Month: December 2009

It’s the end of the road 2009

Well, 2009 was a great year. I’ve been amazed and blessed by the community who reads what I write on this blog. It’s been a privileged to email, tweet and chat with many of you and even better to exchange phone...

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Better Design: Alignment

At time I find this rule for design to be the hardest. You might as well. A good designer pays very close attention to alignment. Boiled down, alignment means that nothing is arranged on the page without thought and every single...

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Eye-Fi Review

If you follow me on facebook or twitter, you’ve probably noticed that I post pictures via eye-fi (you’ve seen my eye-fi automatic updates every time pictures are posted). I bought one of these eye-fi cards last May,...

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Better Design: Repetition

So this rule is easy. Repetition is finding certain elements that naturally repeat and strengthening them. The idea of repetition is to unify your overall design. Although this is really important on multi-page designs, it is...

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Experimenting with dropbox

A few years ago I became familiar with a free little application called FolderShare. Microsoft had purchased FolderShare and had been working to incorporate it into their “live” suite of services and today...

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Better Design: Contrast

The first rule is to incorporate contrast into your design. You want to avoid elements that are all alike. Usually contrast is the most important part of the design… the thing that gets a person to look at the design to...

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Better Design: 4 Rules

There are more than four simple rules, otherwise everyone would be a design genius. However, these four rules will significantly help you to design better. Just becasue you follow these rules doesn’t mean everything you...

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