Designers

“Beta”, Does Anyone Care Any More?

By Steven Teskey on May 12th, 2006.

Whilst browsing my favorite design/standards based sites, I noticed a post about an up and coming site. I’m not going to name names, but this particular site just happened to have a “Beta” styled launch page. It was no different from any other coming …

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The Next 35 Sexiest Designed Websites You’ve Forgotten

By Phil Renaud on April 29th, 2006.

(Reposted from my site, figured it couldn’t hurt to get these great designs a bit more recognition here)

You knew it was going to happen.

Last time the CSS Reboot came to town, in November, I had included both this site (philrenaud.com) and Mixtaping.com (which is entered, coincidentally, again), …

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Designers are becoming big-headed

By Andrew Faulkner on April 20th, 2006.

After visiting a bunch of unrelated sites recently, it came to me that they all shared a common design element – huge header areas above the content. Don’t believe me? Then try these out for size:

http://www.ploink-brothers.com/
http://www.catchlight.co.nz/
http://www.danrooddesign.com/
http://en.helldesign.pl/
http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/

See what I mean? Before …

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On Transparency.

By Phil Renaud on April 17th, 2006.

I sense a designer’s dillema in the near future.

I sense it, because the next release of Internet Explorer is reported to be fully compliant with .PNG graphics and alpha transparency, and like all things that microsoft (or apple or linux or mozilla for that matter), there is certain to be …

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Design Resources of the Moment

By Phil Renaud on April 6th, 2006.

The past few weeks have yielded some pretty nice design resources. Here’s a roundup:

Very Simple CSS Tricks:  some simple, and functional bits of markup to help make your project run more smoothly. I like the idea - much akin to Slim, which I love.

CSS Float Tutorial Roundup:  …

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Robert Nyman, Jonathan Snook and Dustin Diaz - a triple interview

By Johan on March 29th, 2006.

What binds the three together? Professional webdevelopers running a weblog about webdesign, coding tips related to client-side scripting and server-side programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MYSQL, AJAX, ASP, PHP, etcetera), usability, webstandards, accessibility and webtrends.

A short introduction

Robert Nyman is a developer from Sweden running his webjournal at …

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Weekly Design Resources

By Phil Renaud on March 10th, 2006.

note: every so often, most likely weekly, I’ll be updating here at fadtastic with the best design resources that have been brought to my attention throughout the week. Most of these come to my attention either through people suggesting them via email, or by way of my …

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Is (Web) Design Art?

By Phil Renaud on March 7th, 2006.

Is Design Art? It’s the question that’s been asked by a thousand design firms and colleges to a million aspiring students, designers and aesthetic theorists alike. While most would probably hold both sides can be properly argued for in a given circumstance, and that the argument is largely subjective, I’d …

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When Distinctions ain’t so Distinct

By Phil Renaud on March 1st, 2006.

A case can be made that web professionals thrive on competition: different schools of thought on web development emerge and almost immediately compare themselves as being superior to predecessors/rivals (ie: “rails is like php, only maintainable”; “my flash app can do what your java app never could”).

It’s becoming a bit …

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The Best Design Resources you can Clear in One Sitting

By Phil Renaud on February 26th, 2006.

Already posted this over at my site, but thought it could benefit from some exposure here at fadtastic. The basic idea is that all of the major design-tutorial resources around (a great one that comes to mind is The Web Developer’s Handbook) are geared toward prolonged viewing, where …

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Better Forms

By michael on February 7th, 2006.

I just finished up an employee recognition application that really tested my usability knowledge. This web app involved tons of user interaction and required providing them with lots of feedback. Before my new gig, when I worked for an e-commerce shop, we had a core set of components …

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Eyetracking research

By michael on February 3rd, 2006.

I found interesting research involving eyetracking the other day at PoynterOnline. When I went to the home page, I wasn’t quite sure what a site about journalism had to do …

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