Today, I’d like to do something very simple: give you my personal reading list. These blogs know what they’re talking about – do yourself a favor and visit them regularly.
Design Shard
CSS Tricks
Six Revisions
A List Apart
Function
Smashing Magazine
Noupe
Design Mag
Before & After Magazine
Good luck!
I my first post in this series, I tackled the basics of what the pen tool was, and how to use it. In part two, I’d like to discuss Adobe Illustrator’s complementary pen tools.
The Pen tool is a very important piece of several different design programs. It is probably most integral, though, to Adobe Illustrator. It’s also a complicated tool to master. This is the first in a multi-part series designed to break down the tool and make it more approachable.
As a web designer, one of the biggest issues I have is finding the right typography for my sites. Using Cascading Style Sheets, we can plan out every facet of the type design on our sites, but you have to get a handle on each setting. That’s why CSS Typeset is one of my favorite sites.
I purchased slide:ology recently to help me in presenting information to my classes. After reading through it, though, I found a number of things that help with more than just presentation design.
In an earlier post, I described the idea of Signal vs. Noise as a metaphor for your Inbox; today, I’d like to use it to address presentation design. By focusing as much as possible on the signal (your message), and cutting away the noise (everything else), we can make truly effective, attractive, interesting presentations.
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The daily, shorter format allows me to shoot off interesting websites, books, or shortcuts as I find them. This site, on the other hand, allows me to be more verbose about things, and maybe get across a [...]
Patterns help our brains determine relationships between things. You can use patterns to help all parts of your design. Today we’ll focus on typography.
Adobe Photoshop’s Adjustment Layers – the new Best Practice in photo adjustment.
The website Kuler from Adobe is a very powerful tool for the forces of beauty and useability. It’s perfect for people like me – people who freeze up when someone asks them ‘which shade of purple is better for this?’
