Category Archives: Tools & Resources

How to Design an iPhone Application: Part 2

July 15, 2010 – 3:51 pm

So the last post started you down the road to iPhone app stardom. Now let’s talk about how to execute your big idea and actually get it up and running in the iTunes store:
5. Get going on the design work.
While you’re waiting for Mac’s Software Development Kit (SDK)  and Xcode files to download, work on [...]

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Time-saving Tools You Shouldn’t Miss

June 30, 2010 – 3:26 am

Smashing Magazine recently posted an excellent roundup of powerful time savers for web designers–a whopping 50 of them. Funny, trolling through a list of 50 web design tools built to help you save time doesn’t seem very efficient. That’s why you can find a recap of 4 of the most helpful/innovative/time saving ones below. They’re [...]

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Using Open Source Fonts from Google

June 25, 2010 – 3:23 pm

Until recent history, the folks working in print were having all the fun with fonts. On the digital side, web designers have had to resort to workarounds and text-filled images to even come close to the richly diverse fonts available to print designers.
But the good folks at Google are working to change that, one open [...]

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The Art of Animation

May 14, 2010 – 6:44 pm

In the name of Avatar and the soon-to-hit-theaters Toy Story III, we’re going to focus on animation this week.  New technologies are sprouting up daily, so if your work in web design isn’t animated, it’s hard to make it pop. Without further ado, let’s take a look at some animation programs that just might blow [...]

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Hopping on the App Train

April 19, 2010 – 1:59 pm

Web Design for the iNation
As if you weren’t busy enough, Apple has devised a way to fill your idle time. The “apps” that have largely distinguished the iPad from its Blackberry-type competitors are becoming necessities in our day-to-day lives. Well, the successful ones are. If you are a web designer or graphic designer and want [...]

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