Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Mar 14-Mar 20, 2010
Mar 21, 2010 General, Inspiration
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter , however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out. To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot 40 Logos Using Human Body Expressions http://bit.ly/a3Pie0 Breathtaking Aerial Photography by Arthus Bertrand http://bit.ly/dCHeBt HTML5 Rocks My Socks Off http://bit.ly/9UiiCq How Do You Do What You Do?
Tags: best of, designer, designerdepot, follow-us-designerdepot, naldz-graphics, twitter, week
Comics of the Week #17
Mar 20, 2010 General
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King , an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today. So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons .
Tags: comics-of-the-week-17, designer, funny, graphics, humor, illustrations, jerry-king, mr-self-serving, naldz-graphics
Best User Interface Design Resources: The Round-up
Mar 15, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
If you strive to be a great designer (like most), then you’re more than likely to know that a web application or websites success many times rely solely on how well designed the User Interface may be. As you scale the web and even read books, there can be an influx of misleading information pertaining to the way you should design your UI. When in reality you should do what works best for you and your users. Below you will find a variety of excellent User Interface resources that will allow you to access, redefine, and create a well designed User Interface.
Tags: Beautiful, Design, designer, download, illustration, Inspiration, interface, interface design, pattern, Tutorials, user, yahoo
Do You Have a jQuery Query? We Can Help!
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
jQuery as expected is a very popular tag on Answers . It is the greatest and possibly easiest Javascript framework to work with, but of course everyone at some point needs a little help with it or even just a query. Have you tried posting a jQuery question on Answers yet? All you have to do is post the question and when someone does answer your ‘jQuery query’ (I love the way that sounds!), you will receive an email notification, and hey presto your solution is there waiting for you! Couldn’t be easier, could it?
Tags: answers, code, design-news, designer, flash, html, Inspiration, jquery, photography, question, Resources, tools
How to Be Corporate and Still Be Creative
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration
If you’re like me, you graduated from art school and had dreams of working as an art director at a small agency. You envisioned having your own office on the top floor of a loft with 30-foot ceilings. Designers would play ping-pong below; people were allowed to drink beer at work; and brilliant ideas would flow effortlessly from your mind into multi-million-dollar campaigns for clients like Nike and Coca-Cola. In fact, you got a job at a large corporation and were shown to a desk in a sea of light-gray fabric-covered cubicles.
Tags: business, career, conclusion, corporate, creativity, Design, designer, naldz-graphics, power
5 Can’t-Miss Usability Tips for Mobile Website Designs
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Finding your way around a majority of the mobile websites that exist has become a nightmare with the lack of proper usability being implemented into their designs. This has caused the quality of designs (especially the mobile usability factor) to decrease on a larger scale when compared to the sites that not only practice good mobile aesthetics, but allow their users a smooth transition between the regular site to an enticing experience on their mobile devices. Because of the instability in a lot of the mobile web design information that is being distributed on the web, a lot of websites have very poor mobile interface designs. Below, we’re going to cover a few simple, yet prominent steps to designing a much more effective interface and increasing the quality of a mobile websites usability.
Tags: archives, article, contribute, designer, Designs, idesign-studios, Inspiration, march-11, Resources, spyre-studios, thoughts, Tutorials, usability, user, users
WordPress vs. ExpressionEngine: Apples and Oranges?
Mar 10, 2010 General, Inspiration
This post has been a long time coming. Whether on Twitter or in the blogosphere, the question often arises, and I have been asked numerous times for my opinion on the ExpressionEngine vs. WordPress debate, and why one would choose one content management system (CMS) over the other. My usual answer is that they cannot be compared.
Tags: advertising, article, changing-themes, content, custom, Design, designer, development, drupal, expression, expression-engine, Inspiration, user
How to Choose Right CSS Frameworks
Mar 10, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
CSS Frameworks allow you to rapidly improve and speed up your development time when used correctly, and provide a powerful way to style our websites and applications with flexibility and effectiveness. So How Do We Choose the Right One? The first step you need to take is to make sure you decide upon a framework that has an established and accurate representation of detailed documentation. This is vital to the steps you’ll take in implementing and utilizing your framework the way it was intended.
Tags: answers, cascading stylesheets, css framework, designer, freebies, Inspiration, Resources, tools, tutorial, Tutorials, vintage, wordpress-theme
4 exclusive premium vector packs FREE for our RSS readers!
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
For the webdesigners the freebies are really important because these files can help them to create a brilliant and perfect work faster and easier. On internet there are a lot of really brilliant graphic designers who share their works with the community, and it’s why we can find a lot of files on a website like coolvectors.com or vecteezy.com etc. But there is a problem (there is always a problem) in fact these files are totally free and it’s that problem, because each vector file is distributed on lot of different websites and all similar of them are downloaded many times! Actually if you work on a commercial website or if you just want to design a really exceptional and unique webdesign, you cannot use these free vector files . But of course a solution is available on the Internet, this solution is named premium vector pack! It’s the same kind of files but normally with higher quality, better design and especially these files are not distributed massively! Yes it is true, there is a problem with this solution (again a problem, you remember there is always a problem you have to pay these files to download them.
Tags: Design, designer, download, downloads, files, illustration, Inspiration, packs, photography, premium, search, Tutorials, vector files
Designers’ Confidence
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Guest article written by Paul Scrivens Originally I titled this article Designers’ Ego, but ego seems to have a negative connotation so I switched it to confidence even though I prefer to use the term ego instead. In the article I will use them interchangeably so please don’t think ego is the mean, pig-headed bully that we conjure up in our imaginations. It’s more the voice that picks you up off the ground and dusts your shoulders off so you can try again. Do you ever come to the point sometimes when you are designing and the design is just simply not working so you begin to wonder why you are even a designer or could even claim to be one?
Tags: article, Design, design-cubicle, designer, Inspiration, the-design-cubicle, Web Design
