Stuff 4 Designers

2011 has been a whirlwind of exciting new techniques, tools and technology so far. Here are just a few items which have caught our eye over the last few weeks.

Dashkards.com If you prefer to keep your hands on your keyboard at all times and rely on keyboard shortcuts to keep your productivity in top form, you’ll be interested in Dashkards. This collection of mini-cheatsheets can be added to the dashboard on your Mac for you to call up on demand. They have a good [...]

If you were missing from the web scene this week, here’s a round-up of links you won’t want to have missed! Changes to the Apple.com Design As we reported last week, Apple did a subtle refresh of their site with fancy animating navigation, some webkit effects and new search auto-suggest feature. Of course, for web [...]

Little Big Details A good part of design is about small details, especially when we’re talking about user interface elements. They can make or break a design, or be the difference between a good design and a great design. Little Big Details devoted to showcasing the small UI details that designers take great care over. [...]

Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing us back to 1999? on SixRevisions Thought provoking post about how some of the social media and “only view in Safari or Chrome” trends of 2011 are eerily similar to what was going on in 1999 with website hit counters and “Best viewed in Netscape”. Worth a read and [...]

We recently stumbled across Zardi, a CSS3 button pack, that can be used on your website. The download pack currently contains 7 different colours and 3 different button styles. While the style of the buttons might not be to everyone’s taste the best thing about this pack is that these button styles have been fully [...]

Here’s a few interesting links doing the rounds this week (January 10th-14th 2011) The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers This is a nice piece suggesting standards & conventions for web designers working with PSDs. The suggestions include how to name and organise your file and layers, and how to work with type, images and [...]