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  Data Visualization and Infographics

  The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectivelty. It doesn't mean that data visualization needs to look boring to be functional or extremely sophisticated to look beautiful. To convey ideas... More... 98 Comments

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  Favicons Episode 5: The Delicate Beauties

  The New Year's Eve is a tricky time for designers. Some of us eagerly analyze deadlines, define milestones and refine the time schedule for the upcoming year. The other ones discover the need to update footers and copyright statements on their web-sites (by the... More... 46 Comments

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  Christmas Icons and Christmas Wordpress Themes

  Christmas is coming. As the holiday approaches, it's time to get into the true Christmas spirit, decorating your personal desktop and adding some Christmas flavour to your recent designs or weblogs. And to decorate them accordingly, you might want to use some... More... 90 Comments

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  Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs

  The value of icons lies in their ability to communicate with visitors or users in a more intuitive and effective way. Jakob Nielsen, the maestro of usability, postulated few years ago that "recognition rather than recall" is one of the basic heuristics for... More... 147 Comments

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  How To Choose A Logo Designer

  A well-designed logo is probably one of the most important issues when it comes to design of corporate identity. The logo has to be describable, memorable, scalable and effective without color. To fulfill these criterias is a quite hard task to accomplish which... More... 52 Comments

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  Halloween Round-Up: Wallpapers And Tutorials

  The Halloween is coming. The preparations are running. Pumpkins are being carved. And skeletons are being packed out from the closets. Since you probably want to set a perfect mood for your coming Halloween party, you might want to set up the party on your... More... 62 Comments

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  Flash-Based Galleries For Your Images

  In many situations web designers should avoid Flash and prefer usual text-based presentation. For instance, in most tasks related to pure text presentation Flash is neither necessary nor user-friendly, and it also has some serious accessibility problems: in... More... 109 Comments

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  Screensavers - Best Of

  Long, long time ago screensavers have been used to prevent the so-called screen-burn-effect — a permanent disfigurement of areas on a CRT display caused by non-moving text or graphics being displayed continuously for long periods of time. To avoid this... More... 164 Comments

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  Selected Wallpapers For Your Desktop

  If you can't live without a nice wallpaper on your desktop you might need to invest many hours in the search for the perfect one - that fits to your resolution and has an appealing theme. The quality of the desktop images is often not the one you'd praise over... More... 132 Comments

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  Creative Favicons: Tiny Artwork

  Since visual elements are easier to remember, they can be used to draw visitors' attention to the brand identity of the site. As visual indicators, favicons can establish the communication with visitors and make a web-site easier to remember and get back to once... More... 60 Comments

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  Logotrend 2007: Leaves

  In modern logo-design leaves stand for fresh ideas or - more generally - for an innovative way of thinking. In Web they are mostly used to communicate light-weight solutions as well as clean and unobtrusive designs. In fact, leaves, plants or ornaments which... More... 70 Comments

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  20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets

  User-friendly icon sets are always nice to look at and useful to have ready to hand. Since effective designers guide their users' attention using visuals, icons can (and probably should) be used in almost every project you are or will be working on. Whether for... More... 196 Comments

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  Data Visualization: Modern Approaches

  Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey... More... 426 Comments

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  Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful

  We love creative favicons. Their beauty lies in the approach a designer has chosen to put something really unique inside of the 16x16px box. Designing favicons, it's necessary to work with miniature images, and every extra pixel can be the wrong one. A good... More... 76 Comments

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  Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates

  Visual design elements can considerably improve the readability of the page. Using them, you can make it easier for your users to scan the presented content and find the information they're actually looking for. Icons can draw reader's attention to the key... More... 283 Comments