Good typography is utilitarian. It allows the reader to focus on the content, not the formatting. Ideally it is not even noticed because it just makes sense to the reader.
As the Hack Design course comes to a close with this last lesson, I want to point to a few resources that will help you understand yourself better as a designer.
Save time and effort when designing a user interface: we round up the best UI kits for developing in CSS.
While the SVG format is extremely efficient in expressing illustrations, vector files can become just as bloated as their bitmap kin. SVG code is often riddled with unnecessary elements, attributes, and spaces, while editors such as Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape add even more to the file with custom namespaced tags.
Design without content is decoration. It used to be that you worked on look and feel before you thought about content. But it’s actually very hard to do design without content.
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If you’re new to Photoshop and you’re designing UI or exporting assets there are some important settings you should use to get the best results. This guide uses iPhone apps as the example settings, but the basic principles apply to all design work in Photoshop. Let’s get to it. Here’s what you need to set up in Photoshop:
Making quality type for the web means attention to detail and a passion for the craft. Brian Warren runs through some ideas and lessons learned along the way.
Looking to work faster, smarter and more efficiently? Creative Cloud is packed with fantastic new functionality that will save you time whether you’re working across print or digital.
Okay, so semantic content is great, but how do you use it? One of the best ways to start writing better markup is to replace generic tags with more expressive elements. Let's take a look at eight that you can use to step up your game.
I absolutely love shooting DSLR video – for obvious reasons. It just looks awesome! However it’s not easy. If you are interested in giving it a shot – here are the things you need to know before you start. Understanding these will help you make a decision to dive right into DSLR video – or go another route.
If you're a web developer targeting the multi-device web, you likely have to test your sites and web apps across a number of different devices and configurations. Synchronized testing can help here and is an effective way to automatically perform the same interaction across a number of devices and browsers at the same time.
In the world of contract work, whether you are a freelancer or you work with an agency, the approach you take to relationship management with project owners is incredibly important to each and every project you embark on. Today, we're going to juxtapose two paradigms of relationship management: vendor to customer and consultant to client. We will talk about a few conceptual differences between these, then talk about how understanding and learning from them can help you to loveyour work even more, and how effective your work is for a given project's end goal.
The different points of a shape – the vector points – have different modes, which let you define how a point looks. For example if it’s straigt or rounded. Three of the modes have so called control points – the little handles next to the vector point – which let you define the curve(s) of the point.
Imagine that you have just written a post on your blog, tweeted about it and watched it get retweeted by some popular Twitter users, sending hundreds of people to your blog at once. Your excitement at seeing so many visitors talk about your post turns to dismay as they start to tweet that your website is down — a database connection error is shown.
Information about customers has never been available on the scale it is today. Businesses are learning new ways to leverage data to improve themselves on a daily basis. They’re realizing that data collection and data analysis have a measurable return on investment, and decision-makers are asking to see them.
Inside every browser are tools to aid developers. Andi Smith shares his tricks and secrets for optimising your development workflow.
The first thing that comes up in my mind when I hear the term “scrapbooking” is the kind of arts-and-crafts project that I used to hate making as a kid—cutting and pasting and collating of images and pictures and articles into an album, usually to celebrate some holiday or other.