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What Font Should I Use?

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Great read at Smashing Magazine about the principles of choosing the right typefaces when designing. With the advent of web fonts, now more than ever, choosing the right typefaces is so important to the tone and feel of a design. I spend hours sometimes agonizing over what font to use, but it’s just so critical to the overall success of the design and the brand. Great read!

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/14/what-font-should-i-use-five-principles-for-choosing-and-using-typefaces/Read the Article

Creating Meaningful Web Design

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Mike Kus wrote over at 24Ways, a wonderful article about creating designs based on the viewer and the potential user rather than focusing on design trends. He posits that creating a visual and meaningful experience that is relevant to the industry your website falls within is more powerful than creating a site that fits in with the current web trends. I couldn’t agree more!

http://24ways.org/2010/beyond-web-mechanics-creating-meaningful-web-designRead the Article

Failure By Design

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I fabulous article by Francisco Inchauste over at GetFinch.com about how failure teaches us how to succeed in the future. As a creative, you’re constantly battling with yourself, the battle of taking creative chances knowing that your client may not like them. It’s hard to put so much of yourself into a thing that may not be loved, but that’s how we learn and how we grow. Great insights, highly recommend the read.

http://www.getfinch.com/finch/entry/failure-design/Read the Article

Myth #27: UX Design is about usability

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I’ve told my clients many times that part of making a site usable for your users is to make it memorable and fun to spend time with. Studies have shown that professional and well crafted design elevates the trustworthiness of a site as well as it’s credibility. In many cases, especially if you’re selling a niche service or product, well crafted web design makes it easy to remember to come back to and to tell friends and family about. This is a wonderful article over at UX Myths articulating this very well.

http://uxmyths.com/post/1533970267/myth-27-ux-design-is-about-usabilityRead the Article

Fitness in Design

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Gavin Elliot writes a fantastic post about mental and physical fitness for Designers, that a healthy brain and body impacts our creativity and inspiration. I myself get out for an hour a day in the middle of my day to get some air and recharge. I also go to Yoga a few nights a week to stretch, tone and centre myself.

http://www.gavinelliott.co.uk/2010/11/fitness-in-design/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gavinelliottblog+%28Gavin+Elliott+Blog%29Read the Article
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