October 2010
15 posts
Design Inspiration - Fabio Sasso - Front End...
“To come up with a good design is to…try” -Fabio Lazaris
Fabio is a web designer from Brazil. He owns Abduzeedo it is a website for graphic design inspiration and tutorial for Photoshop. He said that there is three things that affects his workflow (1) necessity,(2) challenge and (3) business.
Necessity because he needs to know what to do and who he is doing it for, challenge because he...
Kevin Hale: How to Design Web Apps People Love
We are influenced by a lot of things especially the things that we see. First impressions are important. Approach new users like it’s a date and existing users like it’s a marriage. These are some of the opening statement of the speaker.
He is saying if you bore your user they won’t come back but if you put so much into it like pop-up’s that come out of nowhere the user might jump right out...
John Ashenden: How to Make It Better
This is another session in Photoshop and how to enhance the overall UI design of a website and the experience of the user when visiting a website by looking into the layout of the website using grids and making the main part or topic of the website stand out. The layout of a website is important because it stands as a guide for the user like where do I start reading? What is next? Where do I stop?...
Andrew Maier: Affordances in Modern Web Design
Before when you say ‘click’ it is the sound of a camera taking a snap shot and when you say ‘button’ it is the thing that holds a polo shirt together so when the idea of clicking a button in an application was brought up it was hard to imagine. I remember going to school and being taught how to click, double click and even right click. Today it is not needed anymore because of the need of computer...
Using jQuery to Extend CSS
The speaker talks about jQuery because it’s designer friendly, it needs little effort to understand the code syntax and it’s like choosing a guitar because there are a lot of information out there about jQuery. jQuery is a good tool because it is supported by all browsers and simplifies a HTML and CSS codes. And the most important of all it adds a little animation to a website because it enables a...
Jonathan Longnecker: Why ExpressionEngine is Great...
Marketing for Expression Engine which uses jquery and php, it designs and updates a website instantly. It is for people who want to update their websites but without the hassle of the coding part because let us be honest maintaining a website is time consuming and would require knowledge on coding. It simplifies the coding part by storing parts of a traditional HTML file into global variables...
Techniques for Creating & Using Design Resources -...
The speaker demonstrated some ways on how to create effects like splats, spray and drip. And how to imitate it as a brush in Photoshop, and then use it as effects in designs. He also advised that when doing these effects photo paper should be used because it looks much neater when scanned.
For me using Photoshop is another technique that should be learned, because Photoshop is a great tool for...
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Revolution OS
”..Sharing means your a pirate, sharing means that you will be put to jail..”-Richard Stallman
“Open Source doesn’t force people share..” Eric S. Raymond
Free Software
It generally has a copyright, owner and license and is not in the public domain because when it becomes a public domain then someone can tweak or change it and redistribute it with a...
How to Bluff Your Way in Web 2.0 Speakers: Andy...
What is Web 2.0, a lot of people have defined it but never really got the meaning correct that was the first point that the speaker said, it’s not because those people are wrong but it’s just that Web 2.0 is really hard to define. But what it can do is a lot easier to enumerate it supports social interaction, encourages user participation, enhanced user experience and open data. The speaker also...
A More Tangled Web Speaker: Eric Meyer
“The Web has won” -Eric Meyer-
The technologies that have powered the web is really being developed fast. Even HTML5 has a target completion year and that is 2022. I would be in my early 30’s by then hopefully I would have been close to being a successful (blank). But even thought they are trying to make a 16 line of code (videos) into a one liner now that is amazing.
They say that the Web is...
Panel Discussion from FOWD Conference Speakers:...
Web site design now has changed because before it was just designer-client where the designer will follow what the client wants, but now the designer has become the client himself, because they started to put inputs on the design itself, they started to give advice on the website they give advice on how user interface can be more friendly with the not so technical users. The design sometimes is...
Search User Interfaces Speaker: Professor Marti...
One of the things that I watched before just like this video is on Search and how it creates user rapport with the website. The idea was when a used goes to a website, and wants to see a specific article or item in that website then there should be a function that deals with it this is why the search button and search text box was born. Because the theory is if a user can’t see it in one website...
JavaScript: The Good Parts Speaker: Douglas...
The speaker Mr. Douglas Crockford, said that javaScript is “The world’s most misunderstood programming language but it has the broadest range of programmers because even little kids can write the code without even realizing that they are programming already.
There are a lot of good things about javaScript because it adds user interaction between the website and the user. It creates the a little...
CSS Frameworks: Make the Right Choice Speaker:...
Basically Mr. Kevin Yank talked about is his advice on designing a HTML file so that it would look better using CSS. He talked about CSS reset which basically is resetting the who HTML file into a plain text so that the designer can control the look of the HTML file, then he also talked about typographic grids which deals with fonts, then there was CSS pre-fab which are frameworks that are pre...
Design Inspiration - Fabio Sasso - Front End...
“To come up with a good design is to…try” -Fabio Lazaris
Fabio is a web designer from Brazil. He owns Abduzeedo it is a website for graphic design inspiration and tutorial for Photoshop. He said that there is three things that affects his workflow (1) necessity,(2) challenge and (3) business.
Necessity because he needs to know what to do and who he is doing it for, challenge...