Posts Tagged ‘design’

Stepcase Lifehack - Rebranding with New Design

I founded Lifehack.org in May, 2005, as a place to share the little tips and tricks, or “hacks” — that I and others had discovered to make their work flow a little more smoothly, a little more quickly, and little higher quality.

By 2007, Lifehack.org had grown far beyond my original vision with just sharing what I learned. I began expanding the scope of the site by adding new contributors. Lifehack.org… » Continue

April 28 2008 | By Leon | Tagged: , , , , | 24 comments»

Design Better with CRAP

The power and ease-of-use of today’s computer applications has raised the bar drastically on the quality of design expected in the documents we produce. As recently as ten years ago, it was typical to produce business letters, memos, and other documents using a courier-like, monospaced typeface, often with only underlining available for emphasis of key passages or section headings. The only options for correcting typos and other mistakes… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , , , , | 57 comments»

Web Design Tool: Denim Site Sketching

When you are making websites, inevitably some form of sketching will be done to rough out it’s design and interactivity.

Whether you’re the web designer or someone trying to communicate your ideas to a web designer, this little piece of software, called Denim, will come in handy.

What Denim does is allow you to create a mock website, with linking pages, just from your rough sketches. Obviously, this will work particularly… » Continue

May 10 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: , , | 7 comments»

Home decor design tips

Normal Room is a Web site that lets users submit images of various rooms in their homes. Normal Room has amassed a large collection of designs from countries around the world. I think this is really unique and great resource if you are thinking of redecorating, building a home, setting up your office or studio, or just looking for ideas on how to make your workspace more… » Continue

January 18 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: , , , | 10 comments»

Makeover your LinkedIn profile

Previously we posted about 12 ways to use LinkedIn. Guy Kawasaki has again offered up his LinkedIn expertise. This time Guy gives a tutorial on how to drastically improve your LinkedIn profile. Leveraging the Director of Corporate Communications and the Senior UI Designer at LinkedIn, Guy’s tutorial has some tremendous expertise to backup… » Continue

January 16 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: , , , , | 1 comment»

The 7 deadly sins of resumé design

We’ve covered articles about how to improve your resume’s content. How about the design aspect of it? It is equally important to give a professional feeling. Another problem is that the design gets too fancy. LifeClever describes 7 deadly sins of resume design:

  • Fancy “resumé” paper
  • Times New Roman
  • Teeny tiny font size
  • Grey text
  • Excessive decoration
  • Weird paper size
  • Horizontal format

What do I care about resume design? - Don’t do fancy stuff; Font size… » Continue

September 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: , | 4 comments»

I’m New Here

Before Apple, personal computers seemed like a stupid idea. eBay was founded by some people looking for a web-facing way to trade and sell parts of their PEZ collection. Getting Things Done is nothing more than practical wisdom, years old in content, reskinned to meet the needs of people’s current conditions. So, how did they come into existence and change our world?

Someone said, “I’m new here.”

New is the… » Continue

May 29 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: , , , , , | no comments»

Web Design Workflow

Anand Sharma shows us a process for designing websites. It’s a very detailed article, and it’s Part 1. If you have interest in designing web pages, this looks like a great place to really think it through.

The first half (or often more than half) is the design. It all starts with an idea. You have to have some inspiration, or some goal in mind. It helps to know what content… » Continue

May 21 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: , , , , | 1 comment»

Online Design Magazines

Luke over at Functioning Form points us to a list of online design magazines. They would be useful to people interested in web design, usability, information architecture, art, and making things. Some of the titles Luke points us to are:

  • Digital Web Magazine
  • UX Matters
  • A List Apart
  • Treehouse
  • PingMag

The beauty of reading about design is that you often find things you can apply to your work or projects, even if you don’t consider… » Continue

May 17 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: , , , | 3 comments»

Software tools for Designers

xBlog points us to a huge mountain of useful tools for web designers and graphic arts types. It’s exciting to see the list, because it sparks ideas of how you can use these tools for your own projects. Check this big list of tools out for yourself.

Protolize Web Tools - [via xBlog]… » Continue

May 6 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: , , | 1 comment»

Post-it Decor

From Apartment Therapy, here’s a cool idea on decorating with post-its. The texture is actually pretty cool, you must admit. And apparently they say they haven’t fallen off yet. Still, I think I’d get myself in trouble using these for to-dos.

Nick Senzee is membership director of a professional design society in the DC metro area. He likes to read and write and puts his thoughts down in his

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May 4 2006 | By Nick | Tagged: , | no comments»

Six is the Magic Number

Jessie James Garrett gives us Six Design Lessons From the Apple Store, where he talks about the difference between experiences and artifacts, context, messaging, consistency, change, and the human element. Every single bit of this piece is a storm of microcontent for you to consider.

There’s a lot about the Apple Store experience that we can apply to the design of many other kinds of products — and a few… » Continue

May 2 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: , , , , | no comments»

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