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THIS IS WHAT INSPIRES US – A blog about Advertising, Architecture, Art, Graphics, Design, Movies, Music, Photography, Fashion and everything else that inspires us. If we find it inspiring we will post it. Please feel free to give us suggestions if something exciting crosses your way. (more…)
Creating perfect mockups has never been so easy. With Placeit’s user-friendly online tools you can find incredible templates no matter what your goal, whether you need razor-sharp iPhone mockups to showcase a new app design to a client or t-shirt mockups to fine-tune the product listing on your online store Placeit has you covered. (more…)
The folks over at keynotopia have created a very extensive template for designing mobile apps. Once a $49 dollar product, it can be yours for free with just a single tweet. In minutes you could be creating low-fidelity prototypes using Apple Keynote! (more…)
The following is a collection of 11 Mobile design Patterns websites (scroll down) where you can gather inspiration or information on how other designers and developers like yourself have created their apps. Most of these sites contain several screenshots of the popular iOS and Android apps so you can view the onboarding process or if you’d simply like to walkthrough each mobile pattern manually. (more…)
Personal hobby of one Harvey Shephard, Oh Beautiful Beer celebrates remarkable graphic design from the world of beer. Harvey’s site doesn’t just celebrate bottled beer, he posts about the carton packaging, cans and canned packaging as well as beer logos, crests, lettering and more. Wonderful site for inspiration about bottle design and packaging. (more…)
What is Font Awesome? Easily the largest and commercially open set of vector graphics stored in a font. With this font you can bring hundreds of vector graphics to your web site design or mobile app simply by styling some text — the advantage is clear, the font is loaded once which saves your web or mobile app from making lots of micro-requests to your server for content. (more…)
Stunning Flat UI 3D Mockup Kit from Milan based UI Designer Frank Rapacciuolo. This collection comes as a multi-part, multi-layered Photoshop PSD file that you can use to present your work in this new flat UI trend. Some of the designs include the iPad, iPhone5, iPad Mini, Thunderbolt Display, iMac, Macbook Pro Retina and Windows phone from Nokia. (more…)
“To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse.” – Paul Rand (more…)
Our culture defines our values and our behaviour – not only in our everyday lives, but also on the Web. What catches our attention, what makes us trust a website, how we search for information, what we consider relevant, what triggers our actions, and how we perceive a website – at the end of the day, it all depends on our cultural background. (more…)
Furthermore, the shopping cart had to hold product orders form multiple vendors. The ordering system had to process orders and notify multiple vendors for product shipment. The website vendor’s answer was to use the free and open source CMS Joomla an add-on module called the IXXO Multivendor Shopping Cart designed for guru-level IT personnel, not the casual user. (more…)
Inside Apple, Jony Ive is pushing designers to rethink iOS, the software that runs on the iPhone and iPad. Apple’s new direction? Like Microsoft, which has distanced itself from skeuomorphic design, Ive has been pushing “flat design” in Apple’s mobile products. But just because Apple and Microsoft are embracing flatness, don’t let that fool you into thinking the future of mobile user interface design will also be shallow. (more…)
It’s happened again. You’ve decided to make something, but you’re not sure what exactly it should look like yet. You pull out your favourite tool for wireframing, and spend a few minutes doodling. Sometimes that works, but sometimes it doesn’t. Quite often, you run right into a wall. Damn. Stuck again. (more…)
Design teams are discovering that a well-built design pattern library makes the user interface development process substantially easier. A quality library means team members have the information they need at their fingertips. Choosing usable components that work smoothly for users becomes the developer’s path of least resistance. (more…)
I was contracted to a large company to create a UX pattern library. The part of the company that I worked in produced customised websites for a number of the organisation’s clients. Until recently, each project was designed and built on an individual basis which led to difficulties when making changes along with slower design and development. (more…)
I’m sure I was swearing allegiance to one brand over another as soon as I began to develop the capacity for critical thought. Reebok vs. Nike, Coke vs. Pepsi, SEGA vs. Nintendo, Apple vs. Microsoft—these warring companies were more than just brands to me, they were almost systems of belief. (more…)