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Copycopter
Neat web design, too.
client  cms  rails  ruby  sitecopy  ui  design 
march 2011 by adriancooke
Fluid images [Unstoppable Robot Ninja]
Ethan Marcotte’s approach to fluid images with scripted IE-fix support.
css  design  development  images  browsers  mobile  screen  size 
november 2010 by adriancooke
Basic Maths: a theme for WordPress
“Designed and developed by Khoi Vinh of Subtraction.com with Allan Cole of fthrwght.com”
css  design  wordpress  theme  mobile  grid  layout 
november 2010 by adriancooke
Mike Kus - Dreaming Everyday About Design
Beautiful new personal site by designer Mike Kus of Carsonified.
design  designer  agency  personal  site 
november 2010 by adriancooke
Gradual engagement boosts Twitter sign-ups by 29% [LukeW]
Luke Wroblewski talks through the changes in the Twitter sign-up process and how it improved their engagement measures.
forms  twitter  usability  ux  design 
october 2010 by adriancooke
Shake the blues by overriding Yahoo! Mail’s default link color [Campaign Monitor]
Ros Hodgekiss on how to overcome the blue link problem with HTML email on Yahoo! Mail.
html  email  yahoo  mail  howto  design  css 
september 2010 by adriancooke
Fluid - an open-source software community
From the site: Fluid builds user interfaces, designs commonly used interactions, teaches others how to build good user-centred designs, and works with other software projects to integrate our solutions into their applications. Fluid is a project of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University, funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
accessibility  design  ui  usability  ux  interface 
september 2010 by adriancooke
Pixel patterns for photoshop [Naomi Atkinson Products]
For use as background textures in web page design. Via Dan Cederholm.
design  pattern  patterns  photoshop  textures  resources 
august 2010 by adriancooke
Harmony Website Management
Hosted content management system build on rails.
cms  design  development  tools  rails  ruby  hosting 
august 2010 by adriancooke
User interface design framework – GUI elements library for Illustrator
Free (back-link required) GUI elements, interface icons and color schemes for Adobe Illustrator.
design  gui  icons  interface  vector  adobe  illustrator  plugin  mockups 
july 2010 by adriancooke
Big wins with quick changes [Think Vitamin]
Ryan Carson on the value of iterating quickly on a web page layout based on user feedback.
site  layout  design  iteration  user  feedback  wireframing 
july 2010 by adriancooke
FontFonter
Tool from FontShop that lets you preview a site in their fonts.
design  tool  typography  webfonts 
july 2010 by adriancooke
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures
Anthony Kolber on a CSS kerning option, available in some browsers, for better typography. Interestingly, this is not defined in any CSS specs. Apparently it is an SVG property.
css  design  web  svg  typography  usability  text 
july 2010 by adriancooke
Touch gesture reference guide [LukeW]
Luke Wroblewski’s tough gestures guide and resources.
design  reference  ui  touch  mobile 
june 2010 by adriancooke
15 gorgeous and effective HTML emails [SitePoint]
Mathew Patterson provides a showcase of HTML e-mail designs.
html  email  design  layout  type  usability  conversion 
may 2010 by adriancooke
iBooks on the iPad, a first glance [Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis]
Liz Castro on the display of ePub-formatted books on the iPad.
css  html  xml  ipad  books  design  apple  howto 
april 2010 by adriancooke
Contrast is king [A List Apart]
Leslie Jensen-Inman on building accessible sites based on color schemes.
usability  accessibility  colour  contrast  design  graphic  reading 
march 2010 by adriancooke
Four ways to mix fonts [Ask H&FJ]
Hoefler and Frere-Jones on methods and principles for combining fonts.
design  fonts  tips  type 
march 2010 by adriancooke
Designing for the Web, by Mark Boulton
Full content of Mark Boulton’s book in HTML.
books  design  free  web  designer  process  method  type 
march 2010 by adriancooke
Applying “A Pattern Language” to online community design [Smashing Magazine]
Cameron Chapman on applying principles from architect Christopher Alexander, et al.’s “A Pattern Language” to online community design.
community  design  language  pattern  architecture  theory  models 
march 2010 by adriancooke
Setting rather than resetting default styling [Carsonified]
Thierry Koblentz on substituting the use of “reset styles” with a base stylesheet; along the lines of the progressive enhancement approach.
