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From the get-go, Square Grid has been intended to offer less. Sometimes less is more, especially so when it comes to front-end web development.
Square Grid is a Drupal 7 base theme* leveraging the design and implementation power of Square Grid, combined with principles of responsive design. It's been in active development, with new features and the odd bug fix pushed live periodically over the...
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We all want beautiful things. A beautiful graphic user interface is no exception. But how do you define beauty? Pretty colors? Balanced composition? Elegant typography? Appealing trimmings? Grid fidelity?
Without diminishing those things, my feeling is that, when it comes to GUIs, the most beautiful are the ones you don't notice. The beautiful GUI is so useful, so understandable, so usable that...
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Earlier this month at Drupal Design Camp Los Angeles 2011, I presented an update on Grok Drupal (7) Theming, which I had originally presented last year at DrupalCon San Francisco.
A lot has changed since March 2010.
The presentation is for people who are new to Drupal theming, as well as those who want to get a better sense of what's new in Drupal 7 theming.
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Grids. They're powerful. They're helpful. They can make design work much easier. (And occasionally harder.) They can be used for good or ill. And they can trap the designer in a cage of vertical and horizontal bars.
The question as to the use grids is not settled among designers, especially on the web. The arguments seem to fall into these three categories:
Grids are useless. Design has to be...
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Described succinctly by Tad Crawford in AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design, the design brief “digs deep into a project and identifies the main factors that drive the entire creative strategy.”
Indeed, a well-crafted brief is invaluable for most any sizeable design project. It functions like a compass, allowing client and design team to ascertain periodically that north is still north,...
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Taking a step back to review methodology every so often is a great way of keeping work fresh, as it means you don't slip into a routine. Lately here at PINGV, we have been looking for ways to streamline projects and enhance how we communicate conceptual ideas to our clients.
At one point in the discussions, thinking about how we create and present visual design comps, we all remembered Mood...
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