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Did you know that OS X has a little-known utility for taking screenshots? It's a small tool called Grab that's tucked away in the /Applications/Utilities folder and is exceptionally handy for taking screenshots, especially timed shots that require a few seconds of preparation.
We've scoured the app store to find the best iPad apps for design, creativity, inspiration, organisation... and fun, too.
The call to action is still an important aspect of designing websites. Gene Crawford explains the current trends.
Slice your work in half
Being a programmer, I type a lot and I suffer from Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and tendonitis on my wrist. I’ve tried many different ways to help make it better. One way to do this is to switch to a different keyboard layout other than QWERTY. QWERTY was supposedly designed for typewriters to solve a very specific problem–to keep the types from jamming against each other. The most frequently used keys were placed apart from each other to prevent them from jamming. This results in a non-ergonomic layout. However, there are alternatives.
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While David O. Russell and American Hustle were nominated for 10 Academy Awards, they came home empty-handed on Oscar night. Most of those involved with the film are no stranger to nominations, but it’s the work involved that gets them even remotely near the statuettes in the first place. In this terrific behind the scenes video for American Hustle, learn how David O. Russell and the rest of the crew approached their work on the film, and what it takes to put together a movie of this caliber.
It’s a common pattern in logos. The metaball shape is actually very easy to create in any vector software. Here’s how to do it in Illustrator using basic shapes and the Pathfinder tool.
Canadian artist Darren Rawlings (a.k.a. “Rawlsy“) has created If They Could Transform, an awesome series of illustrations that imagine what famous vehicles from movies and TV shows would look like asTransformers. You can view the full collection of illustrations on his art blog and deviantART gallery.
Here I will infrequently post some snippets and info about the things I'm working on. Which is mostly related to my UI framework, Meek.
Jesus Diaz from Gizmodo suggested making the remote into a true gaming controller – I’ve added a few images at the botton showing how this might work…game on!
Good layout design frames a story and impacts how you are informed by the content. For example, in the hallways of Sports Illustrated, editors hang up every page of the print edition to be reviewed and manually tweaked before publication.
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Avegant's Glyph headset originated as a Kickstarter project that ended in February, earning more than 1.5 million dollars. The company is showing off the Glyph at Macworld, giving users a first look at the head-worn mobile theater.
When I first tried Bohemian Coding’s unfortunately named but altogether amazing Sketch, my eyes lit up, and I recognized immediately that this was the user interface design tool for which I had been waiting for years. It combined the precision of a raster editing application like Photoshop with the versatility of a vector editing application like Illustrator, and it did so with all of the speed and nimbleness of a newly imagined, freshly written app, one free of the cruft that had been increasingly weighing down the dominant players in the graphics software market for years. Also, it was incredibly affordable.
Lisbon-based designer Nuno Loureiro applies 20th century designer Dieter Rams' reknowned principles for good industrial design to the web.
Whether you’re a get-in-get-out filmmaker, or just someone who doesn’t want to lug around a big, awkward piece of gear, having portable tools is a definite boon on any project, which is why RigWheel’snew rail system, PortaRail, which will be showcased at NAB, is such welcomed addition to their indie-focused line of motion and mounting products. These collapsible, DIY rails aim at offering an affordable camera movement solution that will allow you to set up, tear down, pack up, and go.