I have been running into more and more great twitter backgrounds. I chose these not only because of how they look, but how well they match their branding. In many cases, they dont just take exact design elements from their website, just suttle hints from it. Really a lot of thought put into these. Here are some great Twitter Designs:
One of the toughest things I struggle with is creating the most usable design for a very specific call to action. Whether it is for download, filling out a form, or buying something. A clean call-to-action is by far the most critical part of any website and for whatever reason, it is often overlooked.
I came across 5 really good sites today why I was on my hunt…I may add more to this post later.
Building your reputation online as a designer
Many of you use Twitter on a daily basis to communicate with friends and family and to keep up with the latest news. I’ve been using Twitter since the start of Designussion and it has been pivotal to its success and growth. I have a strong following on Twitter with nearly 4000 followers!
Typography is always a fascinating aspect of design and some designers are better at it than others. Each and every designer has had to develop and learn their own techniques to be able to produce some of the great typography art work they do. Luckily enough, the design community is active and many designers are nice enough to provide us with tutorials on how they create their typography.
In this post, Designussion showcases 18 outstanding typography tutorials to get you started.
The web, computers and mobile phones would be nothing without the humble icon. We use icons to navigate our way around computers and the internet and, on the whole, would be absolutely lost without them. You’ll be amazed by how many icons are firmly lodged in your brain: when presented with a Search, Mail or Battery icon, for instance, you’ll instantly know exactly what it means and what it does.
Icons are tiny, but powerful; underestimate them at your peril. Internet giants like Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live Messenger rely heavily on icon design to boost user numbers, and Microsoft and Apple are constantly refining and redesigning their icons in a fierce battle to stand out from one another and define their respective brand identities.
As an essential element of website navigation, you need to ensure that your icons are polished and attractive. Fortunately, there is a wealth of icon design tutorials available to help you create stunning icons in Photoshop or Illustrator. We’ve scoured the web to bring you the very best. Some are more suitable for experts, while others are accessible to anyone with the most limited graphic design experience. Take a look below and find the ones that are right for you.
With the vast majority of design blogs within the blogging community its hard to keep up with who is saying what. Using twitter along side your favorite RSS reader is a great way to find out about new articles that design blogs are writing up. As a designer, these are some of the design blogs we thing you should be following on twitter to keep up to date with designs latest trends and discussion.
Following the popular showcase of design related twitters you should follow in this post, Designussion take a look at design blogs that you should be following on twitter.
Keeping up with the your reading is an essential part of growing and learning as a designer. Using a web based browser allows you to keep your favorite blogs all one in central location even when moving from one device to another. In this post, Designussion showcases 12 awesome web based RSS readers which allow you to customize, organize, search and catagorize articles.
Taking your business card to the next level has become the latest craze on the web. Started by Tim Van Damme, Vcards are electronic business cards that allow a company or individual to display basic information online in a minimalistic manner. Most have decided on a simple, one page design that focuses its design around the Vcard content. From the designs showcased below we can see that they all seem to follow Tim’s original layout displaying some basic information, contact details and a list of their social network accounts.
There are those who often enjoy change and those who don’t. As a web designer using a computer is often a task that fills most of our day so sitting looking at the same screen can often become tedious and boring. Changing your desktop wallpaper often can not only bring a whole new look to your workspace but also spark inspiration and creativeness.
In this post, Designussion showcases 30 exotic wallpaper sites that are sure to land you with a new desktop wallpaper. Why not take it upon yourself to change your wall paper each month and spark some inspiration from within to help you with your web design projects and become a better and healthier designer.
As a designer it should be a priority to want to improve, grow and expand as technology and design trends change. One great way to achieve this is to read articles and view others work and with the use of the internet this is easily accessible. There are hundreds of design related blogs out on the net that are pushing out great content for designers to read but sometimes its hard to keep up with what everyone has to say.
In this post, Designussion takes a look at some of the best design related blogs on the Internet which we recommend you should follow. The following blogs are chosen from a personal preference and because of the interest they create. We hope you take the time to subscribe to each of these blogs which will help you grow as a designer.
