I RSS a feed from fullasagoog, a conglomeration of mostly Adobe-related articles from various sites. On it I came across one from User Eccentric titled The Four Qualities of Successful Design Researchers.
Nice quick read; here’s the four he describes:
Worth checking out. The author is himself a Design Researcher for Adobe Flex.
Interesting that the new A&M web style guide came out the same day as an article called 10 things a web designer would never tell you. Note particularly #6: enforce style guides to the letter, and the link to the article illustrating its point.
While remembering what comes with great power, it sounds like responsible designers should treat branding guides like the pirate code—more what you’d call guidelines than actual rules.
Hmmm. So you must be a pirate for the pirate code to apply. How should that relate to a style guide?
Remember those days when a website consisted of about 2,700 nested tables? I sure do. Luckily those days are a thing of the past. With the introduction of CSS2 years back there was no good reason to keep churning out table after table in your layouts. With CSS3 and HTML5 around the corner (hopefully) things are only going to get better.
I find myself so anti-tables, I often trying to get rid of tables – for tabular data!
Even though it’s 2009, apparently some “web designers” still don’t buy into the whole no-tables movement. This past week an article titled Why CSS should not be used for layout has spread like wildfire. If you are are moderate at CSS, you will quickly realize that most his arguments are off base, but it’s any interesting read never-the-less.
Luckily, an article has been written in response to the first, Why CSS should be used for layouts. I might be a bit bias, but I find myself agreeing with the second article.
Moral of the story: let tables die already (at least for layouts). Now if we can just kill off IE6…
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, you should look into SXSW.
Mark and Jared will be going from the Visual Media team and Sam will be going from TOG.
Well known web designer, Jonathan Snook, made a quick screencast explaining how to use the slice tool in Photoshop and Fireworks.
I often find myself often skipping the slicing in PS and just doing it manually. However, after watching the screencast you will see it can be a true time saver – especially when dealing with sending the file (psd) between multiple designers.
Enjoy.
Designing websites for state agencies prevents you from getting to crazy in Photoshop. Sure you can try and do something “outside the box” here and there, but the design elements can only be pushed so far.
That doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate others’ free reign. The article 40 Beautiful and Creative Website Footers is a great example of this. While the vast majority of the websites featured are blogs, they are still amazing never-the-less.
