Urbanized

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 3:05 pm

Urbanized: Gary Hustwit’s third and final film in the design trilogy that includes Helvetica and Objectified, Urbanized will explore the design of cities: Who is allowed to shape our cities, and how. […]

“Mad Men” Furniture: Don Draper’s Office

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 1:34 pm

“Mad Men” Furniture: Don Draper’s Office: A very detailed review of the show’s mid-century style from none other than The Mid-Century Modernist. I’ve not seen a single episode of “Mad Men�. […]

Laurent Nivalle Photography: Le Mans Classic 2010

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 6:43 am

Laurent Nivalle Photography: Le Mans Classic 2010: These fabulous photos look like they were taken 40 years ago. (They were taken just 3 weeks ago.)

MML Bundle & Multi-song NSF

Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 6:54 am

I’ve updated my Textmate MML bundle to include creation of multi-song NSFs (which I’m using for the background music in Mimeo and the Kleptopus King). The updated bundle includes two new C. […]

8-bit iPhone Game Development

Thursday, 11 March 2010, 7:56 am

A lot of people have been asking how I got to where I currently am with Mimeo and the Kleptopus King. Despite starting out with a very clear goal in mind (a pixelated, console-inspired game on the iPh. […]

Mimeo and the Kleptopus King

Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 5:35 am

As anyone on Dribbble already knows, I have been hard at work on my next iPhone/iPod touch game for the past two months. With the public launch of Dribbble imminent (I haven’t heard anything mor. […]

Anorexic vs. obese layouts: you can’t please everyone, but you should try

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 9:19 pm

This comes as a surprise. Aux of Cogent Metal is vehemently against webpages that have narrow layout widths. And I thought web designers are now more worried about the opposite: the wide layouts that. […]

Prettier Posts: Clean Up Those Listings

Thursday, 22 July 2010, 8:50 am

It’s about time we clean up the blogosphere, it doesn’t have to be this ugly, and not everyone needs to hire me or my likes to get a pretty blog. There’s a lot you can do yourself, a. […]

Authority Profile: Rand Fishkin

Wednesday, 14 July 2010, 4:49 pm

For my first post here, I wanted to introduce a new idea, an authority profile. I want to create a small database of people that help answer the question, “who should I be following online?̶. […]

Free Ticket to FITC San Francisco

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 3:55 am

I have a free FITC San Francisco to give away. To get it: you just need to enter a comment in this post before August 6, 2010 and the winner will be selected randomly. The event will take place in San. […]

Interview With ZURB

Friday, 9 July 2010, 8:50 am

For those of you who been reading my blog should be familiar with ZURB. They are the guys who created those fantastic web apps — Bounce, Notable, and Verify. If you read online tutorials a lot,. […]

What Do You Think About Flash Now? Comment and Win

Thursday, 1 July 2010, 4:36 pm

Some people hate it, some people love it, but undoubtedly it is preferred in a wide variety of situations, from banners and online videos to rich internet applications. I’m talking about Flash o. […]

Coca Cola – A bottle can be iconic

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 12:14 am

Coca Cola has been an example for good branding practices throughout the years because of it’s consistency over the years especially if you compare it to Pepsi. Coke’s bottle silhouette mi. […]

Front End Design Conference – The All Female Line-up

Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 9:27 am

Quick! Look at your calendar, now back at me, now back at your calendar, now back at me! What are you doing on July 23rd? You should be at the Front End Design Conference in St. Petersburg Florida. Fr. […]

A new Q & A Graphic Design site proposed from Stack Exchange

Monday, 19 July 2010, 10:04 pm

Ever feel like the online world is not full with enough good instructional design content? Over at Area 51, stack exchange’s awesome new staging zone there is a new site in the making. Can Berk. […]

Overcoming the Obstacles of Usability Testing

Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 6:30 am

Usability testing, though incredibly useful, is not without its own hitches. Author and self-described "usability geek" Jacob Creech walks through the most common issues and how to avoid them.

