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How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business
Many e-commerce sites these days tend to be loaded down with too much information on their landing pages. The reasoning for cluttered e-commerce sites is simple: the more information you can cram on the... More... 115 Comments
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Game Sites Design Survey: Examples and Current Practices
Game websites are a little bit of a mystery. You won’t find them in the popular CSS-showcases since they are seldom fully CSS-based; however, they also rarely show up in sites that collect best Flash... More... 60 Comments
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10 Futuristic User Interfaces
Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesn't matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don't manage to make user interface as intuitive and attractive as... More... 146 Comments
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Will Horizontal Layouts Return?
In the 90s, as the Web was just starting to take off, designers used horizontal layouts — rather in an experimental way, just to give users and designers an idea of what HTML was actually capable... More... 75 Comments
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Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS
Although I've been a Windows power user for years, the transition to Mac couldn't have been easier and more pleasant. I don't want to turn this article into some endless rambling about how great Mac is,... More... 245 Comments
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Design and Independence
Designers are independent. In work, mindset and lifestyle. Yet in this Web age aren't we losing independence? For most designers the first tool to start designing from is the Adobe suite, a quite... More... 79 Comments
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Pitfalls to Avoid When Designing Forms. Among them the risky reset button, radio buttons, date picker, 3D effects and subtle usage of Ajax.
Jeans Archive Icons is a free set of dock icons designed as jeans with a gold and sliver zipper. 512×512px, .png and .icns.
Mozilla has put out a call for everybody to share the vision of how we would like to see the Firefox browser and the Web in the future.
10 Free Handwriting Fonts features Sketch Rockwell, Gregs Other Hand and Imitation.
Coquette icons is a free set with curvy and colorful icons designed to get the affection of your visitors. .ico, .png, .icns, 128×128px. Backlink is necessary to use the set.
Logo Design Trends 2008 presents 15 current trends in logo design. Among them are Supernova, loops, stitch, amoeba and doodles.
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Donuts Icons Set is free and comes in 25 flavors: chocolate, glazed, powdered etc. Leopard ready, 512×512px. Formats: PNGs, Icns, Folder Icons, Ico and iContainer. Tasty!
Got It Icons Set is a free set of 115 icons based upon the well-known Tango icon set. SVGs-sources are available as well. Clean and useful.
