Design Informer

Category: Community

This category aims to advance a professional discussion on Web design and development. It features the opinions of active members of the community, and it explores the design process and the meaning of design and its various facets. Curated by Jad Limcaco.

Popular tags in this category: Opinion Column, Discussions, Workflow, Creativity, Skills, Design.

Design Informer Has Changed

By Jad Limcaco
August 1st, 2011
Events
34 Comments

For a little while now, this website has been feeling a bit neglected. Well, that’s all about to change. Design Informer will see some exciting days ahead. Over the last few weeks, through a number of emails and brainstorming chat sessions, the Smashing Magazine team and I have been planning some important changes that we would like to share with you in this post.

Photoshop Layer Styles in CSS3

By Jad Limcaco
July 28th, 2011
CSS3
6 Comments

I just ran across this awesome project by Felix Niklas and it blew my mind. it's an HTML5 app for creating CSS3 in an intuitive way. The interface is very similar to Photoshop and functions just like it as well. I wrote a little preview/breakdown/review of it.

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CSS3 Buttons Experiment

By Jad Limcaco
July 26th, 2011
CSS3
14 Comments

So I had a little fun last night and decided to experiment with some CSS3 buttons. I created eight different buttons so far. No images were used at all. I went wild with gradients and rounded corners.

High-Quality and Free Design Resource Websites

By Jad Limcaco
July 25th, 2011
Design
20 Comments

Design Informer is here to inform you of some great high-quality websites that offer some really good design resources. Best of all, these resources are free. Whether you are looking for a button, textures, or other web design elements for your next design, you are sure to find it in one of these websites.

The Best Free Fonts for Designers

By Jad Limcaco
July 19th, 2011
Fonts
17 Comments

I've been meaning to write this post but just haven't had the time to do so. I've received several messages and emails asking me about fonts that I use on some of my design projects. I have a pretty large font collection. Some of them are paid, but a lot of them are free! First of all, I suggest investing in some of the best typefaces out there but I also suggest that you take advantage of the free resources that can be found online.

TechCrunch Redesign

By Jad Limcaco
July 12th, 2011
Redesign
48 Comments

TechCrunch, the group-edited blog about technology start-ups, launched their redesign today. It's quite different from the previous design and it's already drawing a lot of criticism and hate. They redesigned everything, including the logo which is causing quite a stir right now.

Pushing the Envelope in Web Design

By Jad Limcaco
July 11th, 2011
Creativity
16 Comments

For years, everyone thought that running a mile in four minutes was physically impossible. Roger Bannister, a student at Merton College in Oxford wanted to try and break that record. He wanted to be the first person on earth to run a mile in under four minutes. For months, he kept trying and trying and something always happened that prevented him from breaking the record.

50 Things Every Creative Should Know

By Jad Limcaco
July 8th, 2011
Creativity
5 Comments

I ran across this excellent project that was created by designer and Illustrator, Jamie Wieck. The project consists of a list of 50 things that every creative should know. Also, each point on the list comes in 144 characters or less so you can share it through Twitter. There's also a fun, quirky illustration that accompanies each point.