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Content Strategy

Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 6:30 am

Ready to get real about your website's content? In this article, we'll take a look at Content Strategy; that odd amalgamation of web savvy, Information Architecture and editorial process that adds up. […]

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Web Analytics and Measurement

Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 6:30 am

Analysis has traditionally been a numbers game. Only recently, however, has this industry turned its focus towards more qualitative methods—the domain of user testing! In this article, we explor. […]

Create a Fantasy Painting With Photoshop CS5′s Mixer Brush – Psdtuts Premium Tutorial

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 7:00 am

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your digital painting skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Lear. […]

Add Depth of Field to a 3D Scene with Lens Blur

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 5:35 am

In today’s quick tip tutorial, we will demonstrate how to add depth of field to a scene that we will be creating with 3D objects to help improve a presentation to a client. Step 1 First, create. […]

Behind the Scenes of Psdtuts with Collis!

Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 11:51 pm

Here at Envato we’re pretty famous for building a lot of successful blogs, like this one! We’ve done quite a few now, so last year I decided other people might find our techniques and syst. […]

In Defense Of Photoshop

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 1:16 am

Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 5:45 am

  For too many projects, there comes a time when every action taken, every decision and sacrifice made, is spurred on by pressure to finish. Tempers seem to shrink along with the available. […]

New eBook From Smashing Magazine: Mastering Photoshop For Web Design

Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 5:23 am

  Mastering Photoshop for Web Design is the third book in our eBook series, and it's definitely the best eBook we've published so far. It was written from scratch by our regular writer Thom. […]

A CSS3 Tip

Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 3:38 pm

I'm probably way behind the curve on this one, but I recently realized the following: All browsers that support the CSS text-shadow and box-shadow properties also support the new CSS3 RGBa syntax. Whi. […]

IE8 Still Failing PNG Alpha

Thursday, 20 May 2010, 2:48 pm

You thought our long nightmare of PNG alpha transparency support was finally over as of IE7, didn't you? Yeah, me too. Over the past few months I've been collaborating with Chris Glass on the newly-la. […]

Smaller PNGs

Thursday, 15 April 2010, 10:23 pm

Last week I put together an animated infographic that required some flexibility. Alpha transparency was essential, but the number of images I needed to pull it off meant that my typical way of creatin. […]

Realistic Illustrations and Renders

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 8:00 pm

We often get to see awesome illustrations and 3D renders from many great artists. I find particularly cool realistic works, that if you see from a certain distance, you can't tell it's not real. <. […]

Daily Inspiration #574

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 2:26 pm

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspir. […]

Close Look at Visual Identities

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 6:42 am

Visual Identity is the visible elements of a brand, it expresses the values and ambitions of an organization, its business, and its characteristics. Here you take a close look at some really cool vis. […]

Pre-Order WordPress Bundle for $80 and Win a 16GB iPad

Monday, 31 May 2010, 5:21 am

Grab the full WordPress Themes Bundle for only $80, plus your chance to win an iPad with WPBundle. The special offer is only available until July 4th 2010 and could even win you a brand new 16GB Wi-Fi. […]

WordPress Theme Options Overload? A Judgment Call

Sunday, 30 May 2010, 9:54 am

Lately, while I’ve been busy coding themes for WPBundle, I’ve had to make a few judgment calls. One of the main ones for me is how I wanted to handle the “Theme Options” people. […]

WPBundle: A WordPress Themes Bundle by Function

Monday, 24 May 2010, 7:49 am

For many people, this is the first you’ve heard of this. We’ve not really spoke about WPBundle before, we’ve just had our heads down working hard on it for a few months now. WPBundle. […]

Forum is back up!

Friday, 7 May 2010, 8:03 am

Sorry for the downtime on the forums. They’re back up now.

Sushi & Robots

Friday, 7 May 2010, 7:48 am

Beautifully personal portfolio by Jina Bolton that reveals the site grid and baseline grid.

Bisgrafic

Friday, 7 May 2010, 7:45 am

Lovely grid site design by Barcelona based Bisgrafic.

