Best Design Examples of Ribbons and Badges, Free PSD's A trendy look of a website with relevant information is on demand from the viewer’s side. Implementation of 3D elements in web site designing is a latest practice to earn more revenue from the sites. Lot of other equipments is in use to enhance the creative look of the sites, at the same time maintaining the productivity to worth the log in. A use of badges and ribbons banners in website designing is now being highly admired by the web developers. Browse through the websites and you will find plenty of sites using this trendy ribbons and badges. “Pretty Little red ribbon” is a good ribbons and badges example. “Curled date ribbon” is another ribbons and badges example. Another Ribbons and badges example is “Blue featured ribbon”. cabedge Urbanoff Appmiral Sunday Best Websites Lense Cake Sweet Cake The Combine 2011 Decorama Design Moving Ebridal Legal Services of Southern Missouri Forefathers Group Webzguru Ryan O’Rourke One thing that matters Letter Learner Quote Roller Olive & Twist
Jason Santa Maria – Dorm Room Tycoon Can you introduce yourself? I can try, sure. I'm Jason Santa Maria. I am a New York based graphic designer. I guess I can start with the older stuff. Most recently, I am co-founder of A Book Apart. A lot of things. Yes. Today, the theme of this interview is to talk about Editorially, and how you guys have crafted such an elegant product and in particular the UI and the design decisions that went into that, because there's a lot of clarity. Oh, absolutely. How do you get that clarity and focus of knowing what works? I don't know. The biggest things that I knew that we want to have were very, very sparse writing interface, which wasn't going to be too difficult, because it was just, don't put too much stuff on the page, but also, really giving a lot of prominence to the versions that you go through and preserving the history and the conversation around a document as you're writing. When did you guys start prototyping? Oh, I would say early last year. No. There's more room for players. Yes.
PSD Wrangler After recreating page after page of the Facebook site over and over again I thought it was about time that I should bite the bullet and make a Facebook template that i could re-use and make my life that little bit easier. This Photoshop template makes it easy to mockup a Facebook timeline for a brand in half the time (hopefully). The Facebook timeline PSD is Fully editable so you can make the most of the space in the profile and cover image, you can also edit all of the posts in the timeline to make the content relevant to the page. So say goodbye to screen grabbing Facebook, Well… maybe not altogether, but hopefully you’ll be doing a little less of it now. If there is anything that i’ve missed or that you would like to see in the template drop me a message by clicking ‘Ask me anything’ at the top of the page and I’ll try my best to add it in.
CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design 7 Essential Books on Responsive Web Design You Do Not Want to Miss For those of you who want to depeen your knowledge and development of Responsive Design technique, we recommend a selection of 7 reference books about it, which you can purchase via the Internet. Of course, the first one we would like to emphasize is the origin of Ethan Marcotte, "Responsive Web Design", published by A List Apart. Smashing Magazine has also undertaken, as always, a great job of editing and reporting with its fantastic collection of books on responsive design techniques. Finally, also noteworthy is Cristian Darie's guide to developing this technique for mobile applications with AJAX and PHP. Responsive Web Design From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Mobile First Our industry's long wait for the complete, strategic guide to mobile web design is finally over.
