We don’t tend to post design related content here but as a designer I’m hoping to change that!
I wanted to mention a great monthly feature of one of my favorite design websites Smashing Magazine. The website, which is aimed at web designers and developers, has a monthly wallpaper series that seeks to offer creative wallpapers to spark the imagination and inspire.
If your like me your constantly searching for things in the world around you to inspire your designs and bring fresh perspectives to what your working on. Given how many hours a day your in front of your computer I feel that your desktop wallpaper shouldn’t be something that you overlook.
Written on 11th June 2009
8 COMMENTS Ralf Rottmann, Serial Mobile Entrepreneur, Apple Addict
YouTube user and Taiwanese Savannah College of Art and Design student bunllu had far too many Post-its at hand and rather than put them to waste, he thought he’d bring us this marvelous piece of stop motion animation:
According to Bang-Yao Liu the idea
comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline.
Joe Lifrieri, a visual artist specializing in illustrations and design for ‘digital mediums’ has a website titled ‘hugs for monsters‘. He seems to be seriously fed up with Internet Explorer 6. So fed up in fact that he has a special message for people still using it.
Is it a bit harsh? Well, yes.
Do you think IE users will get the picture now? Unlikely.
Is it funny? Hell yeah!
Don’t say I didn’t warn you! Screenshots after the jump
When designing software for the iPhone you would think people would use Photoshop, illustrator or the Interface Design software Apple included in the iPhone developer suite. Not Chris over at CulturedCode. He used pencils, wooden forms representing various interface elements, ink, brushes and felt pens to sketch the User Interface for Things:
Make sure you check out this photo full screen. It is just beautiful:
Written on 19th May 2009
1 COMMENT Srikanth AD, Web Designer, Search Engine Optimizer and Google Devotee
The Mozilla Labs Design Challenge Summer ’09 is looking for creative solutions to reinvent browser tabs.
These days 20+ parallel sessions on a browser are quite common. The browser is more of an operating system than a data display application. And tabs don’t work well if you use them with heterogeneous information.
But, looking at the brighter side, this solves the problem of having multiple browser application windows which usually clutter the task bar. However, having tabs across the top of the application window doesn’t make that much sense, especially as the number of open pages increases.
The Question
Reinventing Tabs in the Browser – How can we create, navigate and manage multiple web sites within the same browser instance?
To participate in the design challenge you need to create a mockup of your proposed solution. A mockup can be anything from a wireframe, a drawing or a polished graphic. You also need to create a video explaining your idea(s), presenting the mockup and showing how your idea works.
To get you started, to inspire your thinking and to give you a faster insight, check out this presentation on visualizing browser tabs by TabViz
To check out further details on the design challenge click here.
To be totally honest I don’t like Android much. Call me an AppleFanboy all you want but I just LOVE my iPhone. I do have to admit however that the Android is an exciting software platform.
Now if only someone could make a good looking Android phone.
PCWorld feels the same way apparently and has published an article titled “11 Cool Android Prototypes We’d Like to See” with a few cool looking phones. None as cool and well designed as my beloved iPhone 3G of course (except the huawei which is just a rip-off) but check them out anyway:
Let us know; would you switch from your iPhone to Android if one of these phones would become available?
Browse your NSFW content in style! Imagine 15 people in an office all wearing this. How awesome would that look?! Okay, there are some drawbacks: how quickly can you get out of the pullover to pick up your phone? How attractive will you be to the opposite sex? Is there room for a cup of coffee and a sandwich?
WWW megastar Robert Scoble has reached such popularity that he’s become a blogger who doesn’t need to ask anything of their blog design – irrespective of the fact that he’s been known to slate startups for their poor site designs(!)
As simple as a paleochristian architect reinventing roman epic temples and palaces, Scoble seems to have given up even to a standard Wordpress blog template, to better contemplate the truth(s) of the social web.
With the only support of the Sandbox theme, Robert is bravely standing up against herds of commenters, simply asking for a font different from Times New Roman:
“I wanted to see if it would have a major impact on traffic. It did not. [..] I wanted to see who would complain and who would praise it. Some complained that it was too unprofessional. Others complained it?s hard to read on high resolution monitors (the text goes all the way across the browser)”.
To tell the truth, I’m finding the approach rather innovative; focus on content and let the social networking sites do the rest. Maybe, for blogs, the widgets and clutter era has really begun to fade away. Whilst we realise Scoble’s just ‘in between’ site designs and is likely to soon return to ads and perfectly implemented sidebars, it’s interesting to consider the days of widgets and clutter gradually fading away.
And by the way, Robert, please don’t let them turn Times New Roman the new Comic Sans.
Written on 27th April 2009
5 COMMENTS Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
The guys at Web Designer Depot put together a list of screenshots from various Operating Systems dating back nearly 30 years. If you haven’t had a browse already ensure you do, otherwise have a skim of our selection below including the latest Windows 7 release.
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