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Invisible Status Bar Safari Extension

Friday, 11 June 2010, 6:47 am

Save display space or appeal to your own sense of minimalism by hiding Safari’s native status bar, and using the Invisible Status Bar instead. Only shows up when you hover over a link, i.e. whe. […]

Lobster Font

Thursday, 13 May 2010, 11:53 am

The new Open Type fonts give us the possibility to have multiple versions of each letter, and that’s exactly what we are going to do: Instead of compromising the design of our letters to force. […]

Some current postings at Authentic Jobs

Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 3:38 am

Just a few jobs that caught my eye this week… Web Developer Experienced in Expression Engine & PHP Programming User Experience Design + Ruby on Rails Development for The One Million Neighbor. […]

CSS Run-in Display Value

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 5:52 am

CSS has a value for the display attribute called run-in. It’s like this: h3 { display: run-in; } The point is to allow a header to run into text below it, without sacrificing semantics or runnin. […]

Interviewed on Unmatched Style Podcast

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 5:52 am

The crew from Unmatched Style are the folks that run ConvergeSE which I was lucky enough to attend this year. They are really great folks! While I was down there, I was interviewed by Gene for their p. […]

Dude, you browse with JavaScript on?

Monday, 26 July 2010, 6:24 am

Dude, you browse with JavaScript on? Uhm, yeah, why wouldn’t I? It’s totally insecure. Hackers could destroy your computer. Hackers? What is this 1995? And, no they can’t. They can d. […]

Designing from one end to the other

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 9:07 am

A little over a year ago, we published my first book with Five Simple Steps. A small ripple in the publishing industry, but a large splash for us. From that single tentative toe in the water, we’ve. […]

Old School Microphone Design

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 8:14 am

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to design an old school microphone. Step 1: Let’s start out by creating a new file. I used a 500×500 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my backg. […]

Free Professional Developer Icon Sets

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 12:59 am

Nothing gets a web designer more excited than a good high quality and (especially) FREE icon set. And that is exactly what we have for you in today’s design news round-up. You will find five fre. […]

How Thinking and Developing Modular Can Increase Productivity

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 1:26 am

When we have one few too many clients, we panic and begin to cut corners to squeeze in as many clients as we can into our schedule, and we end up working nights and weekends with buggy results. What i. […]

LessConf – Day 2 – Clay Hebert founder of TribesWin

Saturday, 22 May 2010, 12:26 pm

Clay Hebert – Founder of TribesWin Don’t go to business school. Plain and simple. Don’t be brained wash into thinking you have to get a “real job.” There is no road map f. […]

LessConf – Day 2 – Peldi Guilizzoni founder of Balsamiq

Saturday, 22 May 2010, 10:45 am

Peldi Guilizzoni – founder of Balsamiq Balsamic turned a profit of $12,539 after the first month and has broke $2 MIL this year. Do the time. Learn your industry from the ground up from people m. […]

LessConf Sucks

Saturday, 22 May 2010, 9:50 am

LessConf Sucks from Allan Branch on Vimeo.

Exploring Failures

Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 1:39 pm

Out of the settling dust of the SXSW 2010 conference, this short video emerged on analyzing failures, with a skew to the web development industry. Some interesting opinions are shared. If I could toss. […]

The Web-Print Melting Pot

Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 7:55 am

The video above is about a real-world effort by Wired magazine, to bring the media consumption of their publication into a web-print melting pot. It’s a very good view for web designers, develo. […]

Hartley Botanic | .Net Makeover Feature

Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 7:23 am

.Net Magazine was in touch recently, about contributing some design and editorial to a website makeover feature for publishing. I jumped on the opportunity, and the makeover appears in the December 20. […]

JavaScript Minification Part II

Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 3:00 am

Variable naming can be a source of coding angst for humans trying to understand code. Once you’re sure that a human doesn’t need to interpret your JavaScript code, variables simply become generic. […]

SVG with a little help from Raphaël

Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 3:00 am

Want to make fancy, interactive, scalable vector graphics (SVGs) that look beautiful at any resolution and degrade with grace? Brian Suda urges you to consider Raphaël for your SVG heavy lifting.

Prefix or Posthack

Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 2:00 am

Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius and -webkit-animation may challenge our con. […]

A Real Web Design Application

Monday, 26 July 2010, 12:41 pm

The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore—we all live here. And those of us who work here sho. […]

FullCodePress 2010

Thursday, 24 June 2010, 2:58 pm

I’m fresh back from New Zealand where I took part in FullCodePress, a knock down, drag out, web design competition to make a website for a charity in 24 hours. The competition was put on by the. […]

Announcing A Book Apart

Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 8:00 am

I’m very pleased to present A Book Apart, a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, Mandy Brown, and myself. Our first book is HTML5 For Web Desig. […]

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Yahoo Developer Network update with Jonathan LeBlanc #3

Monday, 26 April 2010, 7:01 am

Talking with Jonathan LeBlanc from YDN about API changes, YQL and their iPhone and iPad apps.

