The Design Update: January 2016

Sunday 31 January 2016

What are the best practices for using images in your designs?

For context:

I typically design at one extreme (simple, utilitarian) or the other (I'd simply call it "arty" but for sake of example, something like an artists site where the content is to be consumed and not interacted with or manipulated). Projects where we might not care to be mobile or user friendly.

For sites where a lot of visitor interaction is expected, I generally refrain as much as I possibly can from using images outside of absolute necessity. Things like a logo in a header and the like.

I find myself inspired to buck that trend for a project I have in my lap, using highly textured images and handwritten buttons. I expect to use rather large images to get the effect I want as making small, repeatable patterns didn't seem to work. There would essentially be a custom image for a background and a heading for every section within the body. For what amounts to a news site/blog there's never that amount of images in the average design.

I may be overthinking it but I'm unsure of the best ways to do this. Or at least in the least ugliest manner possible.

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[Serious] What do you call the type of product whose form imitates function?

This has been on my mind for a while. There's a huge trend these days of producing cheap products that emulate more valuable products. I need a name for these things.

Some examples:

Clothes with fake pockets
Products made with white metal
Ikea-class furniture; looks expensive, but only lasts a year before showing serious signs of use (particle board with laminate surface)
Cheap plastic vehicle components that are made to look like carbon fiber

Comparison words:

Knockoff: Products, often of inferior quality, made or sold under another's brand name without the brand owner’s authorization. (I.e. a cheap product made to look like a specific expensive product.)

Skeuomorph: A derivative object that retains ornamental design cues from structures that were necessary in the original. (I.e. the new version imitates the look of the old version).

The word I'm looking for applies to original products, so knockoff and skeuomorph don't fit.

Any ideas?

While we're at it, what are your thoughts on these "hollow" products?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted February 01, 2016 at 05:58AM by maxdamage4 http://ift.tt/1PskI68

Merit of using interactive pure CSS3 over JS?

I'm still in the process of learning web design in general.

As far as I understand CSS3 are capable of supporting user interaction but as the interaction becomes more complicate the code becomes more and more untidy, hacky, and exploit-ty looking, I wouldn't even recognize my own code after a few weeks.

Does CSS3 offers that superior a performance worth trading with readability for??

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I'm teaching product design live, twice a week - anyone interested?

Hello my name is Andrew, one of the product designers at Acorns, an investment app that rounds up your spare change (go download our app!).

Starting this Monday (February 1, 2016) @ 8PM PST, I will be hosting a live streaming class on nooma.tv in my channel about (digital) product design.

Every session, I will go over a topic and we will have a discussion afterwards. No design experience necessary.

Some topics that will be covered:

Elements and principles of design, including typography, color, space, texture, etc.
Design thinking and process
UI and UX for mobile and web
Sketch tutorial
Rapid prototyping
Landing a product design job
Other design resources

The scheduled sessions will be every Monday and Wednesday @ 8PM PST. I’m really excited to begin this journey with you all, looking forward to meeting everyone tomorrow night. Thanks!

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10 most common JS mistakes & how to avoid them

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First Piece to my New Interactive Web Development Guide Project! Bloks.css - Flexbox

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted February 01, 2016 at 03:25AM by Kyle772 http://ift.tt/201RD3a

Need Cover Art for a Podcast

It's for a Podcast/Youtube channel where we would discuss Film and TV. If you are interested please PM me a link to a portfolio and let me know what your rates are and hopefully we can working something out.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted February 01, 2016 at 02:55AM by Captainbravo96 http://ift.tt/1nXl2Q3

Quick Question: What is the part of a website that breaks up sections called?

I'm thinking page transition but I'm not sure.

Just for some more clarification, I am talking about the part of websites that divides different sections using an image or css, not just a block. Something like on this website (notice the diagonal colours and how it divides the different sections).

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[Flexbox Guide] New Project! Bloks.css With it's First Interactive Guide. Let me know what you think!

