Via The Logo Smith
Finally, in honor of the "I ♥ NY" designer Milton Glaser, who passed away this summer, here's a great collection of famous logos and their humble beginnings. (You don't have to be a design geek to get a kick out of these, but it helps.)
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Via Rich Staats | @richstaats
Color plays an integral role in UI design. When done right, it improves user experience, influences purchasing decisions, and reflects the brand's voice. Here are some tips on how you can improve your site’s accessibility and the experience it delivers for color blind people.
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Via Traffic & Sales
High-quality product photos are the key to increasing your online sales. It’s not just about taking flawless shots — you need to optimize your images for e-commerce so they showcase your products in the best possible way.
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Via Brielle Yang | @silkcards
Color theory is the art and science of colors, our understanding of how colors mix, how people perceive colors, and the message the colors communicate. Are you aware that colors impact how one thinks and behaves? In fact, color ads attract 42 percent more attention than those in black and white.
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Via Gal Shir | @galgalshir
Colors are one of the most important and powerful elements in design. Since design is an evolution, our perception of colors (and the ways we use them) is ever-changing.
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Randy Brown writing at Elegant Themes Blog, and Larry Alton at Website Magazine offer helpful reviews of Web Design Trends for 2016.
It is obvious to all of us that web design is changing at a dizzying pace. Identifying fundamental trends can help us see what we need to do to keep our websites relevant in the year ahead. While it is certainly true...
Via Marissa Davis | @marissar
Mobile is changing the way we work. Whether we're paying bills, reading the news, or purchasing goods, we're doing it all on mobile devices. And it's changing the way businesses need to deliver information. Take a look at the top 10 design trends in today's market, along with best practices for applying them to mobile...
There's an ongoing debate among web designers about content placement on webpages and the so-called "fold."
The fold takes its name from the newspaper world, which should already tell you it's an outdated concept: Content printed above the point on the newspaper where it gets folded in half gets more attention, because the content "below the fold" goes...
It's a sad day in the type world. Hoefler & Frere-Jones, the preeminent digital type foundry, has broken out into civil war.
The firm is perhaps the most important type designer of the 21st century. Its fonts have graced the branding of billion-dollar companies, and the covers of glossy magazines. Movie-trailer warning labels in the United States are...
In preparing for my talk, at the Gorgy Kepes Institute in Hungary earlier this month, I found myself thinking about the difference between design and art. As an artist/designer I have often tried to articulate the difference between these two endeavors, but this time I feel like I got closer to clarity in my thinking. Here's what I have come to:
Art is...