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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
10 Aug
Winners of Bundle Hunt Licenses
Contest, Freebies
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For the past week, we’ve been running Bundle Hunt’s giveaway of 5 licenses of premium products and services.
As you know Bundle Hunt is a premium resource pack aimed at empowering the creative community, offering more than $1,400 worth of outstanding apps, templates, icons, eBooks, hosting plans and premium memberships, all for less than $50. The bundle will be available only until August 16th.
Today we have the results of the contest and 5 lucky winners will get a great bundle of goodies.
The winners were selected at random and you can see the results after the jump. Read more
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Stop Designing Aesthetics, Start Designing Emotions
Design, Usability, Web Design
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Despite the somewhat provocative title, you shouldn’t really stop designing aesthetics.
Gradients and colors and contrast are all good, but there’s a more important side to web design that many people overlook most of the time: Designing emotions.
Discussing emotion in design is a bit of a hot topic at the moment, it seems to be popping up in more and more blog posts and speaker sessions. In fact I saw at least three different web designers say that it was the subject of the talk which they had recently submitted for next year’s SXSWi.
So what’s all the fuss about? Today we’ll take a look at what that means, how you can do it and why you should. This is taking design to the next level, beyond the norm. Read more
8 Aug
Our Favorite Tweets of the Week
Aug 1-Aug 7, 2010
Best Of, Compilation, Twitter
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Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.
Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.
To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot Read more
7 Aug
Comics of the Week #37
Comics, Funny, Humor
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Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.
These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.
So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons.
Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own… Read more
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6 Aug
40 Colorful and Abstract iPad Wallpapers
Apple, Compilation, Wallpapers
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At this stage, I’m sure not a single reader here needs a definition of Apple’s new revolutionary device; the iPad.
You all know what it is, and you all know what it does – whether you see a purpose for it or not. It hasn’t been around for all that long, in fact only a matter of weeks in some countries, yet iPad owners already have a huge selection of inspirational and beautiful backgrounds to choose from to brighten up their iPads, both digital and photographic ones.
Please note that iPad wallpapers are square (their default size is 1024×1024 pixels) so that they work both vertically and horizontally when the iPad is flipped from side to side.
This round-up consists of 40 quality abstract and colorful iPad wallpapers and backgrounds, ready for you to download and use for free.
Read more
4 Aug
Building The Community: WordPress 3.org
Community, Web Design, WordPress
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With the recent release of WordPress 3.0 we’re entering a very exciting time.
For the first time in the history of the platform, nobody is working on the next version.
All development outside of essential bug fixing has been stopped… and 3.1 won’t even start development until the beginning of September.
The reason? Well, the core contributors aren’t taking a vacation to Hawaii, in fact they’re doing something much less relaxing: working on the WordPress community.
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