Category: Tutorial

7 Basics to Create a Good Design Brief

There are a number of basic parts that any good design brief includes. Getting your clients to include each of these in their brief makes your job as a designer that much easier. A comprehensive, detailed brief becomes the guiding document for the entire design process, and spells out exactly what you, as the designer, need to do, and the constraints within which you need to do it.

How to Rip a CD Like a Pro – Part 1

Average folks out there may be alright with the quality of a rip of their old CD’s from iTunes, but those of us with more discerning ears want something that is of the highest quality. It is well known that FLAC is the best quality rip you can run into without playing straight from a CD, but those of us without an infinite amount of space want something that is compressed and sounds good.

Create Attractive Web Typography with CSS3 and Lettering.js

In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to take basic markup and transform it into an attractive typographical design using only minimum images, pure CSS3 magic and we will spice things up with lettering.js – a jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography.
To make things a bit interesting and less boring, instead of just using meaningless placeholder text I will use text from Jules Verne’s “Moon-Voyage” book, chapter X. The Observers of the Moon. So, let’s get started.

Common Elements Used in Wooden UI Design

We all know texture is used a lot in both modern and vintage design, although in many cases of design produced many years ago, noisy and grungy textures were unavoidable. When it comes to wooden texture in design, though, whether in a print product, a web or mobile user interface element, or general layout, it is always used to enhance visual appeal. In this article, we will look at five common elements in UI design that use wood textures to do just this.