css  methods  styling  front-end  design  tips  reference 
march 2010 by adriancooke
CSS Border Radius
Jacob Bijani’s web page dingus for quickly fetching the border-radius CSS.
css  design  tools  utility 
march 2010 by adriancooke
Pixen, by open sword
Free Mac OS X bitmap graphics editor.
design  graphics  osx  free  software 
february 2010 by adriancooke
Designing for donations [Carsonified]
Jaan Orvet and Andreas Carlsson present a progressive approach to donation form UI design.
donations  giving  fundraising  forms  ui  ux  design  usability 
february 2010 by adriancooke
Making dough or spam? The perplexing case of designing lead generation pages [Carsonified]
Thoughts and recommendations about design “leadgen” pages, with some examples from ecommerce and higher ed.
traffic  information  design  conversion  visitors  content  analytics 
january 2010 by adriancooke
Design and build email newsletters without losing your mind (and soul) [Smashing Magazine]
Campaign Monitor’s Matthew Patterson on building HTML e-mail. I saw Matthew talk at the Future of Web Design a few years back. It was an excellent presentation.
email  design  html  marketing  tips  howto 
january 2010 by adriancooke
Magazine deathwatch (2) [Joe Clark]
“Do you believe the ‘pages’ of a ‘digital magazine’ should ‘flip’?” — awesome.
media  publishing  online  design  medium  web  native  magazines  usability  from twitter
december 2009 by adriancooke
WEFT-less [mezzoblue]
Dave Shea’s howto for using webfonts/font embedding with Internet Explorer, focussing on type conversion.
css  design  font  ie6  webfonts  howto  reference  browsers 
december 2009 by adriancooke
Web Directions and typographic structure [Mark Boulton]
Mark Boulton provides some categories for thinking about typographic structure beyond fonts.
css  type  content  design  structure  categories 
december 2009 by adriancooke
Revealing Mac OS X’s hidden single-application mode [TidBITS]
Lewis Butler on a feature that has been around since version 10.0 that you can still activate on the command line.
mac  osx  command  line  ui  application  design  tips 
october 2009 by adriancooke
Amperbbreviations [Adactio]
Jeremy Keith’s method for using the best possible ampersand.
css  design 
september 2009 by adriancooke
Bulletproof @font-face syntax [Paul Irish]
Paul Irish on getting around browser quirks when embedding web fonts.
browsers  web  fonts  css  design 
september 2009 by adriancooke
Making Modular Layout Systems [24 ways]
Jason Santa Maria’s CSS grid layout system.
css  web  design  grid  layout  tools 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Chalkwork HTML royalty-free icons [mezzoblue]
Dave Shea’s “Chalkwork” icon set is now freely available.
css  design  interface  web  development  icons  free 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Printing tables [css-discuss]
Jim Wilkinson’s tips on CSS rules for printing tables.
browsers  css  design  print  tables 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Gentium Basic by SIL International [Font Squirrel]
Free serif font in TrueType format. Used with @font-face on realtech.burningbird.net and loud.anotherquietday.com.
browsers  css  design  fonts  free  type 
august 2009 by adriancooke
CSS2 background-attachment on any element [quirksmode]
Peter-Paul Koch’s CSS2 background-attachment reference page. iPhone is not supported for this property.
css  design  iphone  reference  specifications 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Mike asks the CSS Guy about a scrolling trick with background images (Ask the CSS Guy)
Sliding background image effects based on Eric Meyer’s complex spiral demos.
css  design  tips 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Why Standards Fail [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report]
Zeldman on the “humanism” of the original CSS 1 specification, and the importance of finding a practical middle ground between simplicity and technical capability when constructing web standards.
accessibility  css  design  development  html  specifications  standards  web  xhtml 
july 2009 by adriancooke
What to Include In Your Design Contracts [The Design Cubicle]
Brian Hoff on the basic building blocks of a (modifiable) freelance design contract.
business  design  development  contract  work 
july 2009 by adriancooke
Helveticons, icon set
Set of 245 Helvetica-based icons for US$280.
design  icons  type  vector 
july 2009 by adriancooke
Phaeton [Veer]
Kevin Cornell made a typeface.
design  font  illustration  type  vintage 
july 2009 by adriancooke
Where is everyone? [Baekdal]
Baekdal has some interesting data visualisations about mass media and attention over time.
attention  data  design  graphics  information  media  visualisation 
july 2009 by adriancooke
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