Archive for October, 2010

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Mobility: A free set of mobile UI design elements

This post was written by Jason on October 18, 2010

If you haven’t heard yet, jQuery released their new mobile framework over the weekend, and we couldn’t be more excited. To celebrate, we’re giving away a free set of mobile UI elements (.psd) to help speed the customization of your mobile web application designs. Use them in any way you see fit with no credit necessary, but please don’t redistribute directly! continue reading…

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The Complicated Task Of Keeping Things Simple

This post was written by Evan on October 7, 2010

There is a well known saying in the design community, keep it simple stupid. It’s an oldie, but a goodie and has proven itself worthy through the years. My personal design style relies heavily on this concept as I think simplicity is the key to understanding. My job as a designer is to visually communicate a certain message to a target audience, so the clearer I can be the better off I am. While working here at Full Creative, I have been involved in quite a few web application projects which are very fun and very daunting. Simplicity in app design is essential, either use it or people won’t buy your product. After spending weeks in the application design process, I have come across some interesting issues and would like to share some of my solutions. continue reading…

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The Web of Babel

This post was written by David on October 4, 2010

Some recent work has made me think a little more broadly about accessibility. In the web design community accessibility has been one of the hottest topics over the years. Thanks to the hard work of a lot of smart people there are rules and standards we can follow to make websites more accessible to the blind, near blind and color blind. Joe Clark has even been pushing for better use of captioning to make video more accessible. While all of these efforts are great they still leave out a vastly larger audience. The non-English speaking world makes up over 70% of internet users. continue reading…