Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms

If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is not enough to simply enable users to sign up on your site.

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10 (More) Pieces of Incredible Transforming Furniture [PICS]

Why is transforming furniture so alluring? Does it appeal to our sense that innovation is progress, the fact that fewer materials for more uses is sustainable or simply a return to the childhood love of things that we can actively change and shape as we wish? Whatever the reason, these designs range from humorous and impractical to jaw-dropping...

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60+ Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design. However, it’s important to know what to do in order to powerfully use its tools and achieve certain effects.

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12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript

Adobe Flash is an excellent technology that allows developers to add interactivity and smooth animations to web pages. Its popularity is so immense that you’ll find many websites dedicated to helping developers interested in Flash. In this article, you’ll find 12 wonderful websites that’s worth a bookmark if you’re looking into sharpening your ...

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3 Robots That Move Just Like Animals

A number of developers are capturing the movement and grace of entire animals, giving us robots that crawl, walk, and swim just like their biological counterparts. If this research one day spawns an uncomplaining robotic mule to carry our physical burdens or dogs that can save children from fiery buildings without fear of harm.

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The Internet in 1934

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes”) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks

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42 (More!) Unusually Brilliant Business Card Designs [PICS]

In today ’s world of short attention spans it is more important than ever to make a compelling first impression. A brilliant business card that speaks to your profession, serves some unusual function or that transforms into something else can be a great way to grab attention and inspire those you meet. Organized into 5 helpful groups:

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Reverse Graffiti: Clean Street Art Hits San Francisco!

The Reverse Graffiti Project imbues the guerrilla tactics of street-art with an eco-friendly element, detourning the definition of graffiti by actually cutting through and cleaning up grit to leave a lasting impression. The artist scraped through the grit and grime of the tunnel walls to reveal a stunning portrait of a lusher San Francisco.

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Indie video game designers finally break through!

The industry has been shrinking to a handful of big players that use large teams of in-house programmers.But Silva is a one-man game maker. He's among a growing number of independents working to distribute their games to Internet-connected consoles with the help of game box makers seeking to meet demand for titles beyond the us

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40+ Extremely Beautifull Icon Sets

The web is rich with creative and amazing icon sets, and one of the most unusual source of amazing Icons Sets are those you can find on deviantART icons gallery. Today we would like to present 40 incredible icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop.

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A Design is Finished when... 23 Pro Designers Opinion's

One of the most important and hardest things to overcome when designing is to understand when the piece you are designing on is actually finished. while creativity is sometime boundless the end result should always be the result of a clear objective, the end result. I often get caught between creativity and completion and from the emails I've recei

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42 Unusually Brilliant Business Card Designs [PICS]

In today’s world of short attention spans it is more important than ever to make a compelling first impression. A brilliant business card that speaks to your profession, serves some unusual function or that transforms into something else can be a great way to grab attention and inspire those you meet. Organized into 5 helpful groups:

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Pink Floyd Album Box set

This is actually an ad of Pink Floyd albums in the official website. I have never seen a more breath taking presentation. If all advertisements were done like this, I might actually start reading them (I am ad-hater no 1)

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The Evolution of Tech Companies Logos

You’ve seen these tech logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? Did you know that Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia’s original logo was a fish?Let’s take a look at the origin of tech companies’ logos and how they evolved over time

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Is Visual Taste Perception Coloring Your Appetite?

How much does your internalized color and food associations - the ones we started developing from the very first time we saw our mothers’ arm reach across and place before us a dark green round leafy Brussels sprout - impact what you are tasting now, and how are food producers exploiting this information to influence consumers?

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St. Petersburg Starts Process of Becoming a Domed City

It's not quite a glass-domed city yet, but St. Petersberg has taken the first steps towards that goal. British architecture firm Wilkinson Eyre, best known for the design of the Gateshead Millenium Bridge in Newcastle, unveiled a bold new plan to revamp the old market of St. Petersburg, Russia by putting it entirely under glass.

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5 Innovative Industrial Designs for Ecological Living [PICS]

What if you could simply reuse packaging as part of a product rather than sending away for disposal or recycling? Some industrial designers have answered this question with creative designs where the packaging of an item becomes part of the product itself. Like creative flat-pack designs, the constraints of the projects become opportunities for sel

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Floors That Harvest The Energy From Every Little Step

Generate electricity by capturing the energy people create in such simple motions as walking, running or jumping. They envision a future city in which the crowds streaming through subway stations, sporting venues and tourist destinations produce energy for harvest.

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Good Fonts for Grapic Designers

A great resource listing 300 good fonts for graphic designers. A nice way of wading through the enormous list of fonts available on the web nicely organized.

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Bill Maher set design 'forgets' to pay photo-blogger

More evidence of just how main-stream photoblogging is -- looks like the set designer for Real Time with Bill Maher 'forgot' to pay a photo-blogger for using a composite of his images as the background of a skit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lbstone/44076689/

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Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design

As Google and Yahoo! continue their volley of product offerings, this guy thought it would be useful to compare the interface design solutions each company employed to solve similar user needs. In other words: how does Yahoo’s version of a product (Maps, Local Search, Image Search, etc.) compare to Google’s? Really neat side bu side comparision

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Amazing Collection of Design Resources

Blue Vertigo is an excellent site to have in your bookmarks. It boasts a huge collection of design resources. Including vector logotypes, stock photography, fonts, brushes, sounds and more!

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Heathrow gets world's first Personal Rapid Transport system

Driverless pods will ferry business class passengers from car to check-in beginning by the end of 2009. Could this be a new model for public transport the world over?

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Computer Inspired Architecture - Pixel House [Pics]

The Pixel House is an interesting project designed by Mass Studies and has an innovative design and a curve like geometry. It just looks like each pixel of stone jelled together to create this astonishing building, which apparently gives you an effect similar to that of a 3-dimensional picture.

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20 Pieces of Ingenious 'Flat Pack' Urban Furniture [PICS]

Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets of wood, metal or even cardboard. In addition to being clever and simply aesthetically awesome, flat pack furniture is also eco-friendly and highly creative. Check out these 20 awesome examples!

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7 of the Best CSS Resources on the Web

Design professionals once ignored CSS, chalking it up to nothing more than a fad that would eventually fade into the background. Over time, its ease of use and wealth of design applications have made it the new favorite of media designers everywhere. If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for?

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Design a Logo - The Ultimate Guide

Logo design is arguably one of the most important and valued areas of design. A quality logo design combined with the branding of an organization or company can become one of the most powerful forces in today’s society. If you love logo design as much as I do, then I am sure you will enjoy these logo design tips and resources.

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

An overview of professional step-by-step tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works.

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Happy Blue Year: 2008 Color Trends

According to color supplier Pantone®, the color of 2008 is Blue Iris. The blue is a radiant, calming hue, dark, but not dark enough to be in the realm of navy, and is a sharp contrast to the 2007 choice, Chili Pepper Red.

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Coolest Foliage Covered Botanical Building Ever

If you’re a fan of botanical architecture, this might just be the coolest building ever. Architects Minsuk Cho and Kisu Park of Mass Studies designed this flora-clothed multi-level building to house Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester’s store in Seoul, South Korea.

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Creating A Cool 3D Web Design Effect

In this tutorial I will show you some very easy techniques, using gradients and layer styles, that we can use to produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

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Geek Trends: 15 Cool Website Footers with Great Usability

Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by providing intuitive nature.

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