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Every year about this time HGTV gives away a stunning home to one lucky winner. And this year is no exception. Vern Yip is the designer behind this state-of-the-art luxury apartment located in The Residences at W New York-Downtown.
In this web design and development tutorial, you’ll get a walkthrough for creating a "Call to ...
This week's Texture Thursday offers 4 super high-res canvas giz textures, free to use in your own de...
Some people have all of the answers. Today, none of those -- just questions.What follows are some of...
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If you've been reading Spyre Studios lately I'm sure you've read about MediaLoot, a brand new site...
In the past months I have written a couple of articles on icons; the most recent titled: Freebies: S...
Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny,...
Now time has come to announce the winner of 1,000 standard business cards giveaway from NextDayFlyer...
We are giving away thanks to Brian Iannone, 5 high resolution royalty-free cloud texture packs. The ...
Design is constantly changing and moving forward. However, typography is one aspect of design that s...
"The interactive sketching notation is an emerging visual language which affords the representation of interface states and event-based user actions. Through a few simple and standardized rules, what the user sees (drawn in greys and blacks) and does (drawn in red) are unified into a coherent sketching system. This unification of both interface and use, intends to enable designers to tell more powerful stories of interaction. "
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Wireframes Mag pointed to an XML to OmniGraffle Sitmap Generator created by Jason Kunesh at Fuzzy Math to generate a sitemap from an XML file. The script assumes that your XML file consists of url elements, and that parent child relationships are defined by the paths in the url. For instance, http://konigi.com/about-site/unicorns would be a child of http://konigi.com/about-site. Once you generate a list of your urls and pass it to the script, OmniGraffle generates the sitemap hierarchy for you.
This is a fantastic interview of Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose where Bezos talks about why Kindle shouldn't be the iPad and why Amazon's new mission is "Earth's most customer-centric company."
Draftboard is a wireframe and visual design review web app for capturing design reviews of your work.
This is a pretty fun comparison of a Windows 7 Hanvon tablet and the iPad. Mute the music and Steve Jobs voice over unless your into that kind of cacophony.
If you're curious about Keynote prototyping, Travis Isaacs' describes how he works with the presentation software to produce click-through prototypes. As Travis notes, it's even useful to people who like to go between a low-fidelity wireframe created in another application to interactive demonstrations.
There's no doubt about where the call to action is here. I especially like the useful copy on this page. "If for any reason you are unwilling or unable to click the giant button, please email us..."