Example of How Powerful Photoshop Can Be
Sometimes it is simply scary how good some people are at using Photoshop. This video gives you an idea of what you can do.
p.s. the music is terrible!
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Steve Jobs’ Last Project Was The iPhone 5
It seems as though Steve Jobs’ last project was the iPhone 5. An inside source has been disclosing the details and it all seems understandable.
The iPhone 4S was not a major rework of the iPhone, it was just a tech spec upgrade. Jobs was working on the iPhone 5 which we will probably see at Apple’s next Developer conference.
via – Cnet
Outside Car Airbags: Easpace
I could really use this on my car! If you have Airbags inside the car why not also have them on the outside of the car! This slightly ridiculous-looking concept is called Easpace.
The external airbags may be a silly idea, but we do like the other part of the design: an LED warning system that lets other drivers know when they’re getting too close.
Leaked: Amazon Redesign
It has been leaked that Amazon has been testing a complete redesign of their site. Here is what it is going to look like.
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The new design is currently in place on Amazon.com, but is still yet to launch in other countries. It will be interesting to see if users like the sleaker and more basic design.
What do you think?
Breaking: Google Release New Search Design Worldwide
Yesterday Google announced the launch of Google+ their social networking project. A lot of people were talking about the slick design of Google+ and that it was developed by an ex-Apple employee. Now, Google has decided to release this design principle across their search engine worldwide!
As you can see from the image everything has been simplified and pastel-ised from a colour point of view. I’m a big fan of the design as it makes everything a lot more appealing to the eye and draws away from the ugly blue links for every entry.
What do you think?
Fences Organzies Your Desktop
Fences found here is a simple program that you download and install and then your desktop looks brand new. Fences allows you to make boxes on your desktop to organize you files and folders. You can label each box and make it as big or as small as you would like. It also has a couple prebuilt boxes so if you don’t wanna make a design it will do it for you. Another cool features is that if anything ever happens to your desktop you could restore it if you saved it prior. It does any auto save before fences is installed. One way it helps you is if you double click on your desktop it will hide all the icons and boxes. You can choose which boxes/files you do and don’t wanna hide. The last neat feature is that you can change the color of the boxes and even the transparency. All in all if you desktop is messy your gonna want this. There is a free version and a paid but I am fine with the free version since the paid doesn’t offer much else.
9 Awesome Examples of Forced Perspective Photography
Here is some great design inspiration for any of our web design readers out there.
Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.
Design your Facebook Page for Free
Pagemodo’s Page Builder is a free service to design Facebook pages in a very professional way. The interesting thing about it is that we don’t need any knowledge about programming or design.
Social Media business changed significantly with the growth of Facebook, forcing companies to use this social network to extend their business. And if we want to get Facebook’s users attention we will need something more than just a simple page of our company and/or startup.
Pagemodo provides a simple way to accomplish this by giving us all the necessary tools, with an easy method to embed images and instant publication. The site also includes paid versions (starting from $9 per month) with the possibilities to embed video, live support and with the feature of Google Analytics to be included soon.
How to Know if your Site is Correctly Design
How do we design our website is the key factor to achieve popularity, there’s no point on having a lot of great content if we are designing a complex site which it is extremely expensive to maintain it. W3tableless is a simple web app which will show us if the website design follows some of the best practices.
Even though there’s no golden rule about how to correctly design your website, there are several best practices that should not be avoid. One of them is “tableless”: A design technique for dividing the architecture of our site separating content and design. Therefore the maintenance costs of the website are reduced.
W3tableless will show you with just one click and completely free if your website is using this best practices. Just enter the URL and click on “CHECK”.
We will receive also a complete report about the website: Number of DIV tags, TABLE tags, Encoding, XML Prolog, etc.
Design Android Apps with DroidDraw
DroidDraw it’s a free web app where we can design and build graphical user interfaces for an Android phone. DroidDraw also includes a standalone executable available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
The Google OS for mobile devices is the most used operating system in smart phones… yes, even more than iPhone OS. And the market share estimated for the next few years says that this tendency won’t change; so if you were thinking about mobile apps design you better start with Android.
DroidDraw also offers free tutorials to understand this free tool and some nice guidelines and tips.
