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The Squint Heroes

I was reading on Nick Pettit blog post yesterday about Art and the Web: Value and it inspired me to write a list on assessing a web design mock-up for myself:

1. Desaturate the colours
2. Add gaussian blur to your mock-up
3. Squint your eyes and re-assess your mock-up
4. If the visual hierarchy, navigation, main CTA are easily identified with your squinