Tips For A Finely Crafted Website | Smashing UX Design Good Web designers know what many others might not realize: that creating a truly beautiful website requires care, time and craft. And similar to how a craftsperson molds their creation by combining raw materials, skill and unwavering focus on the vision, a beautiful design is […]
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3 Quick Ways to Show Attention to Detail in Web Design | Design Shack With today’s current design trends I’m of the view that attention to detail is perhaps the most important part of any design, be it web or print. In this article, I’m going to exhibit a few examples of designs on the […]
Defining And Applying Personas to UX Design | Webdesigntuts Personas have long been integrated with UX documentation. They help us create fictional users, representative of our real users, which we can reference throughout our creative process to inform and validate our design and UX. Let’s examine how we set up a persona and then utilize […]
15 Gorgeous Mobile UI Designs for Your Inspiration Just like learning to code, the best way to improve as a designer is to learn by doing. Still, that’s not to say that admiring and even copying (aka practicing) great work can’t do wonders. More than anything, seeing what other designers have done in the past […]
Interface Trends for Designing a Social Network at DzineBlog.com – Design Blog & Inspiration Since the initial launch of Friendster in 2002 we have seen dozens of new social networks cropping up everywhere. There are the obvious popular choices such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. But we don’t often consider some of the newer […]
Line That Up: Proper Alignment in Web Design | Codrops Proper alignment of elements and text on your website greatly impact the overall design. Meticulous alignment of elements, such as images and text blocks, adds an extra level of professionalism to your site and is visually appealing and calming. Choosing the proper alignment for text […]
Mobile Considerations in User Experience Design: “Web or Native?” Our brand new Smashing Books #3 and #3⅓ have been released last month and we’re sincerely grateful for the tremendous feedback, reviews and photos submitted by our truly smashing readers across the world. We appreciate your time and your interest, and thank you for your support and love. […]
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Interaction Design In The Cloud
Interaction Design In The Cloud Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to represent various UI elements. Many of us cannot imagine life without them.
Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead In my nearly two decades as an information architect, I’ve seen my clients flush away millions upon millions of dollars on worthless, pointless, “fix it once and for all” website redesigns. All types of organizations are guilty: large government agencies, Fortune 500s, not-for-profits and (especially) institutions of […]
EXPERIMENTAL PAGE LAYOUT INSPIRED BY FLIPBOARD Today we want to share an experimental 3D layout with you. It’s inspired by the famous Flipboard app where a seamlessly “normal” page flips like a page in a book when swiped. We’ve tried to re-create that effect using CSS 3D transforms and JavaScript, making a layout that is “flippable” and […]