Designer Chat Session with Forty Agency

Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 8:33 am

Talking about their recent redesign of fortyagency.com and how they approach and engage clients with their agency's work. With Sunny Thaper and Amy Lamp.

The Care and Feeding of a Developer - Jason Johnson

Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 6:45 am

Jason Johnson gives us a great presentation on the "care and feeding of a developer". If you are a developer or work with them this is some great insight.

How to Use CakePHP’s Access Control Lists

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 10:13 pm

If you’re building a CMS, you’ll probably need different user roles—superusers, admins, users—with different permission levels. Too complicated to code? Enter CakePHP’s A. […]

Incredible Services and Products

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 4:08 pm

Okay, okay; this may be a thank you posting for the wonderful sponsors of our massive HTML5 competition, however, it’s important for me to note that I refused to accept sponsors of any product t. […]

CSS: Noob to Ninja – The Complete Video Series

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 9:58 am

This exclusive premium video series will take you from a state of absolute CSS “noobness,” all the way up to ninja-status, capable of taking advantage of the latest CSS3 techniques. The series beg. […]

Sass: A Designer’s Perspective

Monday, 19 July 2010, 7:21 am

Let me start by saying that I am not a developer. Sure, I can write some pretty solid HTML and CSS, but beyond that I defer to our great team of developers. So when I first heard about Sass, the right. […]

Design Share 3 Recap

Friday, 16 July 2010, 1:42 pm

With another Design Share event in the can we thought we'd share a taste of the evening's amazing talks for those who couldn't make it. Our format mostly stayed the same featuring 4 short-format talk. […]

Taking Traditional Design Concepts & Print Design Aesthetics to the Web: Advantages & Disadvantages

Thursday, 15 July 2010, 7:52 am

When I came into web design fresh off the print world, I wanted to make innovative and crazy looking websites that broke a lot of rules to create unique experiences for users. However, I forgot all ab. […]

A is for Apple

Friday, 16 July 2010, 5:18 am

Thought we’d start this off with an easy one! Last year a friend recommended I move from Windows PC’s to Apple, I was a skeptic! Then I did it, and the Apple bug hit me! I bought a Macbook. […]

The Art of Bokeh

Thursday, 8 July 2010, 6:46 am

When I first started playing around with Photography I thought Bokeh was a term only applied to photos with blurred lights in the background. Turns out Bokeh is quite simply Blur… it doesn’. […]

Creative License #67- The Final Comic.

Thursday, 31 December 2009, 7:00 am

Kettle: Junior to Mid-Level Client Side Developer

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 7:27 pm

(New York City (SoHo), NY) Kettle is a rapidly growing interactive agency based in New York City. We are looking for an eager junior to mid-level client-side developer to help us out on a contract bas. […]

MagMe Inc.: Flex ActionScript Developer

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 7:09 pm

(San Francisco, CA) About us: MagMe Inc. is a digital publishing platform and is currently seeking an experienced Flex ActionScript Developer for contract work. Internet Start-Up experience is a plus.. […]

Jacobson Rost: Senior Front End Developer/Web Designer

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 1:32 pm

(Chicago, IL) Senior Front End Developer/Web Designer Creative communications agency seeking experienced programmer/front end developer to work across a broad range of clients and platforms. Potential. […]

Jacobson Rost: Digital Strategist

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 1:32 pm

(Chicago, IL) Creative communications agency seeking experienced digital Strategist to work across broad range of interesting clients. Potential projects include but are not limited to designing web e. […]

Men's Health: Freelance HTML5 Web Developer for iPhone/iPad

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 12:53 pm

(Anywhere) Men's Health magazine is seeking an expert in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to work with the magazine on iPhone/iPad applications. Previous experience in iPhone/iPad development a plus. Primar. […]

LexBlog, Inc: Front-End Web Designer

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 12:48 pm

(Seattle, WA) About LexBlog: LexBlog is powered by the desire and commitment to create long-lasting fans and 100% client satisfaction. We offer talented and motivated people the opportunity to do grea. […]

