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Elegant.ly Finding a Designer for Your Startup

Recommended by elsterama on July 30, 2010 via ReadWriteWeb

start_baddesign.pngThe design and user experience of a site is often a make or break experience. Users, company hires and investors are heavily swayed not only by how neat a site looks, but how well thought out it is. Simply put, if your site is bad on the experience or design front, it makes it look like your team can't execute, which is about the worst thing you can say about a startup.Continue

  • Design
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Software development process
  • Structure
  • User experience design
  • User interface
  • Visual arts
  • Web design
  • Comments
  • ReadWriteWeb
  • Original article

Green Tips: Eco-friendly Office Furniture

Recommended by elsterama on July 30, 2010 via WebWorkerDaily

Office furniture is a great place to start taking responsibility for your environmental impact in the home office. Desks, shelves and chairs can do more damage to the environment than simply using up energy and natural resources when they’re manufactured. They can also introduce toxic chemicals into the environment, both during their manufacture and after their disposal.Continue

  • Business
  • Design
  • Disaster
  • Ecology
  • Environment
  • Environmentalism
  • Furniture
  • Green furniture
  • Herman Miller
  • Knoll
  • Law
  • Michael Braungart
  • Recycling
  • Steelcase
  • Sustainability
  • Comments
  • WebWorkerDaily
  • Original article

How to Navigate Design by Committee

Recommended by elsterama on July 29, 2010 via Six Revisions

How to Navigate Design by CommitteeContinue

  • Architectural design
  • Arts
  • Design
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Interaction design
  • Structure
  • Technical communication
  • Usability
  • Comments
  • Six Revisions
  • Original article

Typography Mania #39

Recommended by elsterama on July 28, 2010 via abduzeedo


Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration.Continue

  • Beckemeyer
  • Design
  • Structure
  • Typography
  • Visual arts
  • Comments
  • abduzeedo
  • Original article

Overcoming the Obstacles of Usability Testing

Recommended by elsterama on July 27, 2010 via UX Booth

When people hear about ‘usability testing,’ many things come to mind—eye-tracking cameras, big HCI labs, a long testing process, a lot of expenses, and maybe a little confusion as well. Even at this stage in the proverbial game, usability testing isn’t so well understood, and misconceptions abound.

While it’s true that when doing usability testing there are several stumbling blocks that can impede your progress (lack of funding, lack of time, lack of motivation, and especially lack of testers), there are also many ways to get around these issues. There may even be reasons why they’re no longer valid in today’s Internet world.Continue

  • Design
  • Educational technology
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Jakob Nielsen
  • Pluralistic walkthrough
  • Science
  • Software testing
  • Technical communication
  • Usability
  • Usability testing
  • Comments
  • UX Booth
  • Original article

Great collection of 30+ Excellent Photoshop Website Layout Tutorials

Recommended by elsterama on July 27, 2010 via [Re]Encoded.com

Again it’s time for us to share some awesome Photoshop tutorials. This time we’ll have a look at a great collection of tutorials that help us make websites. These can be great inspiration and teach you some new tips and tricks. Remember to play around a bit with colors and settings to get that own special look. We hope you’ll enjoy!

Good luck :) Continue

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Business
  • Communication design
  • Cross-platform software
  • Design
  • Drupal
  • Graphic design
  • Grid
  • Grunge
  • Web application frameworks
  • Web design
  • Web development
  • Comments
  • [Re]Encoded.com
  • Original article

How Web Designers Can Adopt a Global Mindset

Recommended by elsterama on July 27, 2010 via Six Revisions

How Web Designers Can Adopt a Global Mindset

Globalization is one of the biggest business buzzwords in the 21st century. The rise of the internet as the world’s dominant medium is largely responsible for the onset of this global mindset, as businesses of all sizes realize the potential of tapping into new or emerging markets afforded by the World Wide Web.Continue

  • Business
  • Character encoding
  • Character sets
  • Design
  • Internet
  • Law
  • Notation
  • OSI protocols
  • Scientific revolution
  • Tableless web design
  • Unicode
  • UTF-8
  • Web design
  • Comments
  • Six Revisions
  • Original article

Web Localisation is Important... but Why and How?

Recommended by elsterama on July 26, 2010 via abduzeedo


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  • Communication
  • Design
  • Internet
  • Language localisation
  • Science
  • Scientific revolution
  • Unicode
  • Web design
  • Comments
  • abduzeedo
  • Original article

Making Money Designing Themes: What You Should Know

Recommended by elsterama on July 26, 2010 via Six Revisions

Making Money Designing Themes: The Pros and Cons

Alongside my primary income stream, which is my web design freelance business, I’ve also been selling themes and templates for content management systems and publishing platforms like WordPress for close to two years now.Continue

  • Blog software
  • Communication
  • Communication design
  • Design
  • PHP programming language
  • Social Issues
  • Web design
  • WordPress
  • Comments
  • Six Revisions
  • Original article

Drawing the Line: 6 Things You Shouldn’t Tolerate in Projects

Recommended by elsterama on July 23, 2010 via Six Revisions

Drawing the Line: 6 Things You Shouldn't Tolerate in Projects

I was pretty proud when I netted my first clients as a freelancer. Wow! Someone is actually willing to give me their money and have me design their site? I was ecstatic that someone had picked me out of all the talented designers out there.

But my joy didn’t last very long.Continue

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  • Communication
  • Communication design
  • Design
  • God
  • Law
  • Logos
  • Nurse-client relationship
  • Thin client
  • Web design
  • Comments
  • Six Revisions
  • Original article
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