LEAD: Cosmetics and Accesories Website (Job Lead #34948): Design Quote

Design Job Lead: Cosmetics and Accesories Website , LEAD: 34948, Design Job, bid, My goal: I would like a unique website that engages customers and intrigues and it is an easy shoppi

LEAD: Logo Design for Construction Company (Job Lead #34945): Design Quote

Design Job Lead: Logo Design for Construction Company, LEAD: 34945, Design Job, bid, My Goals for this project are: standardize our corporate logo for email, print, signage, website, co

LEAD: Data Backup and Recovery (Job Lead #34949): Design Quote

Design Job Lead: Data Backup and Recovery, LEAD: 34949, Design Job, bid, My Goals for this project are: to give information about our company and the services we provide. Wi

How to Achieve LinkedIn Failure – A SPN Exclusive Article | SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources

LinkedIn is a rapidly expanding social media platform that appeals more exclusively to business individuals than Facebook and Twitter; especially to those interested in business-to-business (B2B) possibilities. You undoubtedly know that already.

AIGA | Richard Grefé on The Creative Team of the Future

Richard Grefé, executive director of AIGA, the professional association for design, discusses how creative professionals can elevate their role in the business world and earn greater validation for their work.

AIGA | Beer Bottle Cap Collection

What to do with a box full of beer bottle caps?

AIGA | Case Study: U.S. Navy CEC-OSC Identity Launch

A new identity for the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Officers’ Spouses’ Club highlights a mission of friendship and service while encouraging more support for military families.

AIGA | Relighting the Spark: Powering Up Your Creative Process

How do we think outside the box? How do we generate new ideas? Lisa Schneller shares some answers to these questions, culled from her experience at AIGA San Francisco’s “D. Talks: Power-Up Your Creative Process” with Maria Giudice of Hot Studio, Ji Lee of Facebook, Rick Byrne of CBS Interactive and Josh Levine of Great Monday.

A List Apart: Articles: Audiences, Outcomes, and Determining User Needs

Every website needs an audience. And every audience needs a goal. Advocating for end-user needs is the very foundation of the user experience disciplines. We make websites for real people. Those real people are able to do real things. But how do we get to really know our audience and find out what these mystery users really want from our sites and applications? Learn to ensure that every piece of content on your site relates back to a specific, desired outcome — one that achieves business goals by serving the end user. Corey Vilhauer explains the threads that bind UX research to content strategy and project deliverables that deliver.

A List Apart: Articles: The Best Browser is the One You Have with You

The web as we know and build it has primarily been accessed from the desktop. That is about to change. The ITU predicts that in the next 18–24 months, mobile devices will overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the web. If these predictions come true, very soon the web—and its users—will be mostly mobile. Even designers who embrace this change can find it confusing. One problem is that we still consider the mobile web a separate thing. Stephanie Rieger of futurefriend.ly and the W3C presents principles to understand and design for a new normal, in which users are channel agnostic, devices are plentiful, standards are fleeting, mobile use doesn’t necessarily mean “hide the desktop version,” and every byte counts.

A List Apart: Articles: For a Future-Friendly Web

It is time to move toward a future-friendly web. Our current device landscape is a plethora of desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablets, feature phones, smartphones, and more, but this is just the beginning. The rapid pace of technological change is accelerating, and our current processes, standards, and infrastructure are quickly reaching their breaking points. How can we deal with increasing device diversity and decreasing attention spans? Brad Frost of futurefriend.ly explains how, while this era of ubiquitous connectivity creates new challenges, it also creates tremendous opportunities to reach people wherever they may be.

A List Apart: Articles: Style Tiles and How They Work

How do you involve your client in a successful design process? Many of our processes date back to print design and advertising. It’s time we evolved our deliverables to make clients a more active participant in the process. The style tile is a design deliverable that references website interface elements through font, color, and style collections delivered alongside a site map, wireframes, and other user experience artifacts. Learn how style tiles can align client and designer expectations, expedite project timelines, involve stakeholders in the brainstorming process, and serve an essential role in responsive design.

A List Apart: Articles: Artistic Distance

Pimpin’ ain’t easy; neither is self-critique. If you are passionate about what you create, it is impossible to completely disassociate yourself from your work in order to objectively evaluate and then improve it. But the ability to achieve “artistic distance”—that is, to attain a place that allows you to contemplate your design on its own merits—will enable you to improve your own work immeasurably and, ultimately, to cast off the immature shackles of ego. Learn to let your work shine by letting go of it. Acquire the knack of achieving artistic distance.

Smart Sand Can Clone Objects, Says MIT

MIT researchers are taking the intelligence of inanimate objects to an, uh, granular level

Oakland Police Department Uses Twitter to Report on Oikos University Shooting

At least five people were killed today when a gunman opened fire inside Oikos University, private religious university in Oakland, California.

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Custom iPhone Call Screen Maker

Call Screen Maker offers a unique chance to add some colors and beauty to your iPhone or iPod (any generation will do).

How to Create a Simple HTML/PHP Form

PHP is a fairly simple language to get to grips with. It’s a loosely-typed, server side language, and is a perfect choice for building web applications. PHP provides many useful tools for creating dynamic HTML and has a built in MySQL library, which is why it’s predominantly used in conjunction with MySQL databases.

Featured Firm of the Week: Venveo

An innovation-led digital agency that creates strategic solutions through purposeful design.

Restaurant Sites Make Me Hungry!

Many restaurant owners don’t want an overly complex website but rather a simple, professional-looking, and affordable restaurant website that will provide a great first impression to their on-line users.

Featured Firm of the Week: Lexcio Media

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