MetaFilter posts tagged with WebDesign

the government is hir^H^H^Hprocuring web designers — that is all

kliuless — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:56:11 -0800

Expert Labs
[mefi's own] Anil Dash's new government 2.0 incubator project (via waxy) At least three Obama big wigs -- Goolsbee, Sunstein, Podesta -- have called for an iPod gov't, "an effort to rethink public services and national regulations in ways that will make things far simpler and more user-friendly." Well, it looks like anildash has been enlisted to digitize democracy and put the social (transparency & accountability) into government. previously 1 | 2 | 3

The Incompetence of American Airlines and the fate of Mr. X

tippiedog — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:10:28 -0800

American Airlines fires AA.com designer for reaching out to customer 1.) Graphic designer and blogger has bad experience with AA.com, 2.) Designer mocks up AA.com page design and blogs about it, 3.) AA.com UX designer emails blogger with info about challenges the AA.com web team faces, 4.) Blogger posts UX designer's response (anonymously), 5.) American Airlines figures out who UX designer is and fires him/her for talking. The info that the AA UX designer shared was certainly not flattering to the company, but in my opinion at least, it was not atypical of the challenges in large IT organizations.

I know hosting costs are high, but...

Vhanudux — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:33:48 -0800

Ad agencies often have bizarre, unorthodox websites. But how about an agency that moves its entire website over to YouTube?

Patterns for the Color Blind

netbros — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:44:59 -0800

About 8% of the male population has some sort of color vision deficiency. The color blind are unable to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites. The patterns and examples on We Are Color Blind help developers create websites the color deficient can use with minimal problems. Take a color vision test to see where you stand. 50 facts about color blindness.

CSS3 Now

netbros — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:15:23 -0800

Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3. Why can’t we make use of the rich CSS3 features and tools available in modern web browsers and take the quality of web designs to the next level? It’s time to introduce CSS3 features into projects and not be afraid to gradually incorporate CSS3 properties and selectors in style sheets.

MoMA Redux

netbros — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:34:19 -0800

The Museum of Modern Art began working in late 2007 to renovate its Web site substantially for the first time since 2002. It knew that it wouldn’t be just updating a few pieces — it would be entering a whole new era. Earlier this month, the new site launched, and is an almost complete reconstruction of how the museum presents itself online. It features livelier images from its collection and exhibitions, increased use of video and the new interactive calendars and maps.

Bowman quits Google

dw — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:35:45 -0800

I’m thankful for the opportunity I had to work at Google. I learned more than I thought I would.... But I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data.

And with that Douglas Bowman, the great web designer and CSS guru whose hiring was considered a big coup three years ago, quits Google for Twitter. (MeFi's own) Joe Clark approves. Bowman also confirms the "41 shades of blue" story is true -- Google can't decide on one shade of blue to use on the site, so they're experimenting with 41. (via Zeldman)

The Film and Arts Online Magazine

netbros — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:43:13 -0800

Scene 360 is an online film and arts magazine, profiling and interviewing artists & web designers, filmmakers and writers.

Pixel Inspiration

netbros — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:27:38 -0800

RGB Garden is a purely design based web design gallery and web designers community featuring beautiful CSS and Flash based websites. They also feature design related articles and downloads. Check out the developer's personal garden while you're at it.

Freelance Advice and Jobs

netbros — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:19:41 -0800

FreelanceSwitch covers many of the topics freelancers need to know about with their daily articles and tips. They run a freelance job board and have regular podcasts so you can learn a little something while you work or commute. Check out the FreelanceSwitch forums for support and advice from other freelancers, or check out their resources section. FreelanceSwitch has been mentioned previously on AskMe.

Templates for Rapid Interactive Prototyping

netbros — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:49:01 -0800

This used to be really hard with CSS. Fluid 960 Grid System: Up to 16-column grid design that is flexible and fluid. Created by Stephen Bau, based on the 960 Grid System by Nathan Smith. [previously]

networking 2.0 - social media how-to tips and resources

nickyskye — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:04:09 -0800

How To Do Almost Anything With Social Media from Mashable. All kinds of practical tips and tons of useful link resources for personal or business uses. At the bottom of the page are additional links to things like 24 Most Underrated Websites of 2008 l How to Find a Babysitter Online l How to Find Your Way Around Any New City.

Smashing Magazine Comes Through Again

netbros — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:46:15 -0800

Newspaper Website Design: Trends And Examples. News websites can be intriguing to examine from a design perspective. Regardless of what type of news they cover, they all face the challenge of displaying a huge amount of content on the home page, which creates plenty of layout, usability and navigational challenges for the designer. The lessons that can be learned from examining how news websites address these challenges can be valuable for designers who work with other types of websites, including ones with blog theme designs.

visualizing data

nickyskye — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:01:53 -0800

20 Useful Visualization Libraries from the excellent A Beautiful WWW. Well, not entirely limited to libraries. Useful stuff for visualization practitioners sounded a little non-specific, though. These are all freely available. A Beautiful WWW created by Todd Holloway.

picturing childhood

nickyskye — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:29:33 -0800

FairyTaleFilter: SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations, 1,600 folktales & fairy tales from around the world in more than 40 full-text eBooks. Fairy Tale timeline. l Women Children's Book Illustrators l The Evolution of the Illustrated Children's Book l Some really beautiful free graphics and clipart from Grandma's Graphics. Rare 1923 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. Three More Early Tenggren Books Samples of images: exotic, dream-like, odd, fun, charming, cool, avatars. Previously

Tiled Background Designer

Dave Faris — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:38:05 -0800

Tiled Background Designer is just a small, useful tool to create patterns. Experiment with pictures, colors, textures and transparency to get best result.

Design Ideas, Web Trends, and Tutorials

netbros — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:29:38 -0800

Web Designer Wall is the personal weblog of Nick La who is N.Design Studio. He talks about design ideas he has, design tutorials from Photoshop to CSS, etc., and trends in modern web design. (see previous)

The Employable Web Designer

netbros — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:07:02 -0800

The Employable Web Designer ― Andy Rutledge at Design View constructs a list of suggestions to help aspiring designers better craft their own preparedness and, if necessary, adjust their degree plans toward a more effective and responsive result in the web design field. (previously) It is important to note that tools do not make the designer.

Interactive 3D concept mapping...does your brain work like this?

Miko — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:04:06 -0800

Family Tree of the Greek Gods is a site using a visual organizer (now in beta) called Spicy Nodes. They call it a "natural and inviting" way to present information in "nuggets" that move in virtual space as you view them one by one. Another example: Daylight Savings Time.

A Portrait of the Intertubes as a Child

desjardins — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:53:16 -0800

What did the Internet look like in 1996? "...very few web designers had even the most rudimentary of aesthetic sensibilities, and nearly half of them were clinically retarded."

Best-Designed Sites on the Web by Popular Vote

MattS — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:14:25 -0800

CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not. Except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites. It's actually a pretty nice way to check out good design on the web. It's also the key combo to do a screenshot on a mac.

Best of Web... or so it claims

psmealey — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:20:58 -0800

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What is quality design means to us? Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity. Also, Best of CSS design for 2007.

So what is web design?

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:41:29 -0800

Jeffrey Zeldman on what web design is and isn't.

MakeMyLogoBigger Cream

deern the headlice — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:06:15 -0800

MakeMyLogoBigger Cream is a clinically proven formula which embiggens your logo, gets rid of annoying whitespace, adds SEO magic crystals and reams of powerful marketing text! See Also.

Google for Google's Sake

armoured-ant — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:55:14 -0800

If Google was designed for Google.