“Peculiar is a free icon package made only in CSS. It was created for sites and web applications that depend on fewer HTTP requests as possible or don’t need to use any image at all. The package contains 45 pictograms that are available in 16² pixels size. More icons are about to come in the future.”
Great article about how detailed a rendering of an object can drastically change our perception of it’s meaning.
In the design community there often seems to be this need, or this want to immediately critique a design. Critique might be too kind of a word, it’s more of a hate on a design. To immediately call something out as terrible, wrong, ridiculous, stupid or just plain dumb. In offices I’ve worked in I often hear people immediately yell out that something is “clowntown” or laugh about how terrible a design is or how horrendous a drop shadow might be.
I love reading about the design process, but this video showing the evolution of Convert for the iPhone is even better.
Absolutely love the new design. Does anyone know who did it?
Can’t. Stop. Drooling. Great iconography work here.
Friend and kickass designer/developer Shaun Inman has launched his new feed reading application Fever. It looks great and is something I’ve been hoping someone would develop for a long time. I don’t see mass adoption for something like this, but for those of you willing to dangle your feet in a little web geekery it looks fantastic. Both beautifully and smartly designed it definitely looks “hot”.
I forgot how much I enjoy Mark Pilgrim sometimes. Very well said sir, very well indeed.
A really nicely redesigned personal site for Jackson Wilkinson. He’s beta testing and using Savoy, the Django project Jeff create, I’ve contributed too, and the “magic” behind T Incorporated.
Love this. Hopefully it’ll be kept up and added to.
Love this post from Rands In Repose and it couldn’t come at a better time. I’m working on finishing up a lot of little details on a web application and it’s great to remember how important these little things are.
It’s already a fantastic resource and it looks like there are plans to add more stuff in the future. I’ve subscribed.
“Screen and Web Snapping for Mac OS X Leopard.” Looks like a great solution to something I’ve been hacking together for myself for years.
I’ve been using Instant Domain Search for years, but I like the suggestions this Domainr provides. It’s getting nearly impossible to get a good top level domain these days, hopefully this will help.
Saved so I can remember how to do this again when I setup a new machine.
Glad to see ALA is shifting to a broader design focus. I’m 100% in favor of this move, good call guys.
Basically the “safest option is to shade the alternating, individual rows of your table with a single color”. If you can’t do that stick with a horizontal rule for each table row.
I absolutely love this interactive graphic depicting the medal counts since the modern games inception in 1896. Big kudos for representing the different regions using color and a rough “map” via large circles. It’s great that you can quickly flip to just a straight numerical order too though.
“Oh! I’ve got a this problem with my email…” An absolutely perfect infographic depicting the problem our industry faces when we try and explain what we do.
Interesting new browser concept Adaptive Path did for Mozilla Labs. Lots of good, well thought out concepts but like a concept car this isn’t something we’ll be seeing anytime soon.
I love the new redesign. It’s clean, straight forward, ad free and there’s finally a character counter to let me know how long my description can be instead of being randomly being cut off. I’ve almost switched to ma.gnolia three or four time, but was always turned off by the ads. With this redesign I don’t see any reason to switch now. Well done del.icio.us design team.
A nice follow up to the previous article about budgets and website pricing on the Blue Flavor blog. It’s never easy to explain to someone how much a site costs, but this gives you a good idea what Blue Flavor generally charges.
A great stencil resource from the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. I plan on field testing these on my next project.
Glad to see it’s back, complete with a nice redesign and some “new” features like tagging and comments. It seems quaint that it didn’t have them before. A cold-water-to-the-face reminder of simpler era of the web.
Great advice from Ryan Singer over at 37 Signals. Whenever I’m building out site structures I’m constantly thinking about user tasks or “paths” as well.
A fantastic article from George Oates, one of the designers at Flickr. There’s too many quotes in there to choose just one, but it got me thinking about community design in a slightly different way.
I’ve been following along now with the project from Rob Goodlatte and his buddies. It’s not something I’m particularly interested in, but the design and concept is top notch. If you’re on Twitter and need a quick poll look no further.
