The Design Update

Monday, 30 November 2015

Try to Avoid Common Mistakes While Thinking About an Ecommerce Website Design

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Do you sometimes wish you never learned design because of the way it changed your view of the world?

A stretched rubber band never returns to its original shape...

This is probably just a random self post, but I thought I'd just put it out there. So, I went to design school for about two and a half years, jumped into 3 internships during that time, and worked professionally for about 10 years afterwards. During that whole time, I delved deeper and deeper into the psychology behind all aspects of design, marketing, and advertising. It trained to to target, segment, manipulate, persuade, etc. And that left me seeing the world in a very different light. I can't enjoy anything anymore because I can't help but think that everything is manufactured to tug at your emotions, nothing is genuine. I see my kid's faces light up when they experience something, like a product or toy, and my immediate reaction is, "yeah of course you feel that way. That how it was designed." But naturally I just keep my mouth shut. Why destroy that joy for them? So sometimes I wish I wasn't so hyper aware of everything. I wish I had that sense of wonderment back. Sorry, not trying to be a Debbie downer. It's just a realization I been having getting closer to the holidays.

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web compamny credit in the footer?

Hi - I've seen a lot of webdesigners put their credit on some clients website, in the footer.

What do you think about that? does it generate a lot of trafic for new customers?

I don't really like the solution, but i just started working freelance and could use some more work.. e

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Help with first app UI design project

So I've finally got my first app ui project. I'm confident in my skills but since I've only designed and developed for the web before I have questions about app ui design.

I've been upfront with the client about my lack of experience but he's liked my previous work. I am only doing the design right now and no coding whatsoever. The clients plan is to get this right before going to dev and then having us interact to solve any design requirements during dev.

I've looked on the web for guides but the information is too scattered or seems to differ from blog to blog.

So here are my questions and please be gentle if they are very dumb.

What does the final design file sent to the developers contain? Is it just a bunch of PSDs? How different is the design file for ios from Android?
How do I show transitions? Like a menu popping out or some such. Is it like a document I write or something else?
Do I make different sizes of screens for different versions of Android/different phone sizes?

Would appreciate the help.

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100 Days UI Challenge - FREE (all PSD resources and a few HTML-based version of them are FREE to download)

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[Discussion] The Mac is to Graphic Design what the Electric Guitar was to early Rock and Roll.

I'm doing my dissertation at the moment. Pouring over one after another graphic design tomes and the Mac keeps cropping up in introductions.

Countless times I've read that the Mac is almost placed on this godly pedestal to be viewed as awesome and fundamental in graphic design.

Of course when the Mac came out it fundamentally changed how designers worked, but am I missing something when I say, that computer aided design changed how we work and not specifically the Mac?

I'll put on record that I use a Surface. I don't dislike Macs, I use them when I need to work on a larger screen, as that is what my University provides. But I see them as no different to other PCs. They're very well made machines but I don't see why they're given this infallible majesty.

At the end of the day, without Adobe or other software, Macs are about as useful to Graphic Designers as Books are, research machines.

I'm not trying to start some kind of flame war of Windows V Mac or anything similar, I'm just interested to see what peoples views are on our industry almost perpetuating this blind brand loyalty to tge possible detriment of other tools.

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What could be causing such a long TTFB on random objects like this? Running off a self-hosted IIS 8 server.

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