Archive for the ‘General Design’ Category
Monday, May 14th, 2007 |
Web 2.0 is the words we often hear these days. It’s reflecting both application and interface design trends on the web world.
There’s no official standard for interface design though, but you can see that the style goes to something smoother, glassy look, round corner and most importantly, simple.
This trend even reflected on the logotype. You can visit some of the websites that already adopted this style, such as: skype.com, clipshack.com, kajeet.com, newsgator.com and a lot more if you search by Google.
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006 |
2006 is about to pass. It is so close that you can see it in the blink of eye now. We have had a great year of growing web technology in 2006, and it has leave a good start to enter 2007. We’ll see what to come in web environment by the end of next year. But here are my predictions:
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 |
Creating good design is pretty brain-twisting, because it is not just about grab a canvas and draw. It is about idea, talent, skills, taste of beauty, and common sense. However, creating a bad design is very easy, but this guideline is meant to let designers know what to avoid.
1. Starting Out with a Blank Concept
This is the main thing to do if you’d like to have a bad layout. You don’t know what typeface or colour to be used, and above all you don’t know what the site will look like. make sure you do this if you’d like your design career to freefall.
2. Typeface from Another Planet
Try to use 3 years-old kid handwriting on a professional company artwork or serif fonts for kid oriented promotion artwork. Make it not clear enough to be read and show it to your clients, they’ll surely remember you forever.
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Monday, September 4th, 2006 |
In many people’s opinion, the definition of Design is doing a beautiful form or layout of an object. So, how is called beautiful anyway? A beautiful object for someone might not be beautiful for someone else. In simple note, ‘beautiful is depends upon each person’s eyes’. Anyway, this definition of design is not completely wrong, but I would like to correct it in a more perspective meaning.
Well, The definition of design is ‘The power to think, plan, and creating products/services to serve human beings in a better and efficient way’. This definition could be quite formal, In that way, I would like to simplify it to be ‘making things better’.
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