Everyone knows that Jonathan Ive revolutionised Apple with his design of the iMac a decade ago. What many people don’t know is that Ive’s design philosophy is heavily influenced by visionary designer Dieter Rams for Braun.
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Yes an article on ‘web 2.0′ Lots of great advice and visuals hints that really are worth a quick look see. Screen grabs of design styles which are great to reference including flashes, gradient use, specular highlights.
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm#simplicity
Tips on good practice when designing for the web. Talk about: precedence, navigation, build, typography, usability, clarity and lots more!
This site also has some good links out to similar articles and great site designs.
http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/9-essential-principles-for-good-web-design/
AIGA, the professional association for design, is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice.
“Eye-tracking studies are hot in the web design world, but it can be hard to figure out how to translate the results of these studies into real design implementations. These are a few tips from eye-tracking studies that you can use to improve the design of your webpage.”
Although downloads aren’t available for MACs (yet) the BBC iPlayer website looks rather nice…
Design and create applications in one go…
http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2007/video/index.html
This is the very best blog for digital marketing I have found so far. It has something for everyone - design, innovation, strategy - the works. From how ‘Greening Your Brand in a Web 2.0 World’ and ‘Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean?’ through to bleeding edge reports from top industry types on every topic of our industry - it is a great way to stay on to of what is going on.
Check out FutureLab here.
Guys want to be him, and girls want to be with him…yes indeed - it’s Michael Dowell’s secret design resources!
Ever wondered what sites make Mike’s little black book of design? Well ladies and gents – all has been revealed. In an exclusive interview from his palatial offices in W6, Mr Michael Dowell has chosen to share his inspirations with us all at the Clicked Creative blog.
German design goodness (and Mike’s favourite) : http://www.iconwerk.de/
Good world advertising: http://www.hemmy.net/2006/10/15/creative-advertisements-around-the-world/
http://www.checklandkindleysides.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/21/creativity-spark-from-masters-of-graphic-design/
It’s shiny…it’s binary…it’s Shiny Binary! http://www.shinybinary.com/
http://www.siscottstudio.com/
http://brandnu.co.uk/index.php?showcase&ref_id=80&id_hl_obr=&id_detail_obr=288&skip=
http://dache.ch/index.php/portfolio/Logo/social_generation
Need a boost? A style boost that is…http://styleboost.com/
http://www.refreshlinks.org.uk/
http://www.mateuniverse.com/
We like that – it’s nice. http://www.itsnicethat.com/
Some Tools Links
Who’s tha font? We’re da font! http://www.dafont.com/
Consider yourself tutorialized http://www.tutorialized.com/
Looking for a royal texture? http://www.textureking.com/
Does what it says on the tin http://webdesignerstoolkit.com/
Tutorials http://psdtuts.com/
http://www.misprintedtype.com/v3/
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
Though it takes AN AGE to load, this site is well worth looking at. This guy has some beautiful design work.
This guy has saved us trawling the internet for inspiration by compiling a list of what he thinks are the best CSS design sites from this year. You can also subscribe to his blog, which might be worth doing for you designers out there…