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Need Assistance with what Tools to Use

Thank you for taking the time to look:

I desire to make a website with a particular use. I want users to be able to create groups. They create groups by answering specific questions, for example, demographic information (A man would select "Male". So a man would be put into a group with other men. That is not my intention, just an example). Essentially, I would assume it would be a database, by definition. I have a Cliff Notes knowledge on most of the things I assume would be involved. But if you wanted to create this what would you do? Can this be more simply achieved with a CMS? Thank you. I have included basic mock-ups of what I envision: http://ift.tt/1JT9uY5

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What are some of your favorite icons? SVG or IconFont preferred.

I really enjoy fontawesome of course, and have used things like picons but I'm looking for something different.

Thanks!

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Landscape Architecture/Design

I'm interested in getting into landscape design or landscape architecture, however I have no experience in this area. I'm a horticulture major, and have the option of pursuing a masters in landscape architecture in a few years, but I haven't really ever designed anything. The horticulture program at my college is in the design school, but it is possible to pursue careers in areas such as agriculture and whatnot.

Does anyone have any advice for me? What should I do to start practicing honing my design skills?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted February 01, 2016 at 12:44AM by desmondhasabarrow http://ift.tt/1ny3sl9

Critique would be great.

This is a project that I did for school, it's actually the last project for a rudimentary design class based around Ai. Travel poster. Thing is, when it's time for the mandatory class critique, everyone turns into a bunch of back patting bullshit zero helpful advice type of people. Very frustrating. Thanks in advance guise!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted February 01, 2016 at 12:46AM by onehundredand38 http://ift.tt/1SviWSM

First (working) website I've made. Would like some critiques.

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What is this scroll experienced called?

How would you describe this scrolling experience (beyond parallax—this term has become to vague for clients who all seem to assign their own definition to it)? And how is it achieved?

Specially, I'm referring to the contents upward momentum that's a bit delayed after you scroll?

Example 1 Example 2

Thanks for any input!

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Canada Is Cool - New Project

http://CanadaIs.Cool

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wine with blended in bar code

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted January 31, 2016 at 09:52PM by gorillaz0e http://ift.tt/1QR6UTT

can someone identify this book?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted January 31, 2016 at 09:26PM by thesymbol http://ift.tt/1P6rDi0

Putting a price on my work.

I'm admittedly new to the design world, both web and graphic. A friend approached me about building a simple website for him and helping him with some branding, so I've built him a website and created a logo for the company. Anyway, the business is labor-based (junk removal), most of which I won't have any part in, but I've been offered some equity (yet to be determined) in the company to maintain the website and do some marketing work for him. I'm planning an extended backpacking trip and some passive money for work that I could do remotely would be amazing. It's a good friend and I'm learning on the fly; I'm not money-grubbing, and neither is he.

What's a reasonable percentage to ask for the work that I've put in and what's to come?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted January 31, 2016 at 09:33PM by battmrown http://ift.tt/1WVxUCi

Social Icon Hover Effect

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How many of you are using flexbox on your production sites? I was wary but according to caniuse.com only about 2% of browser usage doesn't support (ie8 and ie9)

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Nice guide for using visual loudness for better wayfinding.

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I made a free web design template- Enjoy!

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How is the job market for someone who just knows HTML/CSS/Wordpress PHP?

So I graduated with a degree in Graphic Design and taught myself HTML, CSS, and Wordpress PHP. For the last five years I have been designing a developing Wordpress sites as the sole web designer/developer at my company (occasionally working with/directing other designers/developers). I'm proficient in HTML, CSS, and PHP as it relates to Wordpress, but I don't know any other Front/backend technologies (I can use and modify someone else's JS/Jq, but I can't write something from scratch).

How is the job market for someone with my skillset? Would Front End Developer be an appropriate job listing to respond to?

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when floating an element in css, does it no longer become part of the container

Just a quick question, lets say I have a container and a navbar. The navbar has no height and has a black background. I float the nav links to the right. Does that mean it's not part of the container anymore?

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Epson 5030UB 2D/3D 1080p 3LCD Projector Submitted January 31, 2016 at 06:54PM by RawadM http://ift.tt/1Q4b9qg

Any ideas for university final project?

