5
2012
Building websites for Humans
We web designers often find ourselves in a situation where there’s plenty of opportunity to make fast money by building fast and cheap sites with absolutely no brainwork behind them. They show no respect or feeling for the relationship we build with our viewers or web audience. We could create new websites with stock photography, clichéd templates and 10-year-old rusty copy that we assume makes everyone happy. Or we could follow a different path?
29
2012
How to Secure a Second Date – Infographic
Been on too many first dates? Wonder what you are not doing right? TwoMangoes, a fast growing Indian dating website gives us some insights on the do’s and dont’s through a quirky infographic.
6
2012
Need a basic logo design for under $10
To everyone looking to get logo designs for under/around $10: Why do you value your requirement so low? My question is… why would you waste those $10 as well? Get yourself a trial copy of photoshop and make the logo yourself. Trust me, it’s going to be just as good and FREE!
6
2012
Famous brand marks & their fresh impressions from a 5 year old
Design is not just for experts! And it is always interesting to document various perspectives – from professors to mentors to clients to friends to kids. Yes, kids! This is exactly what and Ohio-based identity designer Adam Ladd did. He asked his 5-year-old daughter her impressions on some popular logos.
31
2012
What’s in your glass?
Half full or half empty? We have heard this oh-so-often! If the glass is half full, or half empty? If a certain situation is in favor or against..? Or how do we react to a certain something, positively or not? Does it really matter? Its time to look at what the glass is filled with though.
29
2012
Curebit ripped off Highrise’s design – is this acceptable?
Saturday morning (night for us in Asia) had the internet abuzz with a dramatic exchange of tweets between one of the most prominent thought-leaders of the internet, DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) and a YC-combinator funded startup Curebit’s co-founder Allan Grant. Curebit has been caught red-handed stealing (design) HTML code, images, and the like from Highrise… according to a detailed report by VentureBeat.