Why Great Designs Aren’t Always Enough: The Importance of AB Testing
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
There’s a famous story in the design world about Google, who tested 41 different shades of blue . It’s often shown as an example of why AB split testing is bad or excessive, and why designers should just be allowed to just do their own thing (that’s what they get paid for, right?). But using Google’s obsession to prove that testing is always bad does a disservice to the medium. Testing can be an essential tool for web designers who may occasionally forget that design can’t just be beautiful: it must be functional as well. Testing 41 shades of blue might seem excessive, but testing blue versus purple link colors will show you exactly why there are some design standards that shouldn’t be altered.
Tags: ab testing, articles, Inspiration, iphone, testing, Tutorials, Web Design
DepositPhotos Giveaway – $100 to 2 Lucky Readers
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Tweet DepositPhotos is a stock photography and illustration marketplace. They’re pretty new to the scene but already they have a massive amount of photos and vectors in their catalog. In fact they currently have over 1.8M files in various categories ! We’ve partnered with them to give away 2 accounts, each with $100 credit . Read on to see how you can enter! A Little More About Deposit Photos DepositPhotos is a huge marketplace where people can buy and sell high-quality royalty-free photos and vectors.
Tags: boxed-in-design, images, Inspiration, nice-pic-eh, pavel-selivanov, popular-articles, poster-printing, Resources, Tutorials
Funkrush Blackrock Collective Card Deck + Abduzeedo Discount
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
We have been showing Funkrush stuff several times but this one deserves another article. 54 artistic little designs for your enjoyment are the reason for todays Funkrush promotion. <!–break–> I hear you asking, “What is this I see before me? Playing cards, or 54 little pieces of art?” The result of hours of doodling, squabbling, and sanding every card by hand has produced this diverse and beautiful card deck.
Tags: collective, Design Inspiration, facebook, fireworks-tutorials, gimp-tutorials, illustration, Inspiration, interview, iphone wallpapers, photography, wallpaper, wallpapers
Typography Mania #45
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. <!–break–> Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer. Submit your Typography work From now on you can submit your typography mania piece by adding your image to Abduzeedo’s Flickr Group and use the tag Typography Mania . I will search through and handpick the best pieces every week.
Tags: Design, Design Inspiration, gimp-tutorials, illustrator tutorials, Inspiration, Typography, typography-mania
Snowflakes Photography Inspiration
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
One of these days I was doing a search for images of nature on Flickr and DevianART and was really impressed with the photos I found of snowflakes. Snowflakes are agglomerates of frozen ice crystals falling through the atmosphere on Earth (Wikipedia). What really attracted me in the snowflakes is the fact that each has a unique, harmonic and almost perfectly symmetrical shape. It’s for sure one of the most inspiring, different and beautiful source of inspiration found in nature.
Tags: architecture, charlesimages, Design Inspiration, gimp-tutorials, illustration, Inspiration, iphone wallpapers, nature, photography, Photoshop Tutorials, snowflakes, Tutorials, wallpaper, wallpapers
Designing and Producing Creative Business Cards: Techniques and Details
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Plenty of creative business card showcases are available out there. Many of these are beautifully done and well thought out, and they serve as inspiration for those who would like their business card to be more than the standard rectangular piece of paper. Yet little explanation accompanies these examples, and figuring out just how to bring your idea to life can be overwhelming, to say the least. This guide is meant to help you decide which technique is right for you, how to correctly prepare the files and what to look for in a printer.
Tags: artwork, business, business card, Design, file, image, Inspiration, printer, technique, techniques, Web Design
Showcase of Amazing Vector Art
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Seeing what are designers are doing can be a great source of inspiration and motivation. Today we’re featuring vector designs, and this post includes more than 30 for your own inspiration. This showcase includes vectors of people, cars, and other objects. Pepper Vector Goldfish Turn On Super Lucky Nintendo Adriana Lima 2F2F Skyline Hamasaki Eiffel Tower Alyson Hannigan Blood Sweat Vector Saleen S7R Look Away Cassandra Rachel Nichols Harlequin Johnny Depp As Good As It Gets Poster Jessica Alba Communion Self Portrait TV Kills Everything Vector Fun Vectors Eat Toast Too Parrot of the East Free Dodge Viper Poster Dijean Neo Alessandra Illustration Dodge Challenger The Renegade Milk Shakespeare Witch For more design inspiration please see: Design Inspiration: Graffiti Art Showcase Showcase of “Green” Typography Showcase of Buttons in Web Design Beautiful Vintage Design: Showcase and Resources Design Inspiration: Brochure Design Showcase
Tags: church-websites, Design Inspiration, ecommerce, galleries, Inspiration, jessica-alba, johnny-depp, learn-photoshop, photo, Photoshop, portfolio-sites, Unique, Websites
Cyber Bullies – The Terminators of the Design Community
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Not everyone has been mistreated by a school yard bully. However, everyone knows bullying exists. Bullying is not restricted by age or environment and doesn’t necessarily have to be a physical altercation to be considered bullying. In fact, designers and developers are also prone to bullying – cyber bullying .
Tags: article, articles, build-internet, bully, crime, cyber-bullies, development, freelancing, Inspiration, internet, people, Resources, Tutorials, Web Design
How to Create a Wall Graffiti of Bob Marley
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
We’re are going to immortalize the iconic Bob Marley on a brick wall – graffiti style. Graffiti has come a long way to the point that its argued by some to be respectable works of art for it was and still is considered as rude and destructive in the public sphere. On count, it is highly expressive and does lend to images/text powerful forms representation.Same goes for this tutorial where we’ll be applying Layer masks and Blend modes to merge a grunge-like image of Bob Marley with a brick wall. Step 1 Start with a Bob Marley picture of your choice.
Tags: blend, brick, css, Design, design-reviver, designer, illustrator, Inspiration, Photoshop, picture, Resources, tutorial, Tutorials, Web Design
Amazingly Unbelievable Pixel Art of eBoy
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
This time we’ll be looking at some absolutely amazing example of pixel art: the work of eBoy from Berlin, which is actually a group of artists that collaborate for their extraordinary pixel art projects: Kai Vermehr , Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital . We should start by discussing what pixel art represents: it is a special type of digital illustration, because it is created using a raster graphics software and it actually means painstaking detail-work for every image- it must be edited at pixel level! This type of graphics is usually used in computer and video games, or mobile phone games. However, we are going to look at a group of artists who have managed to create extremely detailed compositions using pixel art and have deservedly broken into the fields of advertising or magazine illustrations as well. The works in this collection are first of all the result of a long and elaborate creation process.
Tags: article, compilation, custom, Design, download, eboy, illustration, Inspiration, pixel art, Tutorials, Web Design
