I don’t remember where I picked this up from, but everyone could learn a little bit about design before they start managing designers, right? 10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design View more presentations from Jason Putorti.
The other day, I was working to redesign a major part of the crowdSPRING site when I was struck with one of the most annoying design blocks I’ve had in a long time. While it still hasn’t gone completely away, a site like Visual Bits usually helps. Curated by Alex Girón, The site is simple, clean, and offers [...]
I love when they do this to ANYTHING, but this Alaska Airlines plane looks sexy with a vintage treatment: I’m especially fond of the Boston Bruins 2010 Winter Classic retro jerseys:
It seems like every single intersection in Boston has a name. Combine a few of these high-profile intersections together and you have one of Boston’s bazillion awesome neighborhood squares. Luckily, Andy Woodruff has combined these all into an awesome graphic, Boston Squared: I would love to have this framed and on my wall, especially now [...]
Justin Kan of Justin.tv in one of Inc.’s (great) “The Way I Work” articles: I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we’re doing product design. If you have eight people in the design meeting, it doesn’t work. Everybody has an opinion. Everyone wants to weigh in on what the font should look like. [...]
A great list of UI, UX, IA and design conferences all over the world. I’m sure it’s not 100% complete, but the list is massive. They’ve even included other related areas like Flash design and javascript-specific conferences. I only wish the bigger ones were tagged with specific cities instead of the annoying “Location: Multiple cities [...]
An incredible use of CSS3 to recreate the iPhone & iPad icons without using a single image file: The weather icon has several rays of light shooting from behind the sun. Each one of these rays is actually a long rectangle with a gradient that fades to transparent on either end. I used -webkit-transform:rotate to [...]
Fireworks is absolutely the best piece of software you can use to design interactive projects. Just one of the (many, many reasons which I hope to cover here eventually) is the Fireworks “Library” palette. The Library holds an unlimited amount of frequently used design elements. (If you’ve ever worked in Flash, you’re probably all-too-familiar with the [...]