With this sequence of articles we are going to present a long list of websites characterized by their minimalist web design style. According to Wikipedia’s definition, we can say that the main feature of this style is to reduce the subject to its very basics, removing any element that could somehow distract attention from the message that you want to convey.
Posted by Roberto on 21 May, 2008
On Vandelay’s website a collection of 65 resources about grid based design: handful tools to improve efficiency and effectiveness of your project, as well as some articles for advanced techniques.
Posted by Roberto on 1 Apr, 2008
On Smashing Magazine an article which presents most significant recent trends, examples and innovative solutions for design of modern navigation menus. Interesting to see the difference between now and last year approaches of navigation design.
Posted by Roberto on 28 Feb, 2008
Carsten Cumbrowsky’s article on Search Engine Journal provide us a long and pretty list of questions that a website owner should ask himself about his website. I think it could hardly be considered a final list… so, as the author himself suggested, feel free to discuss about it!
Posted by Andrea on 25 Feb, 2008
Being a complete web designer means to develop different skills, from technical and artistic aspects of web design to communication and promotion ones. On Vandelay’s website, an article rich of resources links divided by category.
Posted by Roberto on 20 Feb, 2008
The use of Internet in politics is growing more and more and with this the importance of a strategic good-looking design. An example is given by the present campaign for the American Presidential Election.
Posted by Roberto on 6 Feb, 2008
A list of the most popular articles, resources, and tutorials of 2007. Basics and principles of design, color theory, graphics and icons resources, css, layout and more to learn the ropes of design.
Posted by Roberto on 6 Jan, 2008
Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet that could be really useful for analysing and creating grid-based websites.
Posted by Roberto on 23 Dec, 2007
A great collection of tools to improve Css design technique: from colors and backgrounds, fonts and shapes, sizes or positions to faster and progressive loading of pages and much more.
Posted by Roberto on 3 Oct, 2007
People are changing the way they consume online information and consequently their expectations about websites. Design aim is to give solutions in response of user’s needs, in other words, more intuitive and usable websites.
Posted by Roberto on 26 Sep, 2007
Christian Watson, author of a design blog named Smiley Cat, posted a showcase of 50 registration/sign-up forms which combine form design with visual appeal. The aim is to show that aesthetics and functionality/usability can coexist.
Posted by Roberto on 13 Sep, 2007
Del.icio.us, the most popular social bookmarking portal, will soon change its look. A limited preview lets only-invited users leave theirs feedbacks about the version 2.0 of the service.
Posted by Roberto on 8 Sep, 2007