Rather than tailoring disconnected designs to each of an ever-increasing number of web devices, we can treat them as facets of the same experience. We can design for an optimal viewing experience, but embed standards-based technologies into our designs to make them not only more flexible, but more adaptive to the media that renders them. [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Principles of icon design
Jon Hicks, icon designer of Mail Chimp and Font Explorer Pro, shares his slides from his Future of Web Design (FOWD) talk from last week on icon designing.
CSS3 Gradients Coffee Cup
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of really cool experiments with CSS3 techniques. Here’s another tutorial on how to achieve ring-like gradients using CSS3.
Reversed logotype illusion
Jon Tan discusses the optical illusion and bloating of black text verses white text on backgrounds and how to fix it.
The dawn of the redesign
After two years, some odd months and endless hours of starting over from scratch, I’m excited to announce and display The Design Cubicle’s redesign! Not only did we give it a fresh coat of paint and some detailed body work, but we also worked with our friends at Paravel — Trent Walton (@TrentWalton) and Dave Rupert [...]
HTML5 Watch
A blog dedicated to emerging websites using HTML5 and CSS3