My fellow designers, I need ideas for my final project at university. Would appreciate your help lol. So on the 23rd of February, I have to present 3 ideas about the project. I'm not sure how that's gonna work, but I think the lecturers will pick the most interesting ideas. It could be anything, like making a book, or just branding and stuff. To be honest, I don't like branding too much, BUT if it's like musician branding than I'm fine. I'm more into advertising stuff, the campaign thing.

A few years ago, my senior made a book as her final project and until now, people are crazy about it. The book is about the 90s generation, it's in Indonesian and it's called "Generasi 90an" if you're wondering what it looks like. I have some ideas, but not sure if they're good enough. Uhmmm also I'm thinking to use reddit as my reference but still not sure how, maybe the subreddits or something. Any ideas? Somebody? ;D

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted January 31, 2016 at 06:26PM by funnie17 http://ift.tt/1PJq09l

Creating Responsive Hero Text with SVG

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CSS Protips: a great collection of some advanced and useful CSS tips (by Matt Smith)

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Design student: How to list inventions on resume?

I am a graduating industrial design student. I have about two projects that I have completed in the past year, and I am considering pursuing patents for the two inventions. For the sake of privacy, I have chosen not to include them on my web portfolio. However, I have a PDF portfolio detailing the process behind to two projects in case I ever discuss them face-to-face in an interview.

Would it make sense to list these two inventions in a specific section on my resume? I do not want to mislead anyone into thinking my projects are on my website, however, I would still like to indicate that I have these two projects and am willing to discuss them.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted January 31, 2016 at 06:04PM by Guepardita http://ift.tt/1QQBhd8

potential job need some advice

long time lurker here finally posting,

I had my first ever interview with a company that I'm both really excited about and nervous. My website isn't live, but so far they liked what they saw in both my website and portfolio piece. And I'm treating this as a second interview like any other job, but can't help but get giddy that I may finally be able to make a start at a proper career!

I've been offered the task to build simple wordpress websites (its a low end entry level position given my knowledge so far) using Bridge, a simple drag and drop theme. I have a basic knowledge of WP and a fair amount of HTML/ CSS knowledge to feel about an intermediate level.

I'm learning fast, as its currently taken me 5 months to get to this point.

The advice I'm looking for is;

How would one get familiar with WP when you have to subscribe to their services to have a practical session with the interface?

What should I know in preparation for my first day?

Anything else you guys might want to chip in on.

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Designer Bio Generator™ by Taulant Sulko lets you generate a random bio based on a formula he made from reading other designer bios on tumblr. It's all in good fun, give it a try.

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UX Notes : The Long Road to the Obvious Solution. (4 minute read)

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Anyone see on Chrome Canary dev tools, you cant have the tools open and shrink the window and see the res at the top right

Why would they remove this!?

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How to convert .eps to .svg downloaded from [http://ift.tt/1P5wVds?

Hi, has anyone worked with images from the above site? I just downloaded this image but the SVG I end up with is about 32Mb in size.

I am using inkscape on linux.

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Anyone using a stand for their Wacom Intuos?

Hi, is anyone out there using a stand for the wacom intuos(not cintiq). Seen some people use it online, but can decide whether it really helps.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted January 31, 2016 at 01:14PM by kaspervind http://ift.tt/1SREWbT

Online resume generator - DEVDIZ - Developing & Designing

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Saturday 30 January 2016

Bootstrap 3 CSS Classes Desk Reference

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Give me some opinions on my first actual website!

http://ift.tt/1VygPNh

I'm designing a shop for a website that will be published online instead of sitting on my SDD for months.

I'm still learning design (i've just been designing with my instincts) and i'd love some design tips for the site. I made sure it scales to mobile properly.

If you would like to grade my whole work so far, please grade the nav nar, page header (Banner) and the product tile (white space where products will sit, keep in mind the product in the screen shot is NOT the product design I will be using.)

Thanks!

