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Characteristics of a modern portfolio site
An extensive and excellent collection of portfolio sites, mainly for designers and developers. Still, food for inspiration… Of all of the types of websites, the portfolio site has to overcome what might be some of the most difficult hurdles. Talk to almost any designer and they will agree, launching your own portfolio site is a [Continue reading]
Playing with Lego helps you create better websites, apparently
I need to think of a service like this, but with Playmobil… :) Can playing with Lego help you design better websites? A new, entirely serious, document from a Swiss team claims it can. URL – User Requirements with Lego is a process that creative teams can go through to help work out the best [Continue reading]
A CRAP way to improve usability
Here is an excellent introduction to core values of good design. Read it and check which apply to your site :) Good visual design offers more than improving people’s attitudes to a design. Good visual design will actually make interfaces easier to use. There are at least four key principles of visual design that have [Continue reading]
Designing UX Exchange
An excellent case study of designing for the Web. Most often web designs start with a let’s-make-something-pretty concept instead of first realizing what is the content, the desired features and which are the user actions we want to “provoke”, and the developing a design to accommodate these elements. UX Exchange is a Q&A site in [Continue reading]
couldn't agree more!
couldn’t agree more! Embedded Link Contrast Rebellion – to hell with unreadable, low-contrast texts! Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!
Trying out Adobe Edge (Adobe Edge brings Flash design to HTML5)
For all the talk of how HTML5 will be the future of the Web, and how, in particular, it will replace Flash for rich interactive and animated content, the reality is that the technology is out of reach for a lot of the designers and animators currently using Flash. While HTML5 developers are working directly [Continue reading]
Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off
Not sure what to think on the TechCrunch re-design yet, but it certainly loads faster (I had stopped visiting the last few months due to it’s slowness) The new logo is our most controversial change. I love it, though that’s no accident: we went through many, many options with Code & Theory before finding one [Continue reading]
25 Examples of Inspiring Product Display in Web Design
Choosing the best way to display products is a really important step of web design, since the way you display your products can drive attention to it and make users interested in what you are selling, or can drive users away. It’s like when you are walking in a mall, the most creative, elegant or [Continue reading]