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by James Chung

Top Design Firms Over Five Years October 31, 2006

Filed under: Design — James @ 5:27 pm

Top Design Consultant IDEA Winners

IDEO
Design Continuum (Italy)
Smart Design
fuseproject
ZIBA
Lunar Design
Pentagram
Herbst LaZar Bell (HLB)
Altitude
RKS Design Inc.
@radical.media
Antenna Design N.Y.
Ralph Appelbaum

 

Top 2005 Winners October 31, 2006

Filed under: Design — James @ 5:23 pm

2005 Winning Design Firms

1. IDEO
2. Design Continuum
3. Fuseproject
4. Antenna Design
5. Tools Design
6. Altitude
7. Smart Design
8. Alto Design
9. Astro Studios
10. Atelier Markgraph
11. Cesaroni
12. designafairs
13. Herbst LaZar Bell
14. Karim Rashid
15. Kauffmann Theilig + Partner
16. Lakeside Product Development
17. One & Co. ID
18. RKS Design
19. Whipsaw
20. ZIBA

 

The Complete List of CSS Tools October 31, 2006

Filed under: Design — James @ 5:17 pm
 

The Complete List of Ajax Tools October 31, 2006

Filed under: Design — James @ 5:15 pm

Ajax has really taken off over the last two years. Ajax is really just the combination of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. With the advancement of Ajax, new frameworks, utilities, and software packages have been built to make the production of Ajax web sites much easier.

 

Avoid These 10 Interview Bloopers October 30, 2006

Filed under: Career and Job — James @ 4:50 pm

You can learn from the mistakes of others and avoid the top 10 worst interview blunders.

 

Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites October 30, 2006

Filed under: Web — James @ 4:47 pm

Web 2.0 sites are cropping up all over the place!  From Social Bookmarking Sites, to Real Estate sites, this list has only the best Web 2.0 Sites available today!

 

Web design is 95% typography October 30, 2006

Filed under: Design, Web — James @ 1:27 am

95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.

 

Getting Real, the book October 30, 2006

Filed under: Design — James @ 12:58 am
 

Five simple steps to better typography October 30, 2006

Filed under: Design — James @ 12:57 am

Typography, I find, is still a bit of mystery to a lot of designers. The kind of typography I’m talking about is not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography.

 

First Principles of Interaction Design October 28, 2006

Filed under: Design — James @ 11:29 pm

The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments or the web. Of late, many web applications have reflected a lack of understanding of many of these principles of interaction design, to their great detriment. Because an application or service appears on the web, the principles do not change. If anything, applying these principles become even more important.