Probably improving the usability of your website more than its actual design, paper prototyping is a very important step in internet creation processes. The Deeplinking blog wrote a great post showcasing some of the web’s big sites prototypes, such as Twitter’s sketches that you can see in the image above. When I was in design […]

A nice post on the Official Gmail Blog just proves once again that designing a single functionality for a popular web application isn’t as simple as it looks. The process they went through is intersting, and I must say that I truly hope that the Hotmail team did read it.

After my graphic design school I quickly started to gain interest in webdesign, I also quickly started to get frustrated by the limitations of web typography. The first thing I did was head to flash to be able to use any font I wanted, until I did understand why it wasn’t a good idea to […]

When you are a large multinational company like Google, the slightest changes in your identity will quickly be noticed. A few week ago, the big capital “G” that was used as a favicon on every google site turned into an ugly lower-case “g”. That tiny event gave birth to tons of reactions on blogs or […]

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Happy Cyclope is a 2 columns, easy-to-customize wordpress theme. It is of course widget ready and WordPress 2.5 ready, but hasn’t been tested with previous versions. Categories and archives pages are presented as lists, which makes it nice for sites with a lot of content. The header is made of two images, one for the […]

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If you are reading blogs, there are good chances that you already know about RSS. Anyway, DailyBlogTips organized a RSS awareness day to help the expanding of this technology’s usage. I will not explain what RSS is here, so if you don’t know anything about it, just go there. So what can designers do with […]

The RSS awareness day is a great initiative by Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips. The goal is to spread the word about RSS, how to use it and why you should use it. If you are not using RSS yet, you should definitely take a look at the RSS day homepage.

I was planning to write a review of Coda, the amazing one-window web development software by Panic, but Shawn Blanc just wrote an extensive one. Since I am lazy and I wouldn’t do any better, I will not write my review and just link to Shawn’s.

if your visitors want to listen music they will listen their mp3, your site is not a jukebox. In fact they most likely already are listening music and yours is only mixing with it, creating an unbearable and unwanted musical chaos. I could make every word of this rant mine.

Design View has an interesting article on bad layout conventions, check it out.

Kollermedia has gathered a great list of jQuery plugins. You’ll find there everything you may need from this lightweight Javascript library: form validation, color picker, inline editors, image gallery, tooltips… and much more! Via Stylegala.

Drawing by FMinus Accessibility is an issue in almost every aspect of design. Architecture is probably the most discussed area even though it is still hard to access buildings when in a wheelchair. However, I’ll just focus on graphic design and web design. Graphic design When doing print design, you always have to make sure […]