We’ve been busy, here at Design Commission, building a client review tool which, we feel, presents web design work in the best possible way. Head over the WrkView.com and check it out, or watch the video here.
I hate using the mouse. For me, it is a slow and painful (literally) task. Out of this hatred comes my love for keyboard shortcuts. Here are a few Mac OSX commands I can’t live without. Command-control-shift-4: Takes a screenshot of an area and puts it on the clipboard, NOT on the desktop. This is [...]
The addition of sound to many interactive projects can have significant pay off. I am not suggesting that it is always necessary or appropriate (don’t do this), but for for some of the projects we work on, such as Flash games, it can can be the difference between a marginally entertaining experience and a captivating [...]
Despite the fact that the golden age of dial-up is behind us, web performance and web page loading times still matter… a lot. Mobile browsing and the public’s generally short attention span are two good reasons to care. Here is a fun tool to test the loading time of your site by putting it head-to-head [...]
Placehold.it is a “quick and simple image placeholder service” for web designers and developers. To use, simply format the URL with the image size details of your choice and the image is created dynamically. For example, the following URL generated the image above: http://www.placehold.it/570×300. Various image formats, colors, and placeholder text can also be specified. http://www.placehold.it
While trying to recreate/fix bugs uncovered by clients, I often find myself asking questions such as “what browser are you using?” and “what version of Flash do you have installed?”. As some clients are less tech-savvy than others, these questions are not always easily answered. There is hope however. Imulus Design + Interactive has developed [...]
Recently, I came across TinyGrab while reading Derek Punslalan’s blog, 5THIRTYONE. Simply put – TinyGrab is a screen capture utility that instantly uploads your selection to the Web and then copies an obscure URL to your clipboard for easy sharing. There are a TON of screenshot utilities out there (as well as Snow Leopard’s improved [...]
We just wrapped a fun little project with the amazing Marcelo Calbucci from Seattle 2.0 called TweepML. Marcelo elequently describes the services as: A simple explanation: TweepML is a format to share groups of Twitter users. TweepML.org is a service that allows you to create and manage your lists, and also find other interesting lists [...]
Love this little creation from Scott Dierdorf: Family portrait made with my new web site design stencil from @designcom.http://twitpic.com/82yxa So, how about it–what are you doing with your DC stencils?
As we started talking about design tools, I’d like to mention the realm of public domain and its rich image collection. In website design it is crucial to nail just the right visuals and for some projects pd images are the perfect solution to the problem. Here are my favorite few sites offering a wide [...]