live
The famous and successful Nike swish is a wonderful example of how effective simplicity can be.
Read more about this story:
Creator of Nike’s famed Swoosh remembers its conception 40 years later
Icons are the small little details with such high importance that they deserve as much TLC as the rest of your design. If you search for icon sets online, you will find an ever growing number of beautiful sets to choose from. However, it will be worth your while to at least explore icon design, if not learn the craft in depth.
Icon design is challenging but fun ~ so take some time to dive into it and you'll soon have beautiful icons making your site designs shine ;)
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A little page to wish you all the very best for 2014 :-)
