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Never worry about font sizes again! (Just use these)

September 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Learn web design. A design book for developers & programmers | Design for Hackers A book that helps developers & entrepreneurs learn visual design. It debuted at #18 on all of Amazon. by @kadavy Learn design with our free email course Â» September 25 2014 â€“ 01:42pm One of the best ways to establish a clear visual hierarchy, and create a design that converts, is to change the sizes of the fonts you use. Big fonts look more important, smaller fonts look less important. Simple, right? The problem is, you waste time and mental energy worrying about what font size to use. 13px? 14px? 15px? If you stop wasting your time and energy worrying about font sizes, you can start worrying about all of the other important aspects of …

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Creating Clickthrough Prototypes With Blueprint

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Advertisement In a previous article1, I discussed using POP2 to create sketch-based clickthrough prototypes in participatory design exercises. These prototypes capture well the flow and overall layout of early design alternatives. The same piece briefly mentioned another category of clickthrough prototypes: widget-based mockups that are designed on the target device and that expand on sketches by introducing user interface (UI) details and increased visual fidelity. These prototypes can be used to pitch ideas to clients, document interactions and even test usability. In this article, I will teach you how to use the iPad app Blueprint to put together such prototypes in the form of concept demos, which help to manage a clientâ€™s expectations when you are aligning your visions of a product. Given the …

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InDesign Best Practices for EPUB Exports

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Tweet embedded content Email Sharebar Tweet embedded content Email When faced with ridiculous deadlines and last-minute, messy copy from editors, designers may resort to bad InDesign habits. Here are some basic InDesign best practices that are especially important to follow when the file will be exported to epub. While there are ways to clean up the problems caused by not following these guidelines, it pays to follow them from the start. And if youâ€™re just too damn busy designing, you can hire a professional typesetter (hi!) to handle all of this quickly and cleanly. Your clients will thank you for providing squeaky-clean files. Styles Paragraph and Character Styles are usually translated to CSS for epub, so you should use them to format ALL …

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Font of the day: Lodgecode

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Font of the day: Lodgecode | Typography | Creative Bloq TypographyShowcase Sep 15, 2014 12:09 pm Share this article Every day we showcase the best fonts on the web. Today it’s Lodgecode by Jeff Warrington. Here at Creative Bloq, we’re big fans of typography and we’re constantly on the hunt for new and exciting typefaces â€“ especially free fonts. So, if you’re in need of a font for your latest design or just like to keep a collection so you’re prepared, we may be able to help out. Every day, we’re running ‘Font of the day’, where we’ll be posting the best best free and paid-for fonts the web has to offer. Lodgecode by Jeff Warrington Today’s font of choice, Lodgecode, was created by designer Jeff Warrington of The …

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An Introduction to Icon Fonts with Font Awesome and IcoMoon

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Icon fonts are all the rage nowadays, with more and more developers taking advantage of them in their designs. If you havenâ€™t yet looked into icon fonts, this article can get you started.Iâ€™ll demonstrate the great things we can achieve using icon fonts but first Iâ€™ll take a look at what icon fonts are and what are their pros and cons. Then, weâ€™ll examine two popular icon fonts and weâ€™ll see different examples showing how we can use them in our projects. What are Icon Fonts? Icon fonts are just fonts. However, instead of containing letters or numbers, they contain symbols and glyphs. You can style them with CSS in the same way you style regular text which has made them …

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