Archive for the ‘User Interface’ Category

Free Android GUI Vector PSD (High Pixel Density)

One of the challenges of an ever-changing digital channel, is that we find ourselves spending more and more time designing for various platforms and form factors. One such platform is Google Android. To help improve the design workflow teehanlax made a free GUI Vector PSD for Google Android 2.3.4. The template is based on the most [...]

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Sleeker, Simplified New Google Interface Buttons

Google rolled out a new design across many of their services as part of the Google+ launch. The new look presents a sleeker, simplified Google that puts the emphasis on your data and not on the interface. Part of the design’s success are the new Google buttons. Great UIs tend to have simple, obvious buttons [...]

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How to: 9 Tips to Engage Your Website Visitors

The biggest challenge for web marketers, brand managers and organizations targeting at more sales and brand loyalty via Web is engaging their website visitors. By engaging, we mean getting website visitors to spend time on the website and get involved in it. The ultimate purpose is, of course, conversion. What most marketers and brand promoters [...]

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User Interface Plugins for Rapid UI Development: jQuery EasyUI

Who would want to write every bit code to break it and then fix it when there are powerful, easy-to-use, and ready to use UI plugins for common website/web app components available today like jQuery EasyUI framework. It is a collection of user interface plugins based on jQuery to help you build web pages easily. EasyUI [...]

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30+ Photoshop Templates With Layered PSD Source Files

As web designer or developer, sometimes, you just want to get away with nitpicking with the design and concentrate on your code. Pre-designed and finished PSD templates come like a blessing in this situation. Today, we are sharing 30+ neatly finished Photoshop templates with layered PSD source files that you can use to instantly finish [...]

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Mobilizer: Preview Mobile Websites For Multiple Mobile Devices

Mobilizer is a free desktop application to preview your mobile websites, design mockups, and local HTML on Mac or PC. Simply use any URL or drag and drop local HTML, Flash, or image files to preview your mobile websites on iPhone 4, Palm Pre, HTC Evo, and Blackberry Storm. Designers can export PNGs of device [...]

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Create Better User Experience with Guider.js

Remember Merlin? Yeah, Merlin – the little wizard in Microsoft Office applications that popped up from nowhere on your screen to guide you how to proceed with the application. The little Merlin, Clippy and other characters were designed to provide instant help and tips to the users so they could breeze through their tasks and [...]

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Make Scalable Headlines and Flexible Font Sizes: FitText

Imagine, how your design layout would appear to users on a nifty handheld device and to the person viewing it on a hi-res wide screen. With so many browsing options (iPad, Tablets, Mobile Phones, Wide Screen Monitors etc.), you can limit your design to pre-defined scales. It has to be fluid and scalable – not just [...]

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How to Design Accessible Websites and Web Applications

Done with your latest and the greatest web design? Do you know that a large number of people in your audience would not be able to view your design as you intended. Imagine how a person with vision deficiency (like color blindness) would experience your website. According to an estimate, among adult computer users of [...]

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5 Web Design Trends to Watch & Follow in 2011

Recently, we have seen the entire landscape of web design transforming from traditional design and layouts to creative experiments in all directions. Most recent tends included rich imagery, table less layouts, interactive interfaces and extensive use of jQuery, CSS 3 and HTML 5 to minimize Photoshop and Flash. For the rest of 2011, we can expect a [...]

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