Android is an attractive platform for developers, but not all designers share the enthusiasm. Making an app look and feel great across hundreds of devices with different combinations of screen size, pixel density and aspect ratio is no mean feat. Android’s diversity provides plenty of challenges, but creating apps that run on an entire ecosystem of devices is rewarding too.
Responsive designs are all the hype in Web development communities nowadays. With videos becoming an important marketing tool on many websites, there is a growing need to incorporate responsive videos into these designs. Responsive videos are elastic and are especially favored where web pages will be viewed on different screen sizes using a variety of browsers.
Without context, it would be difficult for your clients to understand the flow of an app or website in the way you originally planned it. The best way to introduce context is by adding interactivity. By providing an interactive prototype (or interactive mockup), your clients can play around with it to their hearts’ content to get an idea of how the app will work and to test the interactions. The tool for creating interactive prototypes that wins hands down is Adobe Fireworks.
According to the first definition in dictionary.com, hierarchy is defined as any system of persons or things ranked one above another. Based on that definition, visual hierarchy would then simply be the visual system of ranked elements, one above another – or how the visual elements rank and relate to each other. Some elements on the page have more visual weight than others, these elements grab the attention of your eye and draw focus on them.
In this tutorial Stelian Subotin is going to design a nice, minimal calendar widget in Photoshop. He is going to use some really easy techniques to achieve a beautiful final result. By combining some gray, black, and variations of different light colors, and a nice subtle texture, he will try to give the interface a grungy, minimal look.
Patterns are everywhere around us. In art, patterns are an important medium of expression. Is a pattern worth more than a thousand words? Daniels Mekšs can leave that discussion for later, but it’s certain that patterns do liven up everything they’re applied to. Patterns can be used for nearly everything from website backgrounds to your phone case, for example. For this roundup he has prepared 40 fresh, colorful and jovial patterns from this year that will conjure up the mood of summer.
If you’re like Chris Brown, you’ll agree that the initial design phase of a project can be time consuming, fraught with frustration and rarely meets client expectations at the first approval meeting. What if there was a better way to approach things? With Style Tiles, the newest kid on the design-methodology block, there is. Some say that the days of creating full mockups for webdesign projects in Photoshop are dying, if not outright dead.
Creating a restaurant website can be very challenging for a developer because there is not a single product to sell or show and they have to promote the real feeling of the restaurant’s environment as well. Also, the responsiveness and flexibility of restaurant websites have become the most distinguishing factor in getting reservations, as customers tend to book only if the process hassle-free. Read on and discover the convenience WordPress plugins and PHP scripts can provide you in developing a professional-looking restaurant site.
In this tutorial Stelian Subotin is going to create a minimal login interface using Adobe Photoshop. With some simple techniques he will create a beautiful login interface. He will be using some variations of the color gray to help keep the interface as simple, elegant and minimal as possible.
In this tutorial Michael John Burns will show you how to create Tasty social Icons in Photoshop. He will be covering what’s new in the Shape Tools options panel which is the new Stroke. Using this new feature you can now easily make stitches and can adjust it whatever you want.If you don’t have Photoshop CS6, you can still accomplish this tutorial by following the simple instructions.