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11 Jul
What’s new for web designers – July 2011
Applications, Fonts, Resources
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This month’s edition of what’s new out there for web designers and developers includes a number of new smartphone apps (for both iOS and Android), as well as a few great web apps and some desktop apps.
There are also new tools and resources for web design and development, and twenty great new free and paid fonts.
As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.
And if you have an app or other resource you’d like to see included next month, tweet it to @cameron_chapman for consideration. Read more
28 Oct
How to Design a Great User Interface
Applications, Design, User Interface
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When designing a web app, functionality is often placed above everything else. For the most part, this is a good thing.
People (mostly) use apps because they’re useful, not because they look pretty. But that doesn’t mean you can ignore good UI design, or just slap together a generic-looking user interface. Good UI design adds to the overall user satisfaction of any web app.
Good UI design is, in many ways, similar to good web design. Principles of color theory, negative space, and layout all still apply. But UI design requires a bit more thought in many cases due to the interactivity it requires.
Visitors won’t just be looking at your site; they’ll be interacting with it, sometimes in ways you didn’t expect. It’s vital that you take the time to really explore UI design prior to embarking on a web app design.
Below are a number of principles and ideas for designing a great user interface. Read more
14 Sep
20+ New Apps and Websites for Designers
Sep. 2010
Applications, Compilation, Websites
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New apps and websites seem to appear on an almost-daily basis.
Trying to find the best ones each week or month can be tough, especially considering how many come out that aren’t that great.
In this post we’ve compiled some of the best apps and websites that have come out recently.
Some are apps closely tied to a web designer’s daily work, while others aren’t likely to be used as often, but are still useful.
As always, if we’ve missed something, please let us know in the comments.
And if you know of an app you’d like included in the next roundup, please tweet it to @cameron_chapman. Read more
11 Aug
20+ New Apps and Websites for Designers
Applications, Compilation, Websites
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New apps and websites seem to appear on an almost-daily basis.
Trying to find the best ones each week or month can be tough, especially considering how many come out that aren’t that great.
Here we’ve compiled some of the best apps and websites that have come out in the past few months.
Some are apps closely tied to a web designer’s daily work, while others aren’t likely to be used as often, but are still useful.
If you want to share a recent web app or website useful to designers, please send a tweet to @cameron_chapman for inclusion in our next monthly roundup. Read more
17 Nov
WDD Launches Mobile Version with Mobify
Applications, Compatibility, iPhone
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Today we’re pleased to announce the official launch of the mobile version of Webdesigner Depot.
Thanks to the awesome team and service of Mobify, we were able to easily deploy a mobile version for WDD, which loads extremely quickly and makes it easy to browse our content when you’re on the go on your mobile phone.
Why did we create a mobile version? Mobile access is growing 30% every year. While WDD was optimized to load quickly on your desktop, the same format is not best suited to a mobile device. A more streamlined version was needed, and that’s when Mobify came to our rescue.
The mobile version now carries specially optimized images that load quickly on your mobile phone as opposed to loading the full sized images which are better suited for broadband connections. Read more
13 Jul
40 Great Adobe AIR Applications for Designers and Developers
Applications, Web Designers, Web Developers
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Adobe AIR is one of the most under-appreciated application platforms, but the number of applications available for AIR make it incredibly useful.
There are apps for everything from business to shopping to image management to video editing.
And plenty of applications are useful to designers and developers, including HTML text editors, Flickr search apps, color palette management tools and even ones to help with the business side of the industry.
Below are 40 awesome AIR apps that we have selected to help you streamline your design and development workflow. Read more
3 Jun
25 Awesome Facebook Apps for Designers
Applications, Facebook, Web Designers
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Facebook might not have all the glittery text and obnoxious backgrounds that MySpace has, but it still has its fair share of useless apps.
This is especially true if you have ever tried to search for creative Facebook apps or those that may be of interest to creative people.
If you have ever searched for such a thing, you have no doubt realized that there is an abundance of useless apps. This is the reason that I went through just about every app on Facebook to find the very few that were best suited for creative individuals, or had some sort of visual flair about them.
So here are 25 awesome Facebook applications that most designers will enjoy in their Facebook pages. Read more
27 Apr
40 Awesome iPhone Application Websites
Applications, Design, iPhone
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iPhone applications are hotter than ever. So how do these applications stand out and get noticed?
One great way to do this is by creating a great website design that showcases these applications in the best possible way.
These sites are usually very focused, professional and clean. You will also notice that there’s usually a video displayed in an iPhone casing that shows how these applications are used.
In this post we bring you 40 excellent websites designed to showcase iPhone and iPod touch applications. Read more