Posts tagged in ‘Design’

286 ways to delete a tag in DeliciousPosted on July 31, 2008

Delicious has finally redesigned it’s website with the re-branded, non-dotted name that we have all known over the last few years.
A good decision in my eyes as I always found it hard to remember where the dots went in the name and for long term growth and findability in these E-less, web 2.0 times it [...]

Tags: Design, Usability

Have you got the best design work in Australia?Posted on July 8, 2008

Graphic Design Worldwide create beautiful books of things like typography, web design, tshirt design, logos and pretty much any graphic design you can think of.
They have an upcoming publication called Down Under, showing:
a cross-section of fresh, innovative, surprising and new graphic design from different continents, countries and regions. Whether flyer, poster, illustrations, CD-cover or [...]

Tags: Design

Comic sans turns seriousPosted on

My second most hated font (after Times New Roman) is Comic Sans. It’s a stupidly goofy font and makes any use of it look ridiculous and/or cheap. I once stayed in an absolutely gorgeous 5 star resort in Thailand and everything was perfect - except all their marketing was in Comic Sans. It really disappointed [...]

Tags: Design

The paper webPosted on July 7, 2008

Deeplinking have a great article on original paper sketches and prototypes of popular internet applications such as Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo.

The original sketch for Flickr Places.
I find this really interesting as I’m currently working on a job where I’m wireframing using paper and I find it so difficult. The idea was it was [...]

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Moo do business cardsPosted on July 3, 2008

Some great news - Moo, who have previously printed gorgeous little photo cards, are now doing full sized business cards.

It’s US$21.99 for 50 business cards and they can take the photos straight from your Flickr stream, facebook or you can upload them yourself.
You have a photo on one side, and up to 11 lines [...]

Tags: Cool websites, Design

Molt:n Digital redesignPosted on June 25, 2008

Molt:n Digital is not new, we have been around for quite sometime working away silently in the background. When our 9-5 jobs wrapped up each day we would come home and work away on small jobs, take client phone calls on lunch breaks and occasionally attend the odd conference representing our small, soon-to-be web agency.
Well, [...]

Tags: Design, Molt:n Digital

Virgin gets itPosted on May 31, 2007

When I was working at Virgin Money I was always envious of the Virgin Mobile guys as they always had the best marketing campaigns. They’ve just launched a new one called “Are you with us or what?” and it’s one of the first marketing “splash” websites that I really really like.
It’s a pretty simple [...]

Tags: Cool websites, Design, Marketing

You can't assume what your users knowPosted on May 17, 2007

Tags: Design, Usability