Design

In this installment of my column, I’ll take a look at one of the most important visual design elements for graphic user interfaces: typography. I’ll concentrate on general guidelines for the effective use of typography in the design of applications for children between 3 and 10 years of age. What considerations do we need to take into account when working with digital typography when children are its primary interpreters?

This website and its sample code creates a template of sorts, absent of design or layout, that will help you avoid some of the major rendering problems with the most common email clients out there — Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc. While not plug and play (you know, you'll have to do some work ;-), it will provide some helpful examples and snippets that will keep your email design rendering as true-to-form as possible.

Some tricks for non-pros to help make up for UX design weaknesses.

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When we initially sat down to discuss features for FaultPress you may imagine the words "bugs, tickets, milestones, priorities" being thrown around a lot.

… If the world were a village of 100 people, how would the composition be? [via: http://www.qxm.de/gestaltung/2610/wenn-die-welt-ein-dorf-mit-100-einwohnern-waere- ]

Get our free Color Theory Poster here! It's a wallpaper or print-ready file - your choice.

Last year, we created a Color Theory Quick Reference Poster – a cheat sheet designed to give you a quick overview of color theory at a glance. It proved fairly popular with the design community, as we received our biggest bump in traffic yet from it, and it remains one of Paper Leaf Design’s most popular...

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«[…] The more I work with flexible images & grids and media queries, the more I appreciate what can be achieved. […]»

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“How did you do that?” My colleague Leigh sounded impressed. He had been working with a problem client for weeks trying to get design approval. Then I came along and was able to get signed-off in a single conference call. “Can you teach me how you did that?” he asked. I mumbled something about years of experience, but the truth was I didn’t have a clue. It just seems I can find design approval easier than most.

using a drop shadow to create a simple one-pixel offset to be a flexible and quick way to achieve an effect of depth

Explore this photo album by Bruce Jamieson on Flickr!

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