50+ incredible freebies for web designers, May 2015 We’re constantly amazed at the generosity of designers and developers who release exciting, inspiring products out to the web design community on a daily basis. Not only do these impressive designers speed up our work with more free resources than we can use, but they drive us on to more and more ambitious work of our own. Every month we collect together the best free resources for web designers and developers, and this month there truly is something for everyone; we’ve got great icons, UI kits, and mockups; as well as scripts, tools, and extensions. How to Create Interaction Diagram/Mockups in PowerPoint When communicating new research ideas with others, it is extremely important to visualize what you want to achieve. Often, ideas are vague. They may seem exciting, but when you try to visualize them, all sort of issues will come out. So a quick and dirty prototyping tool will greatly help the ideation process, both for yourself and for communicating with others.
Mockups – Balsamiq Take a second. Let it sink in. The first impression might be disorienting. There are very few interface elements on the screen. HTML Wireframes For the first few years of my career, I didn’t know that wireframes existed. It wasn’t until I started working at a larger agency that I first encountered a strange new black-and-white InDesign world, where multiple rounds of 100+ page PDFs were generated and presented to clients. While a lot of great thinking goes into these highly-detailed wireframes, the actual artifact creates a lot of issues. Problems with High-Fidelity Static Wireframes “When someone hands you a flyer, it’s like they’re saying ‘here, you throw this away’.” Debian / Ubuntu: Install gem The FrontEnd To Rubygems How do I install rubygems package manager for Ruby on rails (RoR) under Debian or Ubuntu Linux operating systems?gem1.8 or gem command is the front end to RubyGems - a sophisticated package manager for Ruby. You need to install the following packages:
Website speed test Nobody Likes a Slow Website We built this Website Speed Test to help you analyze the load speed of your websites and learn how to make them faster. It lets you identify what about a web page is fast, slow, too big, what best practices you’re not following, and so on. Mockups Take a second. Let it sink in. The first impression might be disorienting. There are very few interface elements on the screen. Start exploring however, and you'll find out that Mockups is filled with powerful yet only-visible-when-you-need-them features. 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. Those times when you suddenly reveal a picture of a solution that really nails the problem and gives everyone on the team a reason to cheer.
s smart object recognition algorithm doesn't need humans If we’ve learned anything from post-apocalyptic movies it’s that computers eventually become self-aware and try to eliminate humans. BYU engineer Dah-Jye Lee isn’t interested in that development, but he has managed to eliminate the need for humans in the field of object recognition. Lee has created an algorithm that can accurately identify objects in images or video sequences without human calibration. “In most cases, people are in charge of deciding what features to focus on and they then write the algorithm based off that,” said Lee, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. “With our algorithm, we give it a set of images and let the computer decide which features are important.” Not only is Lee’s genetic algorithm able to set its own parameters, but it also doesn’t need to be reset each time a new object is to be recognized—it learns them on its own.
HowTo Install Redmine on Debian Wheezy Testing with MySQL and Apache2-Passenger ########## Added 13.11.2014 : this guide doesn't work on Wheezy stable ##########¶ This page describes the installation of Redmine on Debian Wheezy Testing, as of 29 March 2011.It's actually a Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) virtual server. First, the most important fact: it does not work out of the box. But it's very easy to fix thanks to Jérémy Lal.
50 CSS and JavaScript Tools, Frameworks and Libraries Keeping up with the new releases in web design is not easy. There are new tools, libraries and frameworks seemingly released every other day. The good news is we’re here to summarize everything up for you. In total, we have trimmed this CSS and JavaScript resource collection down to our 50 favorites, just to make things easier for you. All of the tools, libraries and frameworks have been categorized into the following categories: CSS Libraries & Toolkits, Flexbox Tools, Responsive Web Frameworks, Material Design Frameworks, Random CSS Stuff, JavaScript Libraries & Frameworks and finally a bunch of Web-Based Apps.
Designing with Paper Prototyping Read our review Paper Prototyping. Prototyping is key to any successful design. Paper prototyping is usually the first step, but does it fit into a world where mobile devices are king? Yes, but not using the conventional method. Combine the physicality of the device and the power of paper prototyping and you have a solution that’s fit for the new era of computing.