Why Your Links Should Never Say "Click Here" Interview: Maria Dubrovskaya - Articulated Paper Doll Artist - Jung Katz Today, I’d like to introduce you one of my all time favorite illustrators, Maria Dubrovskaya. Her articulated creations, culture as well as in color and detail, just leave me in awe. Tell us about yourself: who are you, where are you from, and what do you make? Hi, friends! How did you get started making paper dolls? What’s your inspiration? What does your typical day look like? How have others responded to your work? “Your card, intended for my husband, arrived on the exact perfect day! How do you keep motivated? What’s the best advice you’ve been given? Have any future aspirations that you’d like to share? What’s your dream project? What art supplies do you use? How could the art industry become better in your opinion? Any other artists that you would like to recommend for others to check out as well?
What’s on Your Bucket List? 101 Things To Do Before You Die “Every man dies – Not every man really lives.” ~ William Ross“The only people who fear death are those with regrets.” ~ Author Unknown A few days ago, I was surfing online when I came across someone’s bucket list. It quickly inspired me to create my own list and write an article about it at the same time. What’s a Bucket List? If you haven’t heard about the term “bucket list”, it is a list of all the goals you want to achieve, dreams you want to fulfill and life experiences you desire to experience before you die. Why Create a Bucket List? If you don’t live your days by personal goals and plans, chances are you spend most of your time caught up in a flurry of day-to-day activities. Even if you frequently live by goals or to-do lists, they are probably framed within a certain social context e.g. performance, career, health. It’s just like planning ahead all the highlights you want for YOUR whole life. To get the free ebook, enter your name & email: Create Your Bucket List 1. How about you? 2.
Improve your startup’s surveys and get even better data Startups frequently use surveys as a cheap and easy way to get feedback from users. But the resulting data will only be as good as the survey itself. I often see products with surveys that have easy-to-fix mistakes like misleading questions, improper sampling, and skewed rating scales. There are plenty of places to learn about survey design. When to use a survey Before designing your survey, think about the questions you want answered, and decide if surveys are the right tool for the job. Surveys are great when you want to… Track changes over time — See what changes before and after a feature launch.Quantify issues seen in user studies — We know [x] is a problem for some users, but how many? But surveys are not very good at… If a survey is the right method to answer your questions, here are some good tips for getting started. Survey basics Only ask what you need to know and can act on — Avoid “nice-to-know” questions, as they just increase the length of your survey. Avoid leading questions
Lil Wayne Quotes - Quotes & Sayings by Lil Wayne A Gmail Lab That Makes Life Easier: Canned Responses I’m always on the lookout for tools and strategies to deal more efficiently with the overwhelming number of emails I get each day. Here’s something that’s helped out lately: Gmail’s Canned Responses. Canned Responses lets you create a template for an email response that you write often, then import that response into your email with one click. Saves you LOADS of time. So, for example, I often get emails from Brazen Life fans (a blog I manage and edit) asking how they can contribute guest posts. With Canned Responses, I save myself from having to write that email over and over. How’s that for saving precious minutes? Here’s what Canned Responses looks like in my email: I’ve also created a Canned Response for passing on press releases and another that says I’m traveling and will respond when I can (for my Nicaragua trip next month — I’ll send that note selectively rather than using an autoresponder). So how do you add Canned Responses to your email arsenal?
Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit by anthony on 01/05/11 at 10:27 pm When you see a Submit button on a form, what comes to your mind? One could easily reason that clicking the button submits the user’s information into the system for processing. A Submit button describes what the system does well, but it doesn’t describe what the user does at all. When users fill out a form, they are engaging in a task. A form button that says Submit gives users the impression that the form isn’t focused on a specific task. Your form button should describe exactly what the user is doing in their task. Although Submit buttons aren’t as prevalent as they once were, they still exist on forms today.
Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms - Smashing UX Design Advertisement If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is not enough to simply enable users to sign up on your site. To make it possible for the service to reach a maximal exposure we, designers, need to provide users with a good user experience. We need to invite them, describe to them how the service works, explain to them why they should fill in the form and suggests the benefits they’ll get in return. However, designing effective web forms isn’t easy. But how exactly can we figure out these decisions? Below we present findings of our survey of current web form design patterns — the results of an analysis of 100 popular web-sites where web-forms (should) matter. Update: the second part of the survey results is now also published: Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms Part 21. Sign-Up Form Design Survey 1. 1.1. 1.2. 2. 2.1. 2.2.
91 Trendy Contact And Web Forms For Creative Inspiration This article showcases modern and interesting contact/web form solutions found around the Internet. I also collected interesting ways how people decide to call their contact forms – get in touch, contact info, say hello, talk to me, say hey, connect, say “hi”, mail us and of course – contact us. My own personal opinion is, you should use Contact or Contact Us in your navigation, but supplement it with creative relate photos and styled text. There you could use more creative – say hi, get in touch or friendly – say hello. Article is separated in 4 sections: Modern And Trendy Contact Form Solutions ( 40 Examples)Grungy, Vintage, Hand-Drawn Style Contact Form Solutions ( 16 Examples)Clean And Minimalistic Contact Form Solutions (18 Examples)Extremely Original and Creative Contact Form Solutions (15 Examples) I hope you’ll enjoy this article and get necessary inspiration and understanding how contact sections and forms can be created in appealing, clean and creative way. 1.Contact DigitalBase
InDesign CS5 & CS5.5 * Export content for EPUB (CS5) Export text You can save all or part of an InDesign story in file formats that you can open later in other applications. Each story in a document exports to a separate document. InDesign can export text in several file formats, which are listed in the Export dialog box. You can save sections of commonly used text and page layout items as snippets. Using the Type tool , click in the story you want to export.Choose File > Export.Specify a name and location for the exported story, and select a text file format under Save as Type (Windows) or Format (Mac OS). Exporting content for the web To repurpose InDesign content for the web, you have several options: Dreamweaver (XHTML) Export a selection or the entire document to a basic, unformatted HTML document. Copy and paste Copy text or images from the InDesign document and paste it into your HTML editor. Adobe PDF Export a document to Adobe PDF and post the PDF on the web. Flash (SWF) Flash (FLA) Digital Editions (EPUB) What gets exported General options
10 Different Creative Commons Projects That You Should Definitely Pay Attention To What we would do without open access on the web? Probably dole out a substantial portion of our incomes on consuming and sharing content. Thankfully, the spirit of sharing has been kept alive (and encouraged) by Creative Commons among other things. Creative Commons broken down to its basic core are a set of flexible copyright laws that allows creators and authors maintain ownership of their works while giving everyone else a chance to enjoy and share it. Creative Commons has succeeded in championing the cause of open content. So much so that large swathes of intellectual properties are being kept open in the public domain…all licensed under Creative Commons. Let’s take a look at five Creative Commons projects that could give you great content to look over and share for the price of a credit byline. Flickr – The Commons Flickr is one of the most well-known faces and probably the largest sources when it comes to Creative Commons licenses. Looking for another cool photo site with CC content?
A scientific guide to posting Tweets, Facebook posts, Emails and Blog posts at the best time 10.7K Flares Filament.io 10.7K Flares × We’re pretty keen on optimal timing for social media here at Buffer, and I figured it was high time I collected all the information we have about online communication into one place. I’ve collected research and stats on Twitter, Facebook, email and blogging to help you find the best time to communicate with others in each format. The tricky thing I’ve come across is that since the web is still so new, a lot of the research available to us is conflicting. We really need more time and more studies to get definitive answers about what works best, and the fact that our audience members are constantly changing their own activity patterns makes it even harder to work out for sure. So my suggestion would be to use this guide as just that—a guide to help you work out what to test for your own audience, so that you can see what actually works best in your specific case. Let’s get into the stats then! Facebook – find the best time to post your updates