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This is wonderful for everyday mobile users, as the quality of their device screens become sharper and allow them to better experience the finer details of an application. But this creates an interesting challenge — designing for multiple mobile densities.
The makers of Briefs have found some excellent creative ways to make their Mac app work well alongside its iOS counterpart.
14 Twitter Tips and Tricks for Power Users Check out these tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your Twitter experience.
Picture this. The designer on your team has spent the last week whipping up lo-fi wireframes that highlight solutions to the user and business problems you're trying to solve. She's worked through all the interactions. Then she presents to the rest of the team. But she flounders, stumbling over her words. Everyone has a deer-in-the-headlights look on their faces. She's lost them. And it ends with the dreaded four words, "what do you think?"
We select 20 milestones that have helped shape the modern world of design from the Sixties to the present decade.
Take a look at our quick list of Photoshop shortcuts, guaranteed to speed up your workflow. The list includes layers, selecting, saving, text and brushes.
We've selected 8 of our favourites here. They're all free, or offer free versions. Let us know which ones you get on best with...
Website navigation needs to be intuitive and easy to use - but it doesn't need to be boring. These sites all step outside the box to create something special...
Design hardware manufacturer Wacom is a big favourite amongst digital artists, graphics designers and photographers, with its Cintiq range of tablets particularly favoured in the creative community. Now the company has released a new, improved version of its full HD tablet, the Wacom Cintiq 22HD. The Wacom Cintiq 22HD Touch features, as the name suggests, a multi-touch display that's similar to Wacom's larger, more expensive model, the Cintiq 24HD.
Every designer should see these brilliant movies, covering everything from typography to urban art. Find out which ones you've missed...
UPDATED: Boost your 3D skillset with these enjoyable Cinema 4D tutorials, including: creating easy depth of field effects, mastering the physics engine, and fixing those messy lathe NURBS...
If Google were to redesign its now-familiar Chrome logo, what could it look like? Several designers have given their own interpretations of the twirly wheel.
This would certainly catch a potential employer's eye. Created by a designer with work woes, 'The Game of Design' includes instructions and dice as well as research, client, visual communication and composition cards.
There is a growing trend throughout the web community to embrace an understanding of behavioral science, and to apply its tenets to our designs. This progress helps us walk the delicate balance between providing an emotional and pleasurable experience for our users and communicating content and information through clear, intuitive patterns.
Using the oldest form of printing to create memorable letterpress business cards can help beat off the competition. Here are 25 stunning examples of exactly what letterpress printing can achieve.
Basically an image can have larger dimensions, but can also be compressed more and you still get great results on a high-res screen.
We believe that the best applications are those that work universally. That means they work on Retina screens and non-Retina screens; they work on tall screens and short screens; they work on iPads and iPhones and iPod touches; most importantly, they work well in all these contexts.
We think these 55 do just that. Take a look at our list of amazing, innovative print adverts and we guarantee you'll be oozing with inspiration by the time you reach the bottom.
12 design agencies sign up to a new campaign asking studios to offer a free desk to new talent. Could your company take part too?
“New York Day” and the approximately four-minute long video is only a teaser of what photographer Samuel Orr hopes to produce. One of the really cool things about this video is its employment of natural sound (or nat sound as we call it in the business).
