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There seems to be a growing sentiment that interaction designers, visual designers and UI designers need to know how to write code.

The underlying secret to beautiful user interface design is realism: making 2D objects on your screen appear to sit in 3D space with volume, surface properties and undulations that might appear in real life. These faux 3D objects have highlights and shadows just like objects on your desk might have, and they have textures that emulate real objects from glass to sandpaper and everything in between. Designing beautiful user interfaces has more to do with the why than the how.

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Selected Webdesign is a directory of interesting and/or well designed websites from around the world.

Navigation is the most significant element in web design. Since web-layouts don't have any physical representation a user can stick to, consistent navigation menu is one of the few design elements which provide users with

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

By Jacob Gube and Smashing Editorial Team Minimalism, in the context of design, refers to simple, unadorned designs that embody only the most basic and fundamental needs. In art, it is a movement that has

Open is a design studio in New York City. We help people figure out what they need to say--and use design to say it in ways that surprise, engage and inform.

A collection of interface design solutions from all over the web, where users can mark patterns they like, and learn from other's design solutions

15 excellent examples of web typography. We take the best of web typography and explain why these web sites are worthy of this description.

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