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I won't say how much I get used to working with Balsamiq user-interface design tool at work when I need to approve any of UI part during the call or I have only 2 hours to complete the challenge. I would recommend this software to any designer or a company to reduce the time spend on wireframe prototyping. Also you will get a powerful results that won't confuse your customer with an obvious question "Is that a design?". They will love it and take the process of signing off much easy. Actually you can work easily with online Balsamiq Demo, but don't put off the chance to work and save graphics easily. Thanks to Balsamiq for the licensed copy and now I can prototype new Designcollector much easier!
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Completely web developing post. Few years ago, I was a huge fan of sIFR (flash font replacement) technology , spending days and night, writing articles and reviews on how to make siFR developing easier and web typography rich and posh. Hence I had to remove it from this site cos of some load issue. Even now sIFR 3.0 has a huge army of fans and users. BUT earlier last year small team leaded by Jeffry Veen (big thanks to our company for the chance to see them life at @Media2006-2007 in London) started to developing revolutionary solution for making good typography on the web. I won't concentrate much on details but today Typekit project was opened and is ready to enrich your websites with licensed and very good typography.
Check Designcollector TV to see live preview of Typekit technology.
Новость исключительно для веб дизайнеров и девелоперов. Как вы можете помнить, я был давним поклонником и адептом технологии sIFR (поддержка уникальных шрифтов на сайте вместо стандартных), писал ряд статей и всячески продвигал технологию. Но по собственным причинам интерес к технологии постепенно угас, но она живет и уже обновилась до версии sIFR 3.0. НО пост совсем не об этом. Год назад в талантливой голове Джефри Вина (спасибо родной компании за возможность увидеть его воочию на конференциях @Media London 2006-2007) зародилась идея сделать жизнь веб-дизайнеров легче, а сайты красивее и лучше. И так - встречайте Typekit - уникальная библиотека шрифтов для создания собственных стилей на сайте. Само собой вы будуете лишены геморроя по установке и настройке (как это было с sIFR2.0), но есть несколько нюансов о которых я не буду пока распостранятся. Смотрите, читайте, применяйте и делайте сайты красивее.
Recently spotted new project from 37 signals "Haystack: Find the right web designer for your next project" - really great idea and worth to mention its collaboration concept. If you a right designer than start advertising yourself on Haystack immediately.
На днях получил сообщение от небезызвестных деятелей веб-маркетинга и тайм-менеджемента 37signals. Совсем недавно они запустили сервис для веб-дизайнеров, где можно разместить объявление о своих услугах, портфолио и стоимости работ. Безусловно внутренняя модерация присутствует, но объяснить наличие там всего шести дизайнеров из России я пока не могу. Дерзайте!
Useful tool for fashion and graphic designers. Полезный инструмент для графических и фэшн-дизайнеров.
Shaun Inman - respected father of sIFR (originally i(nman)F(lash)R(eplacement) tool for better web typography) has updated personal playground called "com/pact" and stuffed with personal and commercial projects like Mint statistics or Fever saver for overcrowd feed readers (I'm going to dig this, cos my Google Reader soon will blast my head with 150 feeds) and at last Shortwave solution for bookmarkleting on the web. Shaun is always full of new ideas and is happy to share them with you on "com/pact"
Swissmiss: "Typedia is a brand-new community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type."
Новая энциклопедия шрифтов Typedia раскроет историю создания известных шрифтов и биографии мастеров типографики.
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My two pence for essential collection of 40 Free and Useful GUI Icons sets for Web Designers. Count in designer from Google with his AMAZING free set of iPhone icons. That was Joseph Wain. And also take a look at Iconza by Turbomilk where you can customise a colour of an icon set!
Как дополнение к посту дня в сети "40 бесплатных наборов иконок для веб-дизайнеров" мы предлагаем отменный набор иконок для iPhone от дизайнера из Гугл - Joseph Wain. И конечно же пока уникальный в своем роде проект Иконза от Турбомилка!
While creating personal portfolio designers always facing with the question "How to present your my in unique way?", and they choose their personal way that day to day become a trend in showcasing. Among the standard way of saving the artworks as full-bleed JPG images or making dull screen shots of a websites with a reflection effects, you can go to the realistic manners of showcasing calling to the tactile sense, not only to the visual. We have grouped common ways of showcasing that could be easily translated as the next trends.
The Served is the awesome platform made by mighty Behance. The Served sites bring you a steady supply of top quality creative work, with each site streaming fresh projects in specific categories Photography Served, Motion Served, Industrial Served, Fashion Served and Typography Served. To deliver this work to you, they comb through projects from the portfolios of the most talented creative people and teams around the world. They then serve up the best of what they find -at each of the Served sites, and in their weekly and monthly Served emails.
Не так давно мы обозревали платформу Typography Served, основанную на отборе лучших проектов по теме с портала Behance. Оказалось, что это не последний проект, а существует целая сеть The Served, которая объединяет платформы Photography Served, Motion Served, Industrial Served, Fashion Served and Typography Served. Доступность отборного контента с Behance теперь просто потрясает!