14 Beautiful Content-Heavy Websites for Inspiration Designing a good website that accommodates a lot of content is a tricky balancing act to pull off. Does one attempt to present the user with all the information in a clean, organized manner, or reveal it bit-by-bit, in an effort to create an engaging breadcrumb trail that tugs the user along the road to enlightenment? Get it wrong, and you risk overwhelming your visitors, who’ll then leave without retaining any part of what they just read. Get it right, though, and you’ll have gained a new audience member who not only understands your message, but also might just bring a few friends with them when they return. “Afraid of being exposed, dying to be seen — there’s a dilemma for you.” -Philip Roth, The Human Stain Information overload is a brick wall for website engagement that sets in very quickly – and once it does, it can be very difficult to regain your visitors’ attention. Polygon What is it? Why we like it The Verge What is it? Conde Nast Blik
Ligature Symbols by Kazuyuki Motoyama Logos Please copy & paste this code to your HTML file or Stylesheet. <!-- HTML --><p>Simple use for mailto link. Download How to make this font ? Ligature Symbols is to display the symbol with a ligature features. About me Copyright © 2012 kazuyuki motoyama (kudakurage)
It's Not UX vs. UI, It's UX & UI How differentiating the two will improve them both Chris Bank of UXPin — the wireframing & prototyping app — compares and contrasts web UI and UX, explains why we sometimes default to building a UI, and how UI shapes UX. For analysis of examples from over 33 companies, feel free to check out Web UI Best Practices. The web user experience (UX) is the abstract feeling people get from using a website. The user interface (UI) is what people interact with as part of that experience. When designing a website, you want your UX to be as positive as possible — you want your users to enjoy being on your website, that’s kind of the whole point. Source: UX is not UI Typically for websites, a company’s design team works on the UI in order to heighten the UX. We’ll start by giving an overview of UI with some examples, explain strategies to help you understand why a good UX depends on a good UI, and dive into why it’s easier (but necessarily correct) to create a UI instead of UX. What Web UI Is… And Isn’t
My Favourite Free Icon Sets For Web Design Advertisement I’ve been receiving a few emails lately asking me for some of the web design resources that I personally use. Well, I’d like to start sharing my resources with our readers so today, I’ve gathered up a collection of the icon sets that I have personally downloaded and use on a daily basis. One thing that I’ve emphasized before is to have a collection of resources at your disposal. There are a lot of different icons out there and choosing which ones to download and save in your resources can be difficult. I used to just be download happy and download every icon set that I found and I found that to be very ineffective as I would still end up having to sort through hundreds of folders looking for the right icons. Well, in this post, I’d like to share some of my favorite icon sets that are available for download. My favorite Icon Sets Isloo These fantastic icons are from Icon Finder. Toolbar Icon Set This free set comes with 35 icons that you can use in your website design.
10 Heuristics for User Interface Design: Article by Jakob Nielsen Download a free poster of Jakob’s 10 Usability Heuristics at the bottom of this article. #1: Visibility of system status The design should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within a reasonable amount of time. When users know the current system status, they learn the outcome of their prior interactions and determine next steps. Predictable interactions create trust in the product as well as the brand. #2: Match between system and the real world The design should speak the users' language. The way you should design depends very much on your specific users. When a design’s controls follow real-world conventions and correspond to desired outcomes (called natural mapping), it’s easier for users to learn and remember how the interface works. #3: User control and freedom Users often perform actions by mistake. When it's easy for people to back out of a process or undo an action, it fosters a sense of freedom and confidence. #4: Consistency and standards
Content Management System (CMS) Icon Set (12 Free Icons) Advertisement Today we are glad to release CMS Icon Set, a set with 12 high quality icons in 48×48px, available in the .png-format. The set was designed to be used in content management systems, but can also be useful for other user interface designs. This goodie was designed by the Russian design studio Pixel-Mixer and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Download the icon set for free! You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. download the set (zip, 0.1 Mb) Behind the design As always, here are some insights from the designers: This Smashing CMS icon set was designed by the Russian studio Pixel-Mixer. Thank you very much, guys! Related Posts You may be interested in the following related releases: It's done.
How do I recreate this color overlay layer effect in Photoshop? Original image Add a layer for your color and put it under your image. Then use the blending mode "Luminosity" on that image. Select your image layer, and go in the menu "Image", then select "Adjustment" and then "Desaturate." Add a new layer with a color on top of that image and set it to the blending mode "Color." To add a more dramatic effect, you put the color image on top of these 2 layers and use the "Overlay" blending mode at 60% transparency. Use the color mode "Duotone." Fist set your image to grayscale mode, then Duotone mode in the menu "image/mode." Then in the Duotone menu, you can choose 1-2-3-4 colors and mix them together. If you need to keep this to print in spot colors or Pantone, you can save the image in EPS and leave it in Duotone mode.