Category: Design
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“Why we fail”, or “getting the design right and getting the right design.”
Victor Lombard writes about the downfall of Google Wave… I think of it this way: if we only test bottle openers, we may never realize customers prefer screw-top bottles. That’s what Buxton means by getting the right design. A classic interface design guideline is that any object that looks familiar should behave in a familiar…
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Long copy isnt back
The Asbury & Asbury blog recently had a great post about some long copy Apple adverts: Asbury & Asbury: Long copy isnt back. “Right now, it feels like more and more people are questioning Apple’s claim to superiority. Maybe this was Apple about to come out and tell a few home truths. Remind us exactly how…
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How to test responsive designs for free
“So what is a developer to do? Thankfully, there is a growing number of browser-based tools available that emulate the screen sizes of a wide variety of devices. Different tools come with different feature sets and varying levels of utility, of course. We’ll look at several of them here.” From www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/07/how-to-test-responsive-designs-for-free/
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Nobody ever waited
You should simply do it, in whatever form your budget allows you to
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Getting the message across about Parkinson’s disease
This is a great piece of advertising for Parkinson’s UK, communicating so much through a simple idea which is easily understood.
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I am Tom Steel
I’ve recently built a new “home” page to link my online appearences together – this blog, my photo site, LinkedIn profile and twitter account. You can find it at iam.tomsteel.co.uk and there’s a link in the header of this blog. I’ve played about with a bit more CSS3 with text shadows and also used some media queries…
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A bit of blurb about photobooks
I was approached recently to review a book printing service by Blurb. I don’t normally write reviews on this blog, but when they offered to pay for me to print a book and weren’t interested in seeing my review before it was published, I was intrigued and the opportunity was too good to resist. I’ve…
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Now using web fonts
I wish I’d tried using web fonts ages ago. I’ve just changed the site to use Rock Salt for the header and Open Sans for the rest of the text. If you’re building websites and not using web fonts, do it now. Just don’t add too many to your site or you’ll slow it right…
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Alphabet flash cards
I want to create an inspiring bedroom for my new daughter, and while at Whitechaple art gallery a few weeks ago I saw some nice looking alphabet flash cards for sale – “My favorite things” by San Francisco designer Lorena Siminovich – nice and big with clear print, good illustration and printed on a sturdy board – They’d look…
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Apple, patents and ideas
There’s been a lot of commentary about Samsung’s $1b bill for infringing Apple’s patents, and I’ve found the whole case rather depressing – the patent system seems to have been abused, with examples such as slide to unlock. But it’s the attitude behind the lawsuits that is perhaps most disappointing. In 1996 in a PBS documentary…