Web, design & development Blog
If you’re asking me to share with you some of the best web designs in the world, chances are I’m going to point you in the direction of something that’s pretty minimal. In fact, if you ask most designers, they’ll point you to sites that are equally sparse. Myself and others tend to believe that less is... read more
I'm hard at work creating a brand new talk I'm so far calling "CSS is for Computers" that I plan to be giving and refining at some upcoming conferences .... read more
With just about everyone using a smart phone, it is important for mobile apps to have beautifully designed icons to represent the brand. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a beautiful 3D starfish icon using several applications including Photoshop, Cinema 4D, and ZBrush. In the process we will show you how to create 3D objects and then combine them with textures in Photoshop to create an amazing icon.... read more
Not too long ago, I built a handful of generators for Laravel , which ease the process of various tasks. Today, thanks to help from Gaurav Narula , we’re turning things up a notch with the release of a new Sublime Text plugin that leverages the power of Artisan and the generators from directly within your editor.... read more
It is always fun and interesting to talk about what inspires various artists and designers. Recently, Psdtuts+ Editor, Grant Friedman had the opportunity to chat with long time Psdtuts+ Author, Martin Perhiniak on Google+ about some of the artwork that they were both inspired by. In this video, the two chat about some of their favorite pieces and how they might have been... read more
Still using desktop code editors? Web integrated development environments (IDEs) are a new way to build your web projects directly in the browser, often saving development time and making collaboration... read more
The next conference I'll be at is Webstock . I leave for it in a few weeks. It's in New Zealand, about as far away from home as I can get without going into space.... read more
In the first part of this series we looked at the failings that lead to the structural elements new to HTML5; in the second part of the series we looked in detail at the consequences of those failings; in this final part we’ll look for a way forward, and draw some conclusions about the current state of play. This is not an abstract problem: people actually have to teach this stuff. The next generation of web designers and developers will be taught with HTML5 as a starting point.... read more
When Photoshop CS6 was released, many users complained about how the new Crop Tool worked. In Photoshop CS6.1, Adobe made some adjustments to the Crop Tool that they hope will alleviate some of those users’ concerns.... read more
