The Help files provided with your Adobe software should be the first place you turn when you are trying to figure out how to do something. Don’t waste time searching through countless websites, trying to figure it out on your own or creating a horrible work around that only actually works half the time.
You watch the Super Bowl just for the commercials and then critique the CG and cinematography.
Your friends and family won’t watch movies or TV with you because you make too many comments about the poor lighting or bad composition.
You are pro-Facebook because 95% of the MySpace pages burn your retinas.
You are completely immune to subliminal advertising.
You refuse to purchase products that have poorly designed packaging.
Or is it the other way around?
Which is more important?
It’s a tough question for some—design or usability—but it is a question that you need to know the answer to.
We got into a bit of a discussion about it on Wednesday, with 11 Must-Have Web Design Tools, and I wanted to open up the conversation a little more. Design and/vs. usability can be a controversial topic, especially among designers. Some say usability is everything and others think design and aesthetic appeal are the only things that matter.
Go ahead and bookmark this page right now because below you’ll find the most used resources of a web design extraordinaire.
A note from Lauren: Several of you have been asking for more articles and information on web design. I don’t have a whole lot of experience in that area, though it interests me; my expertise lies […]
Ok this might be really lame to many of you, but unfortunately Microsoft Office is a staple in the business world and I find it necessary to create Word templates for other departments to use at my work. This can be a frustrating experience! InDesign is so much more intuitive and I know that I can control the text and object to do exactly what I want them to do. Word sometimes just likes to mess my files up for no reason! Gah!
The following tutorial is valid for Microsoft Word 2000 – 2003 (screenshots from 2003). It may be the same in other versions, like 2007, but I don’t have access to them, so I couldn’t test it.
I had a lot of fun this week coming up with a combination of “curio” and interesting brush work. I looked to the more mystic side of the traveling circuses for my inspiration and I really like the direction this design is headed. Last week I thought I was taking on a look that was […]
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