Category Archives: design

Apple’s web designer

Here’s something I always wanted to know: Who designed apple’s website?
Today I came across this information by chance, while researching on skinning flex components (the results of this research will be another post).
So, turns out the guy is called Jason Wilson and you can check out his rather impressive porfolio here: http://wilson.tv/

Flash Chroma Keying

This is some pretty amazing stuff by Mario Klingemann (Quasimondo). You can key in real time so you can point your webcam at a uniform background and knock it out on the fly. This is pretty old and written for flash 8 so performance is not what it could be. Once this is ported to [...]

Upload PSD, pay, wait..

And get back standards compliant XHTML. And all that in 8 hours? Wow! I havn’t tried this yet but I sure am tempted.
http://www.psd2html.com/
UPDATE:
I’ve found another service that offers the same thing:
http://www.psd2website.com/ 

Consistency in Design

Creating consistent and unified user experiences, especially with dispersed project teams, requires tight design guidelines. Yahoo has started a page listing some useful rules.
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/atoz.php

Flipclips

I found a really nice product online which I think I will be taking advantage of very soon!
http://www.flipclips.com/
Basically it allows you to make a flip book from any movie, coporate or personal. A very nice idea.

Free Icons

After having been pointed towards the fantastic Tango Open Source Icons Project
I started a search on creative commons for free icons and came across the fabulous FAMFAMFAM and Graphic Push blogs which both offer some fantastic free icons.
Another interesting blog: Pretty Widgets by Kevin Gerich.