Posts Tagged ‘Design’

Free Web UI Sources

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Mashable has collected 10 sets of great UI templates for Photoshop, Illustrator and Omnigraffle. These sets include everything from icons, to skin-able vector buttons, to browser specific form elements that can really speed up the prototyping process. The posts get a little redundant if you go through the entire list, but there are definitely some gems if you dig a little.

Click here to read the full article.

Click here for free vector icons. Great for getting your idea across without going through the process of creating your own illustrations.

Click here for a vector wireframe kit.

Click here for a robust browser kit with editable form fields and browser bar elements for all major browsers.

Creating Brand Guidelines

Friday, July 30th, 2010

This week Smashing Magazine has a great overview for creating Style Guides for brands and websites. It covers the basics from Logos to color treatments, and even gets deeper into grid and icon use for websites. A comprehensive list of beautiful visual examples and related articles. A must read for designers who are new to the world of branding.

Read the full article here.

Seen a font and want to know what it is? Check out What The Font.

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve been asked (or have asked) “do you know what this font is?” hundreds of times. MyFonts.com has solved this problem by creating What The Font, a simple online tool that can identify fonts. You upload an image of a font, double check to make sure it recognizes the letters in the image properly, and click a continue. The font has been identified you are presented with buy links, the ability to rate the font, or the option to submit the font to the site to have it matched manually. The app works best when the font is isolated from other images or background texture, but in my experience it has proven very reliable.

Check out What The Font.

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Usability Assessment of MySpace Apps Leaked

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

MySpace has never been know for its simplicity or usability. Fortunately for users they were trying to do something about it. Unfortunately for MySpace those documents leaked online. MySpace was seeing poor install and retention rates for their apps compared to Facebook and hired a usability team to make some web design and user experience recommendations. It’s more pixel pushing than redesign, but a very interesting look into one do the largest sites on the web and how they strive to improve their business.

Click here for a link to the document.

CSS iPhone – Showcase of iPhone Formatted Websites

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

CSS iPhone is a great resource for well designed iPhone formatted websites. Good for anyone researching mobile web design and looking for inspiration.

Check out CSS iPhone.

css iphone

Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Alternatives to Helvetica

Fontfeed.com has a great article on Helvetica and it’s alternatives, reviewing several fonts that have a similar clean feel to Helvetiva without feeling so repetetive.

Read the full article here.

Estelle Music Website Launch

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Today we launched a new EOS powered website for Estelle. It was designed in house by Amy Stein and built by the D2F team at WMG in conjunction with Atlantic.

Check out the site.

Estelle Music Homepage

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