User Human Experience Design
When we talk about user experience (UX), what is it that we are actually talking about? Moving a mouse around a computer screen, clicking on buttons, and using application toolbars and navigational tiers all come to mind. … More »
This web design training is to show people how to create a responsive layout for their site using Dreamweaver CS6. Using Fluid layouts, HTML5 & CSS3.
Coming out of a drop shadow and beveled gradient daze, the new trend of flat interface design (also referred to as simple, minimal, or Bauhaus UI) is emerging as the new cool kid. Like all trends it has been brewing for some time, but has only recently began to define itself and to be consciously put into practice. It is a detox from years of glitzy visual excess; a pendulum swing back into an opposing aesthetic of simplicity and austerity.
In the early days of the web, designs needed to fit onto 640 x 480 pixel monitors (who remembers that? Ugh). A few years later and the average monitor had grown in size to 800 x 600, then to 1024 x 768, and so it goes on. Except it doesn’t. With the increasing ubiquity of smartphones, tablets, netbooks and cheap, widescreen, overgrown desktop monitors, designing websites has become a whole lot more complicated.
When I discovered I would be in the UK at the same time the second Ampersand Conference was happening, I booked straight away. Subtitled “the web typography conference”, I thought the subject was probably too niche to warrant a full conference in little old NZ, but I was keen to meet some other web/type nerds and to see how an international design conference compares to ones I have been to at home.
So much of our modern day digital interaction is littered with repetitive, menial or unnecessary tasks. Fill out that form, scroll through that list, yes or no, cancel ok. Somehow we manage click our way through these tedious, often badly designed scenarios driven mostly by habit.
This week we talk to Ludwig Wendzich, web designer and developer behind Gather – Auckland’s annual barcamp, an un-conference that’s been running for the last six years supporting and encouraging the creative community of Auckland.
Tell us a little about your … More »
Stop thinking that WordPress is a blogging platform – 63% of the top million websites that use a CMS use WordPress and approximately 15% of the web is powered by WordPress. It’s not going away any time soon.
