Some might argue that passive whitespace is the unconsidered space present within a composition. I disagree: if you don’t consider all your whitespace, that’s just bad design. Passive whitespace creates breathing room and balance. It’s important.
[On the concept of design in general, regardless of what medium it's in] Design really flourishes under constraints. The more known quantities that we have to deal with, the more creative solutions we can often apply. After all, design is all about creating order out of chaos.
Wonderfully rich nav/image/description UI widget on http://nclud.com/ @nclud #InterfaceDesign
10yrs of age, Lego necklace, logo like a swastika, and Motion Family promo – sorted.
Neat image navigation interaction feature on http://www.pictorymag.com/ @Pictory #InterfaceDesign
In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity. In other words costs or difficulties to the user should be given more weight than costs to authors; which in turn should be given more weight than costs to implementors; which should be given more weight than costs to authors of the spec itself, which should be given more weight than those proposing changes for theoretical reasons alone. Of course, it is preferred to make things better for multiple constituencies at once.
(Translated: “It’s all about the user baby!”)
*Some artwork I'm working on*
Disclaimer
If you – like me – are having problems reproducing identical colours between Photoshop and your web browser this post provides a solution.
This post does not concern itself with best practices for printing techniques and managing CMYK colour palettes. I’m primarily a web designer, so settings for print don’t concern me. That said, if you are a print designer you’d still benefit from reading this article, especially if you haven’t come across the term sRGB before.
Whilst looking for a practical application for the (new) CSS3 border-image property this evening I stumbled upon this typography wonder:
Nicolas Gallagher CSS Typography Experiment
Now at first glance it’s nothing special, but once you discover this is pure HTML/CSS comboliciousness were dealing with here… well, I got my Firebug on to inspect a little closer and sure enough it’s all image-free. The depression set in once I discovered this was accomplished/published nearly a year ago, back in February of this year (2010).
NB the advanced use of CSS for the heart shape and great use of masking using the :before/:after pseudo-element.
http://sixrevisions.com/css/the-history-of-css-resets/
Sound foundation ensures sane development.
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