August 2010
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Corporate Website Design: Creative and Beautiful... →
One unfortunate fact is evident above all else: despite having plenty of money at their disposal, many corporations are lost in sterile MS Word-esque designs that are more stagnant than a museum exhibit…
Nice showcase, really like the Rolex homepage in particular
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What do corporate websites have in common with other people’s children? Three things: they have their charm,...
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11 Principles of Interaction Design explained →
Nice read with some great links to other articles/work on the subject
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25 Fantastic Inspirational Design Typographic... →
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Openness or How Do You Design for the Loss of... →
For one thing, employees, who are facing an increasingly hybridized work/life proposition, are eager to do what they are passionate about, and they will increasingly find the digital spaces and tools that allow them to do this most effectively without having to ask anyone for permission.
Wow, this is a heavy read that really made me think about the impact current technology is having on the...
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Should your business be more social?
Without a doubt, few things have ever changed the World Wide Web as dramatically as the widespread adoption of social media. The statistics are downright staggering:
Over 500 million people are members of Facebook, more than 2 billion YouTube movies are viewed per day, a new member joins LinkedIn every second, and Twitter saw it’s 10 Billionth tweet this March (just to name a few).
Long story...
Subtlety, Deconstructed →
cameronmoll:
The ever-sagacious Seth Godin:
Subtle design and messaging challenge the user to make her own connections instead of spelling out every detail. Connections we make are more powerful than connections made for us. If Amazon and Zappos had been called ‘reallybigbookstore.com’ and ‘tonsofshoes.com’ it might have made some early investors happy, but they would have built little of...
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“For us, it is all about refining and refining until it seems like there’s...”
– Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design as quoted in a Time magazine article published back in April
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Clever minimalist business card design? Or too... →
Found this on Abudeezo’s Best of the Week, very slick.
“Always listen to experts, They’ll tell you what can’t be done and...”
– Robert Heinlein, as posted on vkhosla’s twitter page
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“Search all the parks in all your cities. You’ll find no statues of committees.”
– David Ogilvy (via tmblg)
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7 Cutting Edge Web Design Trends (that Can... →
Eight Principles of Information Architecture (PDF) →
cameronmoll:
Not that Dan Brown, but this Dan Brown:
Information architecture, a field in relative infancy and constantly rediscovering itself, does not yet have a well-established theory that drives the design of structures for websites. You can pick up two books on graphic design and see the same topics covered in each. Why is there no such agreement for books on information architecture?...
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Site Inspire.net →
been seeing more and more of these since dribble has blown up, this is definitely one of the better ones I’ve come across
ialreadydontlikeyou:
Awww snap. This is legit.
robynchell:
Fantastic web design resource for inspiration. Love ♥ it.
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20+ New Apps and Websites for Designers →
designnewssource:
New apps and websites seem to appear on an almost-daily basis. Trying to find the best ones each week or month can be tough, especially considering how many come out that aren’t that great.
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10 sites added to Design Fridge's gallery today →
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Stop designing Aesthetics, start designing... →
“Designing a website to be usable is like baking a cake to be edible. It’s simply not enough. A usable website should be the minimum requirement, it should go without saying that a website should be absolutely usable. It’s time to look beyond that.”
Spent a fair amount of what could have been billable time working through how to merge our content, design and usability for our...
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Adventures in Design →
designnewssource:
The beauty of digital design is also its downfall: The pixel has no value. Think about that for a moment. The raw material we as designers use to build our creative masterpieces with is worth a big fat ZERO.
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Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design... →
This was quoted on SVN, great interview. I especially thought the lead was very well done:
“You can’t accelerate a nine-month pregnancy by hiring nine pregnant women for a month.”
Great insight for people who make their living by managing expectations.
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Weekly Web Design Inspiration #63 →
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“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in...”
– Gustave Flaubert, courtesy of Smashing’s Twitter feed
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Fusing Content Strategy with Design →
How will content live and flow in a dynamic system that changes over time? More importantly, how will users engage with this content and derive value from it?
Great read on UXmag, we’re in the early phases of re-designing our website and this time around we’re trying to confine the gap between the content (both curated and aggregated) and visual design. Honestly, it’s been a...
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“You listen to them, they pay you money.
Kinda like a shrink, but they also get...”
– Miranda (my bride) in reference to this post
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30 Web Designs with Amazing Attention to Detail →
Some nice work in here, details really separate the memorable from forgettable these days.
“Strikethrough is the typographic equivalent of beginning an insult with ‘With...”
– Chris Ramaglia (via runningwithmarkers)
I realized after I said it that I stole it from this: (“It’s in the Geneva Convention!”)
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Main Design Trends in 2010 →
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Clients say the darndest things #2
Last month we started a new blog feature about some of the more memorable statements and requests our valued clients have presented to us over the course of helping them with their website projects.
In our July e-newsletter we included that post as the very last one on the page and surprisingly enough, more people clicked on it than all 5 other articles.
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net
This told us...
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Tumblr’s Identity Crisis →
To throw my hat in the ring, tumblr is not perfect but it’s closer to perfect for me then anything else out there. I’m not smart I can’t write code so this alone puts tumblr to the top of the stack and if people used the dadgum “Read More” button on their posts more often that would go a long way towards solving the neverending dashboard issue.
Regardless, it sure...
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“Sometimes, we as web professionals spend a great deal of time trying to plan and...”
– Alexander Dawson, Reductionism in Web Design as published on Six Revisions
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redbullet process page →
Very rarely do you see something unique and creative on these types of pages, usually it’s just the same old “Discovery, Design, Build, Launch….” with some icons or graphics.
This is done really well and it’s clear the designers put a ton of time into all the details on this page.
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No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas →
I really enjoyed reading this post by Whitney Hess on communicating with clients when they suggest questionable design/usability ideas.
It’s interesting to think of framing the process of pushing back on a client around the concept of assertion rather than confrontation, great read for anyone that works closely with clients (or an internal design committee at their own organization).
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Making User Interface Elements Difficult to Use By... →
Great post by Six Revisions on intentionally making certain UI features difficult to find and use. And any usability blog post that has an area dedicated to the User Experience offered by the toilet paper in public restrooms is worth a read in my book.