All posts tagged Design

160+ Mega Web Design Tutorial Roundup

07/11/2009 | tools

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Designing websites is a creative process and it isn’t easy at all to get started if your don’t have the right ideas, inspiration and tools available. There are several different ways you can approach the design process and depending on what type of design task you’re facing some have pros and some have cons. If you’re designing a lot of pages for a complex application for a customer that requires to approve the usability and easy of use early an ongoing it may be a good idea to start with a mock-up (simple html page hierarchy with minimal design to start with). If on the other hand you’re designing a blog theme with a very sophisticated layout containing many textures and images it may be much better to start the design process in an application like Photoshop. This is the approach this article covers end to end by presenting you with more than 160 high quality Tutorial that guides you step by step in building up a web interface all the way from scratch. The article will take some time to download because of the many images!

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10 Signs of a User-Focused Design

07/11/2009 | articles, Design

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When building a new website or re-designing an existing one, web designers are faced with all kinds of significant challenges, including keeping the client happy, creating a site that gets results, and catering to users at the same time. During the design and development process it’s easy to get distracted and overlook the significance of usability. Since we’re the ones creating the site, we know it much better than any visitor will, and sometimes it’s easy to forget about the impact on users.

Building a truly usable website requires the right kind of priorities and testing. With the emphasis only on creating a great-looking site or one that is effectively monetized, usability can easily wind up taking a back seat. Throughout the design and development process, make an effort to view the site as if you were a first-time visitor and see if it changes your opinion on the strengths and weaknesses of the site.

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6 ways to make your design look more professional

29/10/2009 | articles, Design

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I have met with my fair share of inexperienced graphic designers who are searching for their place in this enormous industry. Many have asked me what they can do to design at a more professional level.

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80+ Photo Manipulations Art to Ignite Your Creativity

28/10/2009 | Design, Inspiration

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Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. Photo manipulation is an art in itself, that requires a skill and precision as we know, it is one of the most creative artforms to come out of the digital age.

This presentation shows an incredible collection of photo manipulation art related to nature, photography, objects, illustrations, HDR as well as some abstract and fantasy-related concepts. Hopefully, everybody will find something interesting to ignite their creativity.

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20 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Web Design

27/10/2009 | Design, web design

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When you are creating a website (or hiring a web/blog designer to create one for you), there are specific items you need to be aware of. Things that normally wouldn’t cross your mind. For the average person who wants a website or blog for their business, they are after one very important thing – sales. Now, they may tell you that they want the big flashy logos, or the overdone textures/gradients, but it is the job of a well skilled web designer to steer their clients in the right direction.

Below are twenty do’s and don’ts of effective web design. Study, read, (re)read and print this page. It will help either make or break your website. And don’t hesitate to let us know of anything we might have left out, in the comments below. We love getting your opinions on things and discussing the articles with you – after all, you’re quite possibly the coolest people in the world.

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Speed Up Your Design Processes While Reducing Errors

18/10/2009 | articles, Design

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A developer friend of mine once taunted me with the fact that all I do is ‘make things look pretty‘. Well as a web designer you strive to make every design you create as unique and special as possible. You cant simply dive straight into a design, there is a lot of ground work to cover off before even laying down your Pen to Tablet. In an attempt to avoid churning out generic looking websites I follow a very structured design process. Every stage in this process must be unique and covered off correctly.
If you work as a solo freelancer then you will have to cover all stages in a project, some of which are usually handled by other members of staff in an team environment such as Information Architecture, writing Functional Specs, Quotes & Proposals right the way through to some basic Development work, Cross Browser and Usability Testing and a range of Accessibility Checks.  So it is very important to stick to your processes, not to rigidly to restrict your design, but enough to make sure all your bases are covered.

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20 Time-Saving Tips to Improve Designer’s Workflow

16/10/2009 | articles, Design, tools

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Want to save some time? Of course you do! You are probably always looking for ways to do this faster and make that easier, it’s human nature! One of the best ways to save time is experience. The more experience you have, the more comfortable you are working, the more you have developed your own best methods, and with experience you know how to better avoid mistakes and disasters. So always stay hard at what you do and you will definitely save more than “just” time!

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22 Photoshop Web Design Interface Tutorial Sites

19/09/2009 | Photoshop, Photoshop tutorials, web design, Webdesign tutorials

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I wanted to showcase very good tutorial sites here also, since there are several great websites delivering beautiful and high quality tutorials constantly! If you love and search for more Photoshop tutorials, you really should visit sites below!

Also great way to keep up if you just subscribe to these blogs, create own tutorial section for example in Google Reader, and when mood is for learning from quality tutorials, go and check out what’s fresh in these sites! At least I am doing so, and well – practice makes perfect!

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