Posts Tagged ‘Showcases’
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Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices
- December 4th, 2008
- 100 Comments
On content-heavy websites, the search box is often the most frequently used design element. From a usability point of view, irritated users use the search function as a last option when looking for specific information on a website. If a website’s content is not organized properly, an efficient search engine ...
Read more...50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs
- November 26th, 2008
- 119 Comments
Design portfolios come in various forms. Traditionally they have been print-based and something you would carry to a client pitch or meeting to showcase what you’ve done and how you do it. Today, many designers take advantage of the nature of the internet to publish and showcase ...
Read more...Billboard Top 40 Design Showcase
- November 24th, 2008
- 87 Comments
When searching for web design inspiration it’s easy to get caught up looking at the same portfolios, blogs and the typical sites that appeal to fellow designers. However, as a designer there is a strong need to be able to create a website that truly works for the client and ...
Read more...Favicons, Episode 8
- November 20th, 2008
- 38 Comments
Every now and again we showcase beautiful favicons — tiny pieces of art you’ll usually find in your browser’s address bar or when searching through your bookmarks. Favicons are important as they provide visual indicators to visitors and help them to easily associate the content with a ...
Read more...40 Exquisite Independent Film Posters
- November 19th, 2008
- 62 Comments
An independent film, traditionally speaking, is generally referred to as a movie created entirely outside the traditional Hollywood system. It is usually the kind of production where the actors double up as camera men, friends and family provide the bankroll and the director’s mom is in charge of craft ...
Read more...Showcase Of Clean And Minimalist Designs
- November 17th, 2008
- 120 Comments
Minimalism, in the context of design, refers to simple, unadorned designs that embody only the most basic and fundamental needs. In art, it is a movement that has its roots in the post-World War II era, started by highly regarded minimalist artists such as Donald Judd, ...
Read more...Newspaper Website Design: Trends And Examples
- November 11th, 2008
- 174 Comments
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. ...
Read more...Image Caption Design: Techniques and Trends
- November 4th, 2008
- 24 Comments
Image captions are an often-overlooked element of Web design. They’re often thought of more in terms of function than form. As long as they include the proper photo credits or identifying information about the image subject, not much more thought is given to them. But image captions are a great place ...
Read more...50 Beautiful Blog Designs
- October 23rd, 2008
- 110 Comments
There are things one can do a number of times without worrying about becoming boring. For instance, collecting and showcasing excellent blog designs. In this post we do it already the fifth time. Why? Web design lives in blogs; new developments appear there, that’s where the music plays. And that’s ...
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