abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daily Inspiration #2134
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo AoiroStudio … [Link]
abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Marvelous Free Stock Photography
If there is one thing that any designer loves and needs is a good set of high quality, free stock photos. I've ran into Unsplash some time ago, and got to see many great pictures that anyone may use in their projects. I've selected some of my favorite. There are many, maybe hundreds of great images there, but you gotta have … [Link]
Line25.com » The Summer Design Bundle at 96% Off
Today we have another amazing bundle brought to you by TheHungryJPEG.com. Until the end of this month only, you can get 28 Fonts and 19 HUGE graphic packs and commercial licenses for everything included. This great design bundle is priced at 96% off regular retail price, at just $29. That’s a saving of nearly $650. But hurry, because this fantastic … [Link]
WebDesignDev » 28 Fantastic Movie Posters Designs You’ll Love
Even if you’re not a designer, you’ll be amazed by how awesome these movie posters designs are! Check out these 28 fantastic movie posters designs! Some of them are original, while others are fan-made, but all of them are extremely inspiring and creative. This post can also be used as a source of inspiration for web designers. You can be … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » How To Moderate Effectively In Usability Research
As UX professionals, we know the value of conducting usability research. But UX research initiatives — even when designed well — are not perfect. A lab study to test a website, for example, would never perfectly capture a user’s actual behavior in the wild. This is because, inevitably, the research protocol itself will influence the findings.
A lab environment can never … [Link]
abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » On the Adventure with Shelby White
Our good friend Shelby White just relaunched his site and in addition he added photos from his recent adventure. They are spectacular, we have featured some of them. Having grown up in Orofino, Idaho, nature was a monumental aspect of Shelby’s life by allowing for great adventure and humility. At age 26, and now finding renewed inspiration in traveling, Shelby continues … [Link]
Web Designer Depot » Interview: Macaw’s Tom Giannattasio talks Scarlet, workflow, & live design environments
Macaw is one of a new breed of web design tools. It’s one of the first design applications capable of generating clean code, and is endorsed by numerous industry figures. Now, building on the success of their first product, the team behind Macaw is preparing to launch a second tool named Scarlet, with a radical new workflow and a host … [Link]
Web Design – WebFX Blog » Use Sass Within Minutes
Sass is a seriously powerful web development tool. When it was first released, to install and use Sass required the command line and a Ruby framework. This was a big turn-off for many newcomers. But what if I told you, today, you can start using Sass within minutes? What if I told you that you could do it without ever … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Smarter Grids With Sass And Susy
If you’re a designer, you’ll know that grids are your friends. More often than not, they’re the vital architecture that holds a beautiful design together; they create rhythm, structure your page, lead the eye, and prevent the whole thing collapsing in a sloppy mess.
I’m a firm advocate for designing with the browser: prototyping with HTML and CSS has many clear … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Product Design Unification Case Study, Part 2: “Burger-Driven” Framework
In the first part of the case study about Mail.Ru Group product design unification, I described our first approach — a mobile web framework. Aside from creating a unified visual style and interaction principles for a dozen services, we've also transformed our design process from the classic "prototype → design mock-up → HTML → implementation" approach for every screen, to a … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Freebie: A Workspace Illustrations Kit (AI, PNG, PSD, EPS and SVG)
Today we're happy to release yet another freebie: a set of 60 lovely workspace illustrations of items that many web and graphic designers use every day: tablet and desktop computers, Apple Watches, cameras, Moleskine notebooks, headphones, pens, pencils, pairs of glasses — even coffee cups and cookies!
The set has been designed by Anastasia Kolisnichenko, from Minsk, Belarus, and released for … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Quantity Ordering With CSS
Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: create a table of items. Each item should span a third of the content area, with the fourth item starting on a new row, much like floats. However, a particular item must always display the price at the end of the first row.
So if there are only two elements, the … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » An In-Depth Guide To Launching Your Own Podcast
Podcasting has experienced a renaissance in the last couple of years. According to RawVoice, which tracks 20,000 shows, the number of unique monthly podcast listeners has tripled to 75 million, up from 25 million five years ago.
Suffice it to say, now is a great time to start a podcast. It’s an authentic and intimate way to demonstrate authority in your … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Become A Command-Line Power User With Oh-My-ZSH And Z
The command line is increasingly becoming a part of every web developer's workflow. With tools like Grunt, Gulp and Bower leveraging the increase in productivity that comes with working in the command line, we are seeing it become a much more friendly and comfortable place for beginners and experts alike.
This article provides insight into some of the best tools to … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » A Simple Workflow From Development To Deployment
In this article I’ll be taking a look at how to build a simple yet robust workflow for developing sites that require PHP and MySQL. I’ll show you how to use Vagrant to create and run a web server on your own computer, with the version of PHP your live site runs. I also demonstrate a process for using a hosted … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Material Design Icons, Goodies and Starter Kits
It’s always great to have a little toolbox with just the right tools waiting for you when you need them. What if you are about to start working on a new project which should apply the material design language introduced by Google last year? What if you had just a good starter kit with everything you need to dive into the … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » “Web Design Is Dead.” No, It Isn’t.
Every now and then we see discussions proclaiming a profound change in the way we design and build websites. Be it progressive enhancement, the role of CSS or, most recently, web design itself being dead. All these articles raise valid points, but I'd argue that they often lack objectivity and balance, preferring one side of the argument over another one.
These … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Beyond The Boring: The Hunt For The Web’s Lost Soul
Has web design lost its soul? And is responsive design to blame? These questions, posed by my friend and colleague Noah Stokes, are provocative to say the least. After all, the responsive web has made browsing on our ever increasing collection of Internet-connected screens not only possible, but enjoyable.
Our priority as designers must be to solve problems; perhaps more than … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Freebie: Smashicons Icon Set (500 Icons, 4 Styles, AI, PSD, Sketch)
Today, we're happy to release a very large icon set: the freebie contains 500 icons in four editable variants: outlined, solid, webby and flat, covering all sorts of various categories. The icons allow you to customize the stroke width and style, not to mention that you can change the color of the elements. They’re carefully crafted on a 60px grid which … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Think Fast! Using Heuristics To Increase Use Of Your Product
People have many tough decisions to make; whether they should use your application or website to accomplish a task shouldn’t be one of them. Your design team can take advantage of our knowledge of the human mind and human behavior by accounting for a number of heuristics, or mental shortcuts, that researchers have identified.
You might be familiar with the term … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: July 2015
We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork, and as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd.
This creativity mission has been going on for seven … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Design Principles: Compositional Balance, Symmetry And Asymmetry
A balanced composition feels right. It feels stable and aesthetically pleasing. While some of its elements might be focal points and attract your eye, no one area of the composition draws your eye so much that you can’t see the other areas.
Balancing a composition involves arranging both positive elements and negative space in such a way that no one area … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Rapid Front-End Prototyping With WordPress
Prototyping is one of the best things that can happen within a project, yet it is extremely underutilized. Prototyping makes a project better suited to users, elevates user experience, increases the quality of your final code, and keeps clients happy.
The problem is that developers often see prototyping as a waste of time, since high-quality prototypes take considerable effort to make. … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Efficient Image Resizing With ImageMagick
Responsive images have been keeping us on our toes for quite some time, and now that they are getting traction in browsers, they come with a scary problem: the need to efficiently resize all our image assets. The way responsive images work is that an appropriately sized image is sent to each user — small versions for users on small screens, … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Effective Logo Design, Part 3: How Geometry Influences Logo Design
Galileo knew it. Every ancient culture that left traces of knowledge in their art knew it. Basic shapes compose the fundamental geometry of the universe. We can take credit for a lot of things, but human beings did not invent geometric shapes. We discovered them through the observation of nature. Understanding basic shapes and their functions have taught us to mark … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Qualities Of Good Flux Implementations
It has been an exciting year for my team. Last year we kicked off a project using React, and over the course of the project we've learned a lot about React and Flux — Facebook's recommended architectural principles for React apps. In this article, we'll take a look at some of the key lessons we've learned.
Whether you're new to React … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » A Detailed Guide To WordPress Custom Page Templates
I like to think of WordPress as the gateway drug of web development. Many people who get started using the platform are initially merely looking for a comfortable (and free) way to create a simple website. Some Googling and consultation of the WordPress Codex later, it's done and that should be it. Kind of like "I'm just going to try it … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Creating Advanced Animations In Photoshop
While animation in Photoshop is not a new concept, it definitely has come a long way in the last few years: The Timeline panel has been overhauled, video layers have been introduced, as has the ability to create keyframe animation. These additions have really upped Photoshop’s game.
Even though Photoshop is still a long way off from being able to create … [Link]
abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Logitech Site Design
I haven't posted anything about web design in quite a long time. I have been so focused on Android app design and development that I am starting to feel that I am getting out of touch. To freshen things up today I wanted to share the personal project that Owi Sixseven put together for Logitech. The project is just for fun, … [Link]
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