Nov 16
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People smiling and laughing about doing something super ordinary… What good design should be.
-CC
Nov 16
Nice find CC.
Nov 16
Barcodes grace almost every product for sale. Given how much package real estate they command, why shouldn’t they look cool?
Since 2005, D-Barcode has been creating custom barcodes for a mostly Japanese clientele. They’ve even begun selling their wares to anyone who wants to license them, starting at $1,500 for the design, and $200 a year for licensing. A custom or exclusive use code will run upwards of $4,000–but given that companies spend millions on designing a single package, why don’t we see more detailed thinking like this? Middle managers spend weeks arguing about kerning–it’d be better if they spent more time rethinking every inch of such highly prized real estate.
Nov 03
The difference between good and great webdesign is relatively small. The average person may not be able to explain the tangible differences that make up great design, but they can usually spot a design they like. By examining some awesome sites, I’ll attempt to put my finger on some of the small details that make up the difference.
A little while back I wrote an article about the 4 Principles of Good Design for Websites, this article is somewhat of a continuation of those principles. In that article I went into detail about the important roles that contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity play in webdesign. This article will piggy back on those principles as I examine 6 ways you can take your webdesign from good to great.
This post is chock full of awesome examples. I made a conscience effort to only pick sites that were great all the way around.
May 09
This Custom Search Engine searches various websites, such as:
* Deviantart
* Bittbox
* Vecteezey
* …see the complete list
to bring you the best design resources on the web.
Oct 29
Logo Envy… the curse of "Pinky and the Brain".
"It should span the width of the page. No, maybe the page is too small. No… turn the page sideways. Ah, what the heck, just make it a two page spread."
Clients want their logos BIG. The bigger, the better. In some cases, like one of my clients, they want a whole collection of logos… EVERYWHERE!!! Boohahaha! The problem is a basic one. Somewhere, someone let it fall that the logo makes the brand. If people get to recognise my logo, they'll love my product.
It's the average Joe way of achieving "Brand Awareness." Joe is saying; "If I make my logo really BIG, and put it everywhere, people will notice and start flocking to my business."
What clients fail to realise is that the logo in any part of advertising is like your signature at the bottom of a letter. It says, "sincerely Brand A". Make the whole letter your signature and people will go; "Sincerely WHAT?" It's the WHAT that matters. The WHAT makes or breaks you.
Your logo can be hot pink and in Comic Sans, if the WHAT hits the mark, your clients won't care about the hot pink. As long as you don't stick it on their rear window.
And then there's branded clothing…
Sep 20
I am pretty excited about this one. We have long been able to use a JavaScript API to do read only work on GData feeds from Google. That is all well and good, but sometimes you want to be able to access feeds that require authentication, or be able to write and update data in feeds.
Well, now you can. The GData team has released a GData JavaScript Client Library. The first service available is Google Calendar, and we can hope for more to come.
This cross-domain, secure, access seems similar to Subspace, but it is actually live right now. Having a service such as Google Calendar using this is a great step forward, as you know it has been through a thorough security review.
Authentication happens via AuthSub, and you end up using new APIs such as:
JAVASCRIPT:
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function logMeIn() {
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scope = "http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds";
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var token = google.accounts.user.login(scope);
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}
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function setupMyService() {
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var myService =
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new google.gdata.calendar.CalendarService('exampleCo-exampleApp-1');
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logMeIn();
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return myService;
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}
When google.accounts.user.login(..) occurs, it will send you to Google to authenticate. A best practice is to provide a login button or other user input mechanism to prompt the user to start the login process manually. If, instead, you call google.accounts.user.login() immediately after loading, without waiting for user interaction, then the first thing the user sees on arrival at your page is a Google login page. If the user decides not to log in, then Google does not direct them back to your page; so from the user's point of view, they tried to visit your page but were sent away and never sent back. This scenario may be confusing and frustrating to users. Note that the example code above does call google.accounts.user.login() immediately after loading, to keep the example simple, but we don't recommend this approach for real-world client applications.
I am excited about this, as it means that you can write a rich Ajax client that doesn't need server-side proxies to do these things, which traditional was the only solution. Now the server-less model can grow even more.
I got to sit down with Jun Yang, who worked on this code, and got his take:
[via Ajaxian]
Sep 06
Your business card carries the brand of your company and represents yourself, a well designed and printed card can impress and make people take notice and remember you which is what you’re aiming for. A badly designed or printed card can leave a bad impression or even worse be simply forgotten.
Im currently researching creative business cards as I felt it’s about time I made some up for my company, there are many examples of great business cards and today we will be showcasing 15 of the best, Enjoy …
Simplebits – When I was beginning to research this topic, the first I thought of was Dan Cederholm’s rebrand for Simplebits – great type and logo letter-pressed into good quality card makes this one of my favourites
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