Mar 17, 2012
Too many articles that discuss interface design fail to include examples or comparisons. Here’s a great article in UX Magazine that doesn’t make that mistake - Visual Design and Usability Yellow Brick Road.
The article describes giving the user a visual path through the website by properly using whitespace …
Mar 13, 2012
I just found this cool website called Usability First that provides “valuable information about usability for anyone interested in the design of software or websites, from beginners to experts, in academia or in industry.”
An excerpt from their Cognitive Walkthroughs Section:
To determine the level of usability for a website …
Feb 22, 2012
A product with great engineering will only get you half way there. The other half is great design. I’ve been playing around a lot lately with graphic design, color palettes, gradients, and text effects using Mac apps like Gimp, Seashore, and Inkscape.
A great way to learn a new …
Feb 22, 2012
Inkscape is a great cross-platform tool for creating vector graphics. After I created some graphics with the basic gradients, border, and 3D effects, I wanted to see what interesting text effects I could create.
Text effects can add a lot of richness and pop to your design. Here’s a …
Feb 22, 2012
It seems like everyone’s using background textures in their mobile apps or on their websites. Here’s a nice article that talks about creating background textures in one my favorite Mac drawing tools, Inkscape:
http://tutorialgeek.blogspot.com/2010/11/texture-in-inkscape.html
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