Mezzoblue has a posting that lists his favorite standards-compliant CSS based website designs. All excellent stuff, but what stands out amongst them is the new standards-compliant WDDG site. Ok did I mention 'standards-compliant' and WDDG in the same sentence? Well, they still use some Flash, but it is interesting to see what they have achieved with CSS. It's impressive, but for some reason, it does not come out as slick as their earlier Flash-only sites or even as good as some of the other CSS only designs... or may be it is just me...
So what did he learn? Well five things to begin with:
I think this is a simple but great portifolio site, that has attitude and good design. Good work Jack...
A nice Photoshop tutorial that shows you how to create the following effects: Soft Focus, Drawing, Moody & Lomo with downloadable action files.
The Seattle Art Museum has a nice Flash piece on the life of Krishna. The presentation uses the Indian Miniature style of paintings that give a superb texture to the entire piece. Looks really good. Also, check out the original Indian accent on the voice-over...
In this article Dean Takahashi highlights the growing importance of visual design and industrial design:
“It used to be that only high-end companies such as Apple Computer or Sony cared about industrial design -- the distinctive look and feel of their products. But in an age when hardware has become a commodity, many more tech companies are coming to realize that aesthetics matter.”
Makes a very good case for design.
[via JD on MX]
num1000remix is smooth, high paced animation that looks quite cool. There are quite a few neat tricks there, which make it look quite slick. However looking at it, I can’t but help think, could this not have been achieved in less than 5MB? Maybe it’s the high quality audio, but still…
It's been ages since I've done animation myself, but the old school flash animators were so keen on keeping file sizes down. Is it no longer a prerogative?
Boing Boing Blog: Cool way to organize travel images for online presentation
Nice UI: cartoonist/illustrator/blogger Kean organized online photos and sketches from a recent trip to NYC along the subway map. Link (Thanks, Invisible Cowgirl)
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Read Regular is a font designed with an individual approach for each of the individual characters and it is supposed to aid dyslexic individuals.
“Many of the difficulties that occur with dyslexia result in a barrier. Even though the symptoms can vary over an enormously wide range per individual. The difficulties do result in similar patterns of problems. Read Regular is aiming at these similar patterns.”
Now here's a really useful site. Web Design Practices deals with patterns and practices that are prevalent in web design. Not only does it give you statistics and looks at various patterns it also gives you links to studies on the subject. I was looking for some information on breadcrumb navigation, and lo the site has some good links and patterns there. Very cool. [via Digital Media Minute]
Another similar resource is Martijn van Welie's collection of Interaction Design Patterns
The Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity (DAVP) in India is known for coming out with some of the most drab advertising in the country, so when recently it started releasing Full-Page Color ad with the 'India Shining' theme, it did look like some other creative minds were at work. According this report, the ads were developed by Grey Worldwide. Nothing brilliant about the ads, but it's certainly refreshing to see them, nonetheless (personally I like the Indian Oil ads more - reads like Agnello Dias' copy, not sure though.)
Rajesh also points to a NY Times article about the Indian Economy and how ten years after the de-centralization, the results are showing...
In this List-Apart article, John Allsopp looks at web-design today and its roots back in print. The article underlines the following message:
Couldn't agree with him more...
A nice site that gives you a tool to generate color schemes and even see how the colors will appear to visually challenged people. There is also a Flash version that I'd blogged about some time back but this is much better...
Just came across Erin K. Malone's blog. Very cool stuff on graphic design and realted stuff. Especially check out the collection of timelines
IBM has a page that gives extensive guidelines for planning, designing, producing and maintaining websites. Very useful if you're developing websites, or web applications. I'm in the process of defining some guidelines for my firm too, so these would defintely be useful.
Also the IBM Ease of Use page is a good read for everybody interested in the topic...
Ever wanted a font, real bad, but did not know what it was called? WhatTheFont comes to the rescue. Just upload the image, and the font recognition system will identify the font for you. Automagically...
Cool!
Extract from the post:
Very well said.
In this post Keith Robinson looks at the difference between web design and graphic design and urges design schools to treat them so...
Having worked with both media, I completely agree with Keith...
Designing Cross-Browser sites can be a pain (though it seems to have considerably eased in the past few years...)
However if you're a perfectionist and want to make sure your site looks good on all possible browser/OS combinations, Browser Cam looks like the right tool for you...
At $40 a month for unlimited use, it may be something web-design houses might want to look upon as a QA tool...
Aaron Swartz has a parody of the essay by Tufte up on his blog.
Funny and interesting...
Found this site for a Belgium based design studio with some nice pixel animation. The design is good, but the site navigation is highly un-usable. The spider like navigation has a mind of its own and keeps moving... Very frustrating.
But that apart there is some really good work displayed in their portfolio. Especially the information design work for Agfa. I wanted to see an enlarged version of those. It looked very nice...
[via k10k]
A small Flash application that quickly generates a color scheme based on one input color...
Interesting...
Just came across this thread on Tufte's discussion board. It quite old but it is still getting new posts. Very interesting...
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