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Free premium icon pack
15/03/10 18:06
We all love freebies and in the web design world one of the best freebies you can get is an Icon pack. I recently found a great free Icon pack on Tutorial9 and have used it in my latest project Harmony GTD. The Nixus icon pack contains 60 icons in transparent .png format in 64x64px, 48x48px and 32x32px sizes. They can be used without attribution in personal and commercial projects!
The five second test
06/03/10 15:32
During the design stages of Harmony GTD I created a wide variety of possible layouts, logos and themes; deciding which to use was a real problem as I needed a visual identity that people could remember and most importantly associate with task management.
Our opinion is often formed within the first five-seconds of viewing a site; a great tool to find out your users initial reaction is appropriately called “Fivesecondtest”. The site works by showing users your design for five-seconds and then asking them to list five things that they remember.
Many of the mockups and designs had a 60’s theme with the intended atmosphere of a friendly and easy to use site; however when these designs were shown to users through the fivesecondtest website most only remembered the distinctive theme and none of the task management text or branding. To convey our intended visual identity every single element of the site needed to be in some way associated with task management; out went the other artwork and in came notepads, calendars and other task related imagery. After a few more design iterations all of the users responses were related to task management and GTD, success.
Our opinion is often formed within the first five-seconds of viewing a site; a great tool to find out your users initial reaction is appropriately called “Fivesecondtest”. The site works by showing users your design for five-seconds and then asking them to list five things that they remember.
Many of the mockups and designs had a 60’s theme with the intended atmosphere of a friendly and easy to use site; however when these designs were shown to users through the fivesecondtest website most only remembered the distinctive theme and none of the task management text or branding. To convey our intended visual identity every single element of the site needed to be in some way associated with task management; out went the other artwork and in came notepads, calendars and other task related imagery. After a few more design iterations all of the users responses were related to task management and GTD, success.
CSS Border Radius made easy
05/03/10 13:46
Rounded CSS borders are used on most modern sites today; this free web-app makes it easy to generate the code required to make your own rounded borders. Check it out