Boulderer, iPhone developer, photographer and designer at Fog Creek Software in NYC.
One design lesson here is that most interface design work should be done at actual final scale and all internal demos should be on actual hardware rather than on pitch slides or big monitor screens
This is a great point, and something that I need to remind myself of when designing web-based software on a 30” monitor. Not that I’m complaining about the 30” monitor…
(via Instapaper)
“ be mindful that employing skeuomorphs and realism in UI design gives you a set of benefits, but also a set of shortcomings.
Is Realistic UI Design Realistic? | Aaron Weyenberg (via Instapaper)
“ …the vast majority of people won’t even notice your design. But the very act of them not noticing is (usually) the proof of a good design. On the flip side, of course, are times when the people should notice the design. It’s the Form Versus Function debate that UI designers are faced with every day.
Less is Leaner css. Less extends cssby adding: variables, mixins,operations and nested rules.
I like the sound of this. I’m curious about performance and caching.
Good stuff.
Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.Only one font so far, but this could be a good resource if it grows.
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.I’ve only downloaded the sample pages so far, but this looks as though it could be interesting.
There is a general tendency to believe that programmers can’t style things because they have no style themselves. Yet, all of them will be able to tell you very quickly which one of two designs they like the best, even if they generally can’t verbalize why. This seems to be an indication, at least to me, that some aesthetic sense is inherently present in all of us; what’s different is the ability to turn vague notions and gut feelings into actions and reusable procedures. And that’s where the problem is.
via www.core77.com
Really cool…
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Seems like a good list…
80 of 500 handdrawn typographic posters by Job Wouters are shown in a 3 minute filmclip by Roel Wouters. The posters promote the students final works at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Typography is a significant issue for designers. On many projects, finding just the right font, size, spacing, etc. can require considerable time and attention. In addition to typography, color is also a major factor in the success of the design. What is sometimes overlooked is the combination of color and typography and the effect that it has on the overall project.
is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet.