(mt) Media Temple is looking for a Sr. Designer in Culver City, CA, USA

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 8:19 pm

(mt) Media Temple, Inc. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, the company has provided businesses around the world with reliable, p. […]

Neucase is looking for a Sales people in Anywhere

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 3:58 pm

Neucase is looking for extremely good sales people / project managers to join our team. Who is Neucase We are a digital agency specializing in visual effects and animation for interactive projects. We. […]

Creative Circle is looking for a Sr. Direct Response Art Director- Interactive and Print in Chicago, IL, USA

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 3:11 pm

Position: Sr. Direct Response Art Director- Interactive and Print Location: City of Chicago Status: Freelance to Fulltime Estimated Duration: Fulltime Starts: ASAP, upon identifying the right candidat. […]

Creative Circle is looking for a Sr. Usability Tester (Consumer Focus) in Chicago, IL, USA

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 2:33 pm

A great ongoing freelance opportunity with a corporation in downtown Chicago. Our client is looking for a Sr. Usability Tester with consumer focus and wireframing skills to work with their team. You M. […]

Poggled is looking for a Front End Developer/Web Designer in Chicago, IL , USA

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 2:22 pm

Who we are: Poggled is a social utility focused around providing people with similar tastes a great value and a great time at a local bar. Consumers benefit by leveraging our negotiated deals to find. […]

Speeddate is looking for a Web Production Designer in Millbrae, CA, USA

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 1:09 pm

About SpeedDate.com SpeedDate.com is the world's first online speed dating website, and with over 10 Million Singles having joined to date, it's considered by many to be the next big opportunity in th. […]

(mt) Media Temple : Sr. Designer

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 8:24 pm

Location: Culver City, CA URL: http://mediatemple.net (mt) Media Temple, Inc. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, the company ha. […]

Where I've Been: Creative Director/Web Designer - for Leading Social Travel Site!!!

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 2:28 pm

Location: Chicago, IL URL: www.whereivebeen.com Where I've Been (www.whereivebeen.com), a leading social travel site and Facebook application with 9.6 million members, is currently looking for a rock. […]

Yodle: Web Development and Design Manager

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 2:23 pm

Location: New York, NY URL: www.yodle.com/careers OverviewDo you want to have a direct effect on the future success of a fast growing company? One that is experiencing 135% year over year growth in t. […]

Nimble: User Interface & User Experience Designer (UI/UX)

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 12:54 pm

Location: Santa Monica, CA URL: http://www.nimble.com About the CompanyNimble develops the only CRM solution to combine the best of high-end CRM, social media and collaborative tools into one simple. […]

David Archelak: VoxeoCMS is looking for web developers to do client development work for cms systems.

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 9:08 am

Location: Anywhere URL: www.voxeocms.com Voxeocms.com is looking for a group of developers, holding skills in php, html, css, xhtml, jquery, javascript, and other languages.  Certifications may. […]

iFixit: User Interface Designer / Design Ninja

Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 6:19 pm

Location: San Luis Obispo, CA URL: http://www.ifixit.com iFixit needs an exceptionally talented user interface designer who has successfully shipped web applications, wants to help us fix the wo. […]

Front End Web Developer - Mercury New Media - (Tampa, FL) - FullTime

Thursday, 29 July 2010, 7:19 pm

We are seeking an experienced front end/UI web developer with a mix of technical savvy and an eye for design. The successful candidate is responsible for blending the vision of our creative design te.. […]

SeqCentral needs web/graphics designer - SeqCentral - (the cloud) - Freelance

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 2:13 pm

SeqCentral is urgently seeking a web designer to create our most important web pages. SeqCentral (http://www.seqcentral.com) is a startup providing biologists a gateway to cloud co...

Front-End Web Developer/Multimedia Support Specialist - California Teachers Association - (Burlingame, CA) - FullTime

Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 10:19 am

Front-End Web Developer/Multimedia Support Specialist The California Teachers Association is seeking a talented and versatile assistant front-end web developer to join our team. We are l...

Design Director - Hornall Anderson - (Seattle, WA) - FullTime

Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 4:55 pm

Hornall Anderson is seeking a Design Director with a stellar background in branding design and a focus working with enterprise level clients. We are actively building a culture around the way we do ou. […]