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Category Archives: Design
Google gets crazy with Newton’s Apples
Google is celebrating Newton’s Birthday today with a poppy javasript falling apple. Google recently added javascript to their homepage with the fade in / fade out of the text around the edges. Google usually adds cool graphics for holiday’s like Issac Newton’s Birthday but they have decided “what the heck,” we are already using javascript on the homepage, let’s add something else. I think it’s kind of delightfully tacky.
Posted in Design, Web Development
Tagged apples, google, issac newton, javascript, newton
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Awesome RSS Icon Source
I just learned about Feed Icons – “The Home of the Standard Web Feed Icon”
Wikipedia Icons
Here are a few icons from Wikipedia’s collection. I wan to document them all and talk about the visual meaning. I will try to continue to add more. Feel free to send more along or post links to the other icons!
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Nicholas Felton’s Graphic Design and Typography Work
I’m a fan. Check out his annual reports and blog. He does a nice job with typography as well as visual representations of data.
The Very Hungry PDF Reader
There is something familiar about Adobe Acrobat 9′s logo . . . Oh yeah! That’s it! Comparison of Adobe Acrobat 9 artwork and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
microsoft paper banner ads
So it seems like a new tend in design is that of having paper cutouts used, especially with some different textures, reminiscent a little of the late 70′s – especially for advertisements. Microsoft is getting on board with the trend, which means that it is popular enough to be OK to use in the mainstream, but it also means that it is not so fresh and cutting edge (because MS just doesn’t do that!)
Intuitive Usability / User Experience / UX
UX hero says it best: Ambiguity compounds stress by making the path unclear. When it’s not clear what will happen when you press a button, or whether “undo” is possible, you have to think harder and longer before taking action. See the complete UX article
Web Design: Don’t overuse your Logo font
Quite a few people make the mistake of using their logo font in their web page design. While this approach does keep consistency between the fonts, it makes the logo look less like a “mark” or “brand” and more like part of the web page. When creating a logo, try to use a non-standard font, something that is off the beaten path, and outside of the Microsoft standard load. Consult a graphic designer to make sure the font “says” what you want it to say. And stay away from Comic Sans.
jQueryUI Position – A nice job on visual documentation
I love the documentation provided for jQueryUI’s position
WPtouch iPhone Theme
“With a single click, WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device.” Basically, this plugin will take your WordPress 2.7+ blog and check the HTTP headers to find out if the user’s browser is a mobile phone or iPhone, etc. Then, instead of serving up your normal theme, s/he is given a cool iPhone style interface to navigate your blog. It’s really quite cool and it takes care of some issues regarding small screen size browsing. It didn’t disable some of my plugins, however, which use javascript, (for example, the snow falling script) which seem to give the iPhone’s processor a little bit of trouble (lots of math for that script). Over, I like it.
Posted in Design, Tech Opinion, Web Development
Tagged iphone, micro browser, wordpress
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