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More sites like codepen.io

Hello could we all share sites like codepen.io where developers can get ideas and code parts.

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Anyone doing the 100 day UI design challenge?

Where you design a different user interface elements for desktop, mobile and web each day. If so, what is your experience so far. I am very tempted to do it, just not sure if I have enough time.

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[Question/Help]I'm trying to get rid of the padding on a div that's fixed at the bottom of the screen. It won't seem to go away

Hi all, I not generally a web designer; I consider myself to be a web coder. Accordingly, my CSS skills aren't exactly the best. I apologize if this seems like a rudimentary question, but it's driving me nuts.

I have a div that's fixed at the bottom of the page. I need for there to be absolutely no padding on any side. Here's a codepen and the relevant code:

<!-- CSS --> #testDiv { position: fixed; bottom: 0; width: 100%; border: 1px solid red; color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } <!-- html in body --> <div id='testDiv'>testing</div>

As you can probably see, white space appears on the top and bottom between the text and the border.

Thanks a lot, folks!

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Can we agree the hand pointer in chrome is fugly?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted January 31, 2016 at 12:49AM by cheese_wizard http://ift.tt/1WU4ggB

NYC’s Finally Trying a Subway Design That Cuts Crowding and Delays

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted January 31, 2016 at 12:29AM by vitruv http://ift.tt/1PHTkwX

Question: SEO

I will pay for a website and want it to have a good visibility on google without paying for adword. Should I ask to make it with wordpress so that I can use SEO tool or should I ask to get a custom website and then hire a SEO expert?

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Epson 5030UB 2D/3D 1080p 3LCD Projector Submitted January 30, 2016 at 11:54PM by GoaScientist http://ift.tt/1P4xUL2

Can anybody suggest a premium WordPress template for a site that posts weekly, academic content on a topic in public health?

I would really appreciate any suggestions. The premium wordpress templates I'm looking at are all "magazine-style" that presumes a far larger amount of content that I would be willing to produce.

I just want a sleek looking site that can display weekly articles.

Here are two examples of something I've been looking at: http://ift.tt/1Kic7mn http://ift.tt/1NImJWp

Would REALLY appreciate any suggestions.

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{ALL OF YOU BAD DESIGNER SHOULD KNOW THE BEST ANSWER} making selecting colors much much less painful

so bad that life is easier without images --http://ift.tt/20eKZfh

followup from

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so http://ift.tt/1Mf6gLU

was the best

1) only thing is that it needs to be by % -- BEFORE we click on a colour -- probably of 20% segments each, since i dont need excessive choices (look at google doc, etc.)

names are completely useless, the names have no linguistically logical order to them -- http://ift.tt/1ND4wz6

2) also needs to give colors that are good with it

making things WAY HARDER

adobe color wheel is confusing as FUCK -- and WAY over-complicated (TERRIBLE UX/UI) -- http://ift.tt/1vOPJGg

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[Question] title changes to a small box?

We are doing a site redesign and came across this issue where when you resize the browser window, the title box where it says "What is ICISA?" changes to this: http://ift.tt/1PpPjBq I already played around with the CSS and h2 font size but I cant get it to work... its weird. Here is the link to the page in question: http://ift.tt/1P4xdl1 Can someone give me some guidance? Thanks

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Surfing board e-commerce design

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Copying a website design

Can I copy a website's color scheme, font, etc. & can they sue me for doing it?

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[Question] CSS transition when classes are added?

I have a parent div and two divs inside of it: a sidebar and a content area. The class of nosidebar is initially applied to the parent div, which signals the sidebar to have a property right: -325px and the content to fill the screen. When the sidebar is toggled, the class of nosidebar is replaced with showsidebar and this causes the sidebar div to have property right: 0 and the content div to have right: 325px and opacity: 0.8, shifting it to the left and partially fading it out. This is all controlled by what class the parent div has.

So far this works, but when the transition happens instantly and abruptly. I would like to animate the toggle effect so that the sidebar and content divs slide in and out, and so the content div fades to a lower opacity.

Is there a way I can do this in CSS?

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