Ma.gnolia: Bookmarks in Web Design

web.without.words

2008-10-13T10:34:11-07:00

"[A] visual playground. Every week I'll take a popular and known website and reconstruct it by removing all words and images, replacing them with blocks (a common "concepting" phase of any design process). I welcome and value your feedback, comments or suggestions on websites to deconstruct."

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Tags: web design, user experience, ux, planning, ui, user interface, wireframes, wire frames

Review of Web Design Marketing Solutions for Business Websites | Nimbupani Designs

2008-10-13T07:34:19-07:00

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Tags: webdesign, business, marketing

Install FLIR - Typography Solution For The Web » DivitoDesign

2008-10-12T14:53:10-07:00

Learn how to install FLIR on your website. You will have more typography options, is easy to use, search engine friendly and makes your page loads fast compared to sIFR.

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Tags: flir, webdesign, accessibility

23 Beautiful Examples of Web Site Archives

2008-10-11T05:57:28-07:00

Website archives can be tough to handle creatively. These examples provide inspiration.

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Tags: design, inspiration, web development, lists

Retro and Vintage In Modern Web Design | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

2008-10-07T12:12:52-07:00

Retro and vintage are becoming a new trend. Once rarely used in this robust, dynamic medium, early, retro elements now more popular variety of design contexts. Online shops, corporate designs, portfolios blogs incorporate both styles

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Tags: webdesign trends, retro, vintage

Usability Post » How Usable is Your Copy?

2008-10-07T12:04:21-07:00

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Tags: usability, copy

Insert in place without document.write

2008-10-06T20:57:35-07:00

And there you have it - a simple but elegant way of inserting content in place, removing the last vestige of need for document.write!

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Tags: javascript, accesibility, xhtml

Icon Archive - 20,400+ free icons, buddy icons, xp icons, vista icons, desktop icons, aim icons

2008-10-05T20:25:41-07:00

Collection of 20,400+ high quality icons for Windows, Mac and Linux. Provided by 173 authors. Fast and easy navigation.

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Tags: web icons, web, icons

The Golden Rules of Usability | Nimbupani Designs

2008-10-05T18:01:22-07:00

Golden Rules of Usability

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Tags: usability, access

Firefox counters Google's browser speed test

2008-10-05T16:22:53-07:00

"We're very much in the game and moving fast--'reports of our death are greatly exaggerated,'" JavaScript pioneer and TraceMonkey coder Brendan Eich said in a blog. And noting Firefox's higher score, he said, "Maybe we should rename TraceMonkey 'V10' ;-)" Firefox 3.1, which Mozilla hopes to release by the end of the year, comes with JavaScript acceleration technology called TraceMonkey. In Mozilla's test that pitted TraceMonkey-enhanced Firefox against the Chrome beta, Google's browser was 28 percent slower on Windows XP and 16 percent slower on Windows Vista.

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Tags: firefox 3, google chrome

Vischeck - Simulate what colorblind people see

2008-10-03T07:43:14-07:00

A program that allows you to simulate what colorblind people see when they look at your Web page, images you've created, etc. You can download a program to run on your computer or use the online tool to look at images or Web pages.

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40 Must Have Grunge Fonts

2008-10-03T07:35:37-07:00

Designers should have at LEAST 1,000 fonts on their computer and if you aren't lying to yourself, you're like me and have closer to 2,000 (the last time I

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Tags: grunge fonts

First Batch of 2009 Programming Announced | SXSW.com

2008-10-03T06:27:09-07:00

The annual event announces the first batch of confirmed panels for 2009.

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Tags: SXSW, SXSWi, panels, happycog, calendars, schedules, 2009

Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes | Premium Drupal 5 & 6 themes, designed just for Drupal

2008-10-03T06:20:37-07:00

Gorgeous, advanced Drupal 5 and 6 themes, designed by Drupal theme experts. Browse our gallery of premium Drupal themes and download instantly.

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Tags: webdesign, design, development, inspiration, Themes, css, cms, templates, download, directory, layout, theme, Drupal, drupal-themes, theming

WallSwaps, by Erskine Design

2008-10-03T03:11:06-07:00

"Internet swap-shop" with interesting and beautiful visual presentation.

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Tags: erskinedesign, erskine, wallswaps, design, layouts, interface, invention, beauty

An Event Apart 2009

2008-10-02T16:06:53-07:00

An Event Apart is pleased to announce the first cities and dates in its 2009 schedule.

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Tags: aneventapart, 2009, schedule

Communicate Quick: First Impressions Through Visual Web Design

2008-10-02T05:22:58-07:00

"While many people still associate visual design for the Web with “making things look pretty”, investing in the presentation layer of Web sites can quickly yield more significant returns."

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Tags: web design, communication, usability

typograph

2008-10-01T15:46:41-07:00

live demo font-size relationships in CSS based on traditional typography scales.

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Tags: css, typography, web design, web tools

smush it!

2008-10-01T07:50:09-07:00

mushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download. Smush it comes in different flavours: * You can upload a bunch of pictures in your browser * You can provide us with a list of image urls or * You can get a Firefox Extension to optimize the images found on any web page

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Tags: web design, web development, images, compression

Thoughts on Interaction Design: About This Project

2008-09-29T08:01:11-07:00

It "is the primary goal of this text to better define Interaction Design: to provide a definition that encompasses the intellectual facets of the field, the conceptual underpinnings of Interaction Design as a legitimate human-centered field, and the particular methods used by practitioners in their day to day experiences. This definition and investigation centers around the issue of argument and rhetoric, and illustrates that Interaction Design is a form of communication that can be thought of as identical in nature to language. As Interaction Design is a vast subject, this text attempts to touch on many topics in a slight manner rather than one topic in a deep manner. "An additional goal of this text is to assure practicing Interaction Designers that they are not, in fact, simply tools to be used in the cleanup phases of a technology-centered project. Interaction Designers need to possess a great intellectual capacity for complicated problem solving, for dynamic inquiry relating to technology, and for substantial empathy of the human experience. This intellectual insight is ideal for solving strategic business problems and for humanizing technology, and the creation of 'pretty interfaces' is perhaps the most blatant misuse of this critical resource."

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Tags: web design, interaction design, user experience design, user experience, usability