Clicked Blog » design http://blog.clickedcreative.com An intelligent approach to digital creative Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:10:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The philosophy behind Apple design… http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/15/the-philosophy-behind-apple-design/ http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/15/the-philosophy-behind-apple-design/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:14:53 +0000 matt http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/15/the-philosophy-behind-apple-design/ Braun ipod

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.

Click HERE to read article

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CSS Heaven is all about Fresh and innovative CSS / XHTML web designs submitted by web designers from around the world.

At CSS heaven we have one objective to provide you with a central resource to view a wide range of eye catching and innovative web designs plus inspire you to create new and exciting web designs.

http://www.cssheaven.com

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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

]]> http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/10/web-20-how-to-design-guide/feed/ 0 9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/10/9-essential-principles-for-good-web-design/ http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/10/9-essential-principles-for-good-web-design/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:54:58 +0000 mike http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/10/9-essential-principles-for-good-web-design/ 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/

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]]> http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/10/9-essential-principles-for-good-web-design/feed/ 0 AIGA – the professional association for design http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/10/aiga-the-professional-association-for-design/ http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/10/aiga-the-professional-association-for-design/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:24:48 +0000 Kevin http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/10/aiga-the-professional-association-for-design/ AIGA

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.

http://www.aiga.org/

]]> http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/10/aiga-the-professional-association-for-design/feed/ 0 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/09/23-actionable-lessons-from-eye-tracking-studies/ http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/09/23-actionable-lessons-from-eye-tracking-studies/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:19:35 +0000 Kevin http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/09/23-actionable-lessons-from-eye-tracking-studies/ “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.”

http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/scientific-web-design-23-actionable-lessons-from-eye-tracking-studies/

]]> http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/09/23-actionable-lessons-from-eye-tracking-studies/feed/ 0 BBC iPlayer http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/07/bbc-iplayer/ http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/07/bbc-iplayer/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:27:56 +0000 Kevin http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2008/01/07/bbc-iplayer/ Although downloads aren’t available for MACs (yet) the BBC iPlayer website looks rather nice…
BBC iPlayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

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]]> http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2007/12/18/a-clever-business-card/feed/ 0 Adobe Thermo http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2007/12/12/adobe-thermo/ http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2007/12/12/adobe-thermo/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:53:52 +0000 Kevin http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2007/12/12/adobe-thermo/ Design and create applications in one go…
http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2007/video/index.html

]]> http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2007/12/12/adobe-thermo/feed/ 0 FutureLab: a seriously useful blog http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2007/12/05/futurelab-a-seriously-useful-blog/ http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2007/12/05/futurelab-a-seriously-useful-blog/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:35:59 +0000 matt http://blog.clickedcreative.com/2007/12/05/futurelab-a-seriously-useful-blog/ FutureLab

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.

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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/

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Lurvely design

Click here to take a peek.

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Take a look at the sites here.

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