- Google and Bing Searches Help Us Pirate Music?27 January 2012, 5:30 pm
Of course the public is going to pirate music when 80% of our search results for music direct us to illegal sites. That’s the claim…...
- Solar Storm Smacks the Earth — And We’ve Got Video27 January 2012, 5:16 pm
A massive wave of charged particles exploded from the sun and hit Earth earlier this week in what NASA calls “the most intense solar energetic…... - 10 Best Arcade Games for Android27 January 2012, 4:54 pm
Android gamers looking for lightning-quick action and the thrill of chasing a high score should look no further. These are 10 of the best arcade games…... - Apple CEO Tim Cook Responds to Factory Condition Mistreatment, Promises to ‘Dig Deeper’27 January 2012, 4:13 pm
Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent an email to employees that addresses allegations surrounding work conditions at its supplies factories, noting that…... - Nintendo Announces Online Gaming Network27 January 2012, 3:59 pm
Nintendo users will finally soon have an online experience on par with Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. At least that’s the message from…...
- Limiting The Visibility Of WordPress Posts Via Usernames27 January 2012, 1:51 pm
Controlling who is able to view a post is a simple task once the system is established. Limiting access to certain users has several advantages, ranging from a design studio distributing artwork among various clients, or a small school arranging to have its students' homework posted online through a cheap and easy solution. The easiest method to get this system working is to make the receivers of the information subscribers (since they will not be able to p... - The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love26 January 2012, 3:35 pm
UX practitioners, both consultants and in house, sometimes conduct research. Be it usability testing or user research with a generative goal, research requires planning. To make sure product managers, developers, marketers and executives (let’s call them stakeholders) act on UX research results, planning must be crystal clear, collaborative, fast and digestible. Long plans or no plans don’t work for people.. You must be able to boil a UX research plan d... - How To Deliver Exceptional Client Service25 January 2012, 2:02 pm
We often hear companies, including Web agencies, boast about how they provide exceptional client service. But how do they define exceptional? Consider this scenario. You are hired to design and develop a new website for a retail client. The client loves the design, and the pages you develop use the latest in HTML5, CSS3 and responsive design, resulting in a website that works wonderfully across browsers and devices. The e-commerce features of the new websit... - What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design24 January 2012, 3:01 pm
Web design is a craft that is constantly evolving and yet also sometimes sabotaged. The moment a design is released, a new version is born. In the beginning, like a baby, it seems vulnerable and weak, but in time it grows up and becomes self-sufficient. Redesigning a website for its own sake doesn’t prove anything; quite the contrary, it reveals a lack of effectiveness on the part of the designer. Product design is a craft in which new versions come to li... - Introduction To Linux Commands23 January 2012, 12:02 pm
At the heart of every modern Mac and Linux computer is the “terminal.” The terminal evolved from the text-based computer terminals of the 1960s and ’70s, which themselves replaced punch cards as the main way to interact with a computer. It’s also known as the command shell, or simply “shell.” Windows has one, too, but it’s called the “command prompt” and is descended from the MS-DOS of the 1980s. Mac, Linux and Windows computers today are ...
- Building Twitter Bootstrap17 January 2012, 9:00 am
Bootstrap is an open-source front-end toolkit created to help designers and developers quickly and efficiently build great stuff online. Its goal is to provide a refined, well-documented, and extensive library of flexible design components created with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for others to build and innovate on. Today, it has grown to include dozens of components and has become the most popular project on GitHub, with more than 13,000 watchers and 2,000 forks. Mark Otto, the co-creator of Boot... - An Important Time for Design17 January 2012, 9:00 am
Design is on a roll. Client services are experiencing a major uptick in demand, seasoned design professionals are abandoning client work in favor of entrepreneurship, and designer-co-founded startups such as Kickstarter and Airbnb are taking center stage. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that design has a massive role to play in the evolution of the web and the next generation of web products. The result, says Cameron Koczon, is that designers have now been given a blank... - A Pixel Identity Crisis17 January 2012, 9:00 am
The pixel has long been the atomic particle of screen based design: a knowable, concrete unit of measurement. But layouts based on the hardware pixel are fast becoming an endangered species. Even the introduction of a new, W3C standard reference pixel, although it promises stability in the long-term, can't help us navigate the current chaos. Consider the two "standard" pixel definitions and 500 "standard" viewports your user's Android device may support. To create designs that transcend platform... - What I Learned About the Web in 201113 December 2011, 7:00 am
As the year draws to a close, we asked some A List Apart readers to tell us what they learned about the web in 2011. Together their responses summarize the joys and challenges of this magical place we call the internet. We need to continue to iterate, to embrace change, and challenge complexity to keep shipping. Above all, we must continue to reach out to one another, to teach, to support, to help, and to build the community that sustains us.... - Say No to SOPA29 November 2011, 8:00 am
A List Apart strongly opposes United States H.R.3261 AKA the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an ill-conceived lobbyist-driven piece of legislation that is technically impossible to enforce, cripplingly burdensome to support, and would, without hyperbole, destroy the internet as we know it. SOPA approaches the problem of content piracy with a broad brush, lights that brush on fire, and soaks the whole web in gasoline. If passed, SOPA will allow corporations to block the domains of websites that ar...
- How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop26 January 2012, 3:00 pm
Most of you probably know those awesome letters that were generated with 3D programs. But what about when you don’t have any particular program and you need to make 3D typography? This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop. Check it out! Editor’s note: This tutorial was originally published on Psdtuts in December of 2008. Step 1 Let’s start with a new document of 1500 pixel by 1500 pixel, and 300px/i... - Sneak Peek at Adobe Photoshop CS626 January 2012, 12:43 am
In this video, Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes gives us a sneak at Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CS6. The most dramatic change that you will notice from this video might be the darker color of the new interface (although this can be adjusted). What do you think? What features would you like to see in Photoshop CS6 when it is released some time during the first half of 2012? ... - Create a Medieval Battle Axe in Photoshop25 January 2012, 3:00 pm
Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own conce... - Quirky and Creative 2D Illustrations and Concept Art24 January 2012, 3:00 pm
Concept art plays an important role in the creation of just about any animated movie or video game. In this article we will feature some quirky and creative illustrations and concept art from some amazing artists and illustrators. Let’s take a look! Niddler – The Pirates of Dark Water Easter Goblin Old Yoda Smurf Sighting Beam Me Up Scotty Cockroach Smoko Playtime I Love My Planet Konk – The Pirates of Dark Water The Adventure Of Sanitary Ware Pinocchio-Bo... - Best Selling Photoshop Add-ons from GraphicRiver24 January 2012, 12:00 pm
Every once and a while we like to share a little love with our sister Marketplace – GraphicRiver. Plenty of Marketplace authors have cut their teeth here on Psdtuts+ and have gone on to develop outstanding portfolios. Here is our rundown of some of the best selling PhotoShop add-ons available for sale at GraphicRiver. Take a peek, get some inspiration and start selling your own Photoshop add-ons! 1. Elegant Glass Text Effects & Styles 8 Transparent Layer Styles & 3 Eleg...
- Wireframing for responsive design27 January 2012, 3:30 pm
Responsive design creates some enormous challenges, not just in build but also in layout and wireframing.... - Responsive Design Sketchbook27 January 2012, 8:18 am
I really like the look of this carefully thought out sketch pad: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0064/4612/products/responsive-blueprint_grande.png?100729 I can imagine how this could benefit the design thinking process, helping designers to remember and consider that site design should be working at many widths. Want. Thanks for subscribing to Boagworld; a web design blog, forum and podcast run by Paul [...]... - Pen and paper wireframing without the hassle26 January 2012, 4:08 pm
I love wireframing by hand especially when working collaboratively with the client. When you work on a computer only one person can wireframe at a time, but with pen and paper we can all wireframe together. The problem is that pen and paper wireframing takes a lot of redrawing. You find yourself constantly drawing and [...]... - What internal web teams can learn from the European Commission25 January 2012, 4:07 pm
Last week I was invited by the web community at the European Commission to visit them in Brussels. As you can imagine working in an organisation the size of the European Commission has some unique challenges. With over 400 websites, tens of thousands of pages and 23 languages to accommodate, it is hard to get [...]... - Does your labelling cause confusion?25 January 2012, 11:44 am
I find it fascinating to watch users interact with navigation on websites. In particular, I am always interested in how users react when they encounter a term they do not understand. Unclear labelling can lead to inaction and confusion. Lets imagine an 18 year old visiting a University website. In the navigation they encounter a [...]...
- Giveaway: 100 Custom Flyers from Next Day Flyers23 January 2012, 3:00 pm
Advertise here with BSAWe’ve partnered up again with our wonderful friends at Next Day Flyers to give away two sets of 1/4-page flyers with free shipping anywhere in the Continental U.S. Each set contains 100 flyers. Flyer printing can be used and customized for a variety of purposes including promoting a club event, marketing a small business and [...]... - The Proxority Principle in Web Design18 January 2012, 1:27 pm
Advertise here with BSAIn web design, the position of design elements and the layout of web pages is everything. So many cool, exciting techniques are available to help us lay out our designs (especially with CSS3 at our disposal) that we often forget that structure is as important as aesthetics. How do you determine where content should appear, [...]... - Giveaway: 10 Subscriptions to Mindomo (Mind-Mapping App)18 January 2012, 1:20 pm
Advertise here with BSAMindomo, a mind mapping application for brainstorming, has teamed up with us to give out 10 Premium Account subscriptions for one year (worth $65 each). Read on to see how you can win this awesome prize. ** Update: Giveaway Period Has Ended ** About Mindomo Mindomo is a simple mind mapping application, which can be [...]... - Announcement: Winners of PSD2HTML.com PSD to Conversion Services14 January 2012, 10:00 am
Advertise here with BSAWe had a great giveaway from our friends at PSD2HTML.com, a leading provider of PSD to HTML conversion services. In this post, we’d like to announce the two winners who’ve won themselves $400 and $300 worth of PSD2HTML.com services, as well as three free pages of design to mobile template conversion. The Winners The first [...]... - Giveaway: 5 Free Deals from Deals2Have10 January 2012, 3:30 pm
Advertise here with BSAOur friends at Deals2Have — a site providing great discounts on digital products for Mac enthusiasts, creative professionals and startups — is giving away five free deals to five lucky Six Revisions winners. Read on to find out how you can win! ** Update: Giveaway Period Has Ended ** About Deals2Have Deals2Have, which started in [...]...