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How to Find the Perfect Color and Create a Color Palette

“No single visual element has more effect on a viewer than color. Color gets attention, sets a mood, sends a message. But what colors are the right ones? The key is that color is relational. Colors... 
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6 Tips for Better Branding with Avatars

“We’re living in a social media world, and, like it or not, our avatar is often the first impression others get about us as we interact virtually on social networks, blogs, microblogs and other... 
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UI Pattern Documentation Review

“To date, the most common approach to propagating a single user experience standard is the development of UI guidelines and principles documentation within an organization. Development teams —... 
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Typography for Lawyers

“Even though the legal profession depends heavily on writing, legal typography is often poor. Some blame lies with the strict typographic constraints that control certain legal documents (e.g. court... 
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Outlook is Broken, Let’s Fix It

“Microsoft have confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010. This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have... 
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75+ Excellent Free Professional Fonts

“In this article tripwire magazine presents an overview of more than 75 excellent free fonts you should consider using for your designs. Not all free Fonts are worth using but the Fonts listed in... 
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Font Applications for the iPhone

“It has been predicted that Apple will have sold 45 million iPhones by the end of 2009. And that’s before it hits China. There aren’t hundreds of type-related apps for the iPhone, but here are... 
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10 Steps to the Perfect Portfolio Website

“A personal portfolio website is all about promoting you. You are a brand, and your name is a brand name. No one is going to know about your brand unless you get it out there; and if you’re a Web... 
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How to Deal with Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6)

“Completely ignoring a browser in terms of CSS is a wonderfully freeing thing. It certainly can’t be done on every site. The important thing to remember is that it’s a site’s statistics that... 
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Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities

“Such problems often come from trying to make a Web site accessible without understanding how people with disabilities actually use the Web. The challenge for UX designers is to find ways of including... 
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5 Principles for Setting Type on the Web

” There are some basic approaches, guidelines and goals to consider when working with type on the Web. Overall, the medium of Web typography involves readability, accessibility, usability, and brandability.... 
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15 Tips to Choose Good Text Type

“Many people have asked me which text type is best for a magazine, a newspaper, a poster, a newsletter, a publication, etc. In general, I tell them which to use, but I know that this is not the best... 
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Use of Photos in Interaction Design

“The barrier between web pages and desktop software is beginning to disappear, and modern rich client user interface technologies such as Silverlight/WPF, Air, or Java FX enables designers to take... 
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Recreating the Button

“These buttons just launched in Gmail yesterday, and they’ve been in Google Reader for two months now. The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle... 
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Eight Ways to Save Your Client Money

“Part of being a freelancer is helping clients understand precisely what they are getting themselves into when it comes to contracting a designer or developer. You can write a great proposal with... 
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40 Useful Photoshop Web Design Tutorials

“In this collection, you’ll find 40 high-quality tutorials on creating web layouts from scratch using Photoshop. This article contains a copious variety of tutorials to help you learn and master... 
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How to Design the Perfect List

“Lists are a beautiful way to display content and information in a very easy to scan, easy to read method. Lists are found on most blogs to list posts, comments, tags, or links. In this post we will... 
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Proceed and Be Bold

“Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is a printing press and book artist, but he wasn’t always an artist… He used to live a middle class life like many other Americans, with a family and a job as a... 
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The Evolution of Apple Design Between 1977-2008

“With the 25th anniversary of the first Macintosh computer coming up on January 24th, 2009, we’re taking a look back in time at the evolution of Apple products. Most have been notable leaps forward,... 
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10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques

“More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive. Web application... 
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