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Contrast is King in Design

Tweet“If you can make a solid design in black, white, and shades of gray, it will often allow you to translate your design to almost any color combination—as long as that color combination maintains... 
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How to Find the Perfect Color and Create a Color Palette

Tweet“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.... 
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6 Tips for Better Branding with Avatars

Tweet“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... 
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UI Pattern Documentation Review

Tweet“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

Tweet“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.... 
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Font Applications for the iPhone

Tweet“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... 
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5 Principles for Setting Type on the Web

Tweet” 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... 
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Use of Photos in Interaction Design

Tweet“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... 
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This is Cape Canaveral

Tweet“Back in June for Father’s Day, I treated myself to a trip around town to some antique malls and stores. As I was making my way through the aisles of one such mall, scanning for any interesting... 
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40 Useful Photoshop Web Design Tutorials

Tweet“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... 
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Doodle 4 Google

Tweet“Google doodles are the special “dressed-up” logos we run on our homepage for holidays and other events, and Doodle 4 Google is an opportunity for one child to have his/her artwork... 
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Create a Burberry Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Easy Steps

Tweet“Since I posted my set of 50 Plaid Pattern Illustrator Swatches I’ve had quite a few requests for a tutorial on how I created them.  The cool thing about plaid patterns is that they are... 
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How to Design the Perfect List

Tweet“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... 
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Proceed and Be Bold

Tweet“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... 
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The Evolution of Apple Design Between 1977-2008

Tweet“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... 
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10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques

Tweet“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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50 Illustrator Tutorials Every Designer Should See

Tweet“Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your head around, particularly after getting used to the workflow as applications such as Photoshop. The difference between layer use and creating... 
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The Elements of Design Applied to Web Design

Tweet“Design is broken up into a number of basic principles that apply to all design from type creation to painting to page layout, both on the web and in print. However, especially on the web, these... 
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Getting Creative with Transparency Effects in Web Design

Tweet” There are well-established methods of imitating Web transparency that have been developed to overcome browser support issues. While we can appreciate past solutions, it’s important to break... 
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Share Your Favorite Screen Designs, See Other Favorites

TweetScrnshots.com is an online community where designers can share interesting and beautiful designs. What a great idea. Search by date, tags, domains, and users. This is a great resource for designers... 
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