Griddify, a Tiny Photoshop Panel for Guides and Grids Griddify is tiny and fast. It helps you compose custom grid systems, vertical rhythm, and do a bunch of other stuff with guides in photoshop. Watch the short tutorial to learn how it works: Download and Install (Photoshop CC) Download and install ZXPInstaller. It helps you install Griddify and other Adobe extensions easily. Responsive Comping: Obtaining Signoff without Mockups If you’re making websites, chances are you’ve given some thought to what constitutes a responsive-friendly design process—and you’ve probably found that adding a mockup for every breakpoint isn’t a sustainable approach. Article Continues Below At least, that’s what happened at my company, Bearded, where we had spent years creating websites in Photoshop or Illustrator, having those mockups approved by our clients, then recreating those designs with CSS. Until now. A few months ago, we stopped making static image-based mockups in favor of designing with code.
Retrieve GMail's "noname" attachments There is a bug in Google Mail that sometimes gives you "noname" attachments, bizarrely encoded (it's called "appledouble"), when sent from a Mac. Google have been made aware of the problem in March 2007 and are... hum... "working on it". Here you can upload those files and retrieve them decoded. If for some reason it doesn't work, send me your noname file *zipped* and I'll see what I can do to make the script better.
Apps Without Code — Building Without Code (part 3 & 4) Building Without Code (part 3 & 4) Well…I guess this is becoming a series! See part 1 & part 2 here For over a year, I’ve been chronicling my experiences launching a tech startup, without writing any code. As Kollecto grows, I get more sophisticated in how I build. Thus far, my posts have unintentionally been helpful to lots of non-technical founders, so I wanted to share another update on how exactly I’m making this work. Quality software —12 non functional requirements every app should have If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Sharebar When people talk about really great quality software, they usually think in terms of it’s utility, simplicity or aesthetics. But there’s more to it than that.
20 Best Photoshop Plugins For Designers Although there are many great and free alternatives, Photoshop is still the most popular and powerful graphics editor, and the default choice of many designers, illustrators and photographers. If there’s a feature you need, but can’t find in Photoshop, don’t worry – countless scripts and plugins are available to help you extend and improve Photoshop’s functionality. Here is a selection of 20 useful Photoshop plugins for designers. Photoshop Plugins For Mockups and Layouts
Sketchboards: Discover Better + Faster UX Solutions The sketchboard is a low-fi technique that makes it possible for designers to explore and evaluate a range of interaction concepts while involving both business and technology partners. Unlike the process that results from wireframe-based design, the sketchboard quickly performs iterations on many possible solutions and then singles out the best user experience to document and build upon. It’s what we do well Designers love the “breakthrough moments” in a working relationship. Freelance Contracts: Do’s And Don’ts - Smashing Magazine Advertisement In the world of freelancing, the entrepreneur has to take on a number of tasks for themselves that would normally be handled by a separate department at a bigger company. Most of these tasks are not part of the creative processes that freelance workers are used to, but rather are more tedious, left-brain paperwork. Right-brain creatives often shudder at the thought of these forays into linear domains.
Website Building in 2016: The Maker Movement — CMS Critic In 2016, people who Google a service or a product are expecting to land on something specific. This is why small, beautiful websites are everywhere, with each one dedicated to a service, a product, or an event. The age of the landing page, inbound marketing campaign and SEO is well and truly here, with each of those building blocks making up the basics behind growth hacking. Website builders are arguably the best tools to design such small-to-medium sized sites. But what are these tools exactly? Wikipedia’s article about website builders states that:
InRelease - Agile Release Management for TFS > Home By using Release Management for Visual Studio 2013, your development and operations teams can enable additional capabilities in Team Foundation Server 2013 so that they can more easily and more confidently configure and automate complex deployments to a variety of target environments. You can also model release processes, track approvals and sign-offs, and display release status graphically. Each person using the Release Management Client for Visual Studio 2013 for creating, updating, or deleting a release pipeline sequence must be licensed for either Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN, Visual Studio Premium with MSDN, Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN, or MSDN Platforms.
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