This vector icon set, just one of many from a collection, is meant to serve as a clear representation of the actions and elements users commonly deal with when visiting websites and using web applications. You’re free to use these for both personal and commercial use with no credit necessary, but please do not distribute directly. continue reading…
I have a great memory for faces. Yet, I’ve worked on projects with clients and team members that I couldn’t point out in an empty restaurant. It’s not that I’m going senile; I’ve never seen their faces. I’m a web designer and, like many web designers, the people I work with are frequently scattered all over the country. However, this style of working didn’t fully prepare me for working with a development team in Chennai, India. continue reading…
Switch is a minimalist icon set presented with clean lines and sharp edges. Part one in the set consists of 54 painstakingly handcrafted icons, free and presented in both light and dark format. You’re free to use these for both personal and commercial use with no credit necessary, but please do not distribute directly (we need the traffic :) continue reading…
A couple years ago my mind was blown when, after spending years working Photoshop, a friend of mine brought a tiny checkbox to my attention: Auto-Select. Auto-Select is pretty self explanatory. When turned on, it allows you select objects on your canvas by clicking directly on them no matter what layer they’re on, similar to using Illustrator. Furthermore, if you simultaneously have View > Show > Layer Edges selected, you will also see bounding boxes around elements, again similar to Illustrator.
Our team has just begun using a neat, but powerful little program called Arq. Arq is a simple backup application developed by Haystack Software, which runs in the background and automatically keeps versions of folders you point it too. It’s similar to Time Machine in that regard, however the biggest differentiator is that it backs your files up to the cloud via Amazon’s S3. Additionally, Arq allows multiple computers to utilize the same S3 instance, which means my team and I can all share work files effortlessly. continue reading…
After spending the last few years of using Adobe Illustrator on a daily basis I am still convinced the best way to save time while illustrating is to use the pathfinder tool.
I have found the fastest way to create an illustration is to block elements out, meaning to draw with large shapes and then add to or subtract from them with other large shapes. continue reading…
One of my pet peeves is difficult to open product packaging. You know the kind I mean. The rigid, impossibly sealed plastic containers that electronics often are encased in. The product looks so appealing in its glossy synthetic bubble. It serves it’s purpose well. No ugly cardboard to get in the way of you and your desire – just clear unobtrusive product packaging at it’s finest. It’s perfect. Perfect, that is, until you actually want to get it out of the packaging. To me, this is the perfect real world example of forgetting the user experience once you’ve got them into the funnel.
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NOTE: I wrote this entry while in the NICU hospital room shortly after my second daughter’s birth. There’s a lot of down time with a baby that sleeps 20 hours a day…
The faucet in our hospital room in the NICU is aesthetically very pleasing. It is sleek and the absence of nobs, buttons or handles definitely adds to it’s minimalist form. It is essentially the simplest form of a faucet. I place my hands under it and water comes out, cold at first and then warm. I remove my hands and the water ceases to flow. Perfect right? Not exactly…
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