Artist Spotlight: Capturing Modern Faces
Mar 21, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
We do it all the time … take snapshots of our loved ones. Any amateur photo-taker does so. The more interested, but perhaps not professional, photographer will focus on interesting people we see along the way in life (say while walking downtown or traveling abroad).
Tags: celebrity photography, design-photography, featured artist, interior, naldz-graphics, people-photography, photographic-art, professional photography, Resources, tools
Create Amazing 3D Ball Photo Album In Photoshop
Mar 17, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Family trips, holidays in distant lands, weekend trip to beaches? All good reasons to make our cameras go snapping’. And when we do get these pictures back on to our PC, here’s a unique way of making them into something totally cool! You will now learn how to make a 3D ball out of photos of… [This is a content summary only.
Tags: Design, image, Inspiration, photo, photo-album, photography, photoshop tutorial, Resources, tools
Selling UX to Small Business
Mar 16, 2010 General, Resources
It’s 2010 and everyone loves usability, right? It may may look that way from our comfortable perches atop the blogosphere, but if you’ve tried to sell usability services to small businesses, you know that it can be a frustrating and time-consuming experience. Illustration provided by Rachel Nabors Usability has come a long way in the past few years – small and medium businesses (SMBs) are finally beginning to "get it," and the tools of the trade are cheaper and more accessible than ever. This should be good news for companies and consultants selling services to small businesses, but if you’ve ever tried to sell to the SMB market, you know that it’s not quite that simple.
Tags: creativity, Design, financial, interview, people, podcasts, president, process & practice, research, small-business, stumbleupon, tools, ux-booth
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
27 Great Sci-Fi Digital Arts from Deviant Art
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials
Science fiction has been widely popular for years. Nowadays, technology enables graphic designers and digital artists to illustrate the fantasy of their imagination through digital arts. There are so many futuristic Sci-Fi concepts that have been created by several famous digital artists. They often use Maya and 3D Studio Max for initial modeling and Adobe Photoshop for final retouching.
Tags: development, deviant art, image, inspirational design, latest-tweets, picture, smashing-network, Tips & Tricks, tools, trends, Tutorials
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
India’s Web Industry: 30 Promising Indian Web Talents and Agencies
Mar 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials
India is a peninsula with the Arabian Sea to its west, the Indian Ocean to its south, and the Bay of Bengal on the east while in the north it shares borders with Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. A culturally rich country, India has the second largest population on earth with just 15% of the world population under its belt. With its large population, it is not surprising then that India is a country brimming with talented individuals. Looking at its long history of tolerance, India has been able to be accommodating towards variety in terms of culture, religion and social levels.
Tags: country, Design, india, indian-agencies, internet, promising-indian, source, talents, tools, Tutorials, Web 2.0
Global Design Tour: Turkey
Mar 7, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Join us as we take a trip around the world of graphic design: Next stop, Turkey. The country that connects Europe and Asia with a strip of land along the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Whether when it was Constantinople, or now as Istanbul, the largest city (but not the capital) of Turkey has long… [This is a content summary only.
Tags: berk-cankat, cansu-cender, flash, graphics, Inspiration, international design, murat-yksel, popular-posts, souloff, tamer-koseli, tools, turkey, turkish-designers, Tutorials
43 Essential Controls for Web Applications
Mar 6, 2010 General, Resources
Designing a web application? Familiarize yourself with Rich Internet Application technologies and the best UI controls for creating your application. Rich Internet Application technology has empowered us to create really amazing user experiences. The best RIAs on the web today rely on a discreet set of UI controls to provide a lively and timely experience.
Tags: article, control, facebook, frameworks, internet, plugin, presentations, Resources, roundups, silverlight, theresa-neil, tools, ux-booth
15 Quality Web-Based Applications to Create Mock-Ups and Wireframes
Mar 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
To effectively manage a project with very little mistakes, you must make it a priority to plan . Diving into the development process with not a single clue as to what elements go where or how certain aspects of a websites interface differ from one another is dooming yourself to hard-earned headaches. For as long as humans have been able to hold a pen and a paper in hand, we have been prototyping and although different from now, “ wireframing “. This dates back to thousands of years ago when architects and artists began converting their artwork into an actual physical presence.
Tags: based-applications, business, contribute, designer, Resources, spyre-studios, tool, tools, Tutorials, usability, wireframes
