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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

8 (more) Faces

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For those of you who haven’t heard about Elliot Jay Stocks brilliant new magazine 8 Faces, this article is a great review of it’s purpose, where it’s been and where it’s going. For me it’s a must read and any web designer serious about their craft will take note.

http://www.idsgn.org/posts/8-more-faces/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+idsgn+%28idsgn+%28a+design+blog%29%29Read 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

50 Pixel Perfect Examples of Perfect Button Design

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The all important button is the cornerstone of any web design. It’s where a user interacts with your design, the all-mighty “click”. The challenge of button design is to design something that pops without overpowering, that calls attention to itself, and looks “clickable”. It’s a tall order, this article shows 50 really great examples of good button design.

http://inspirationfeed.com/2010/10/50-examples-of-pixel-perfect-button-design/Read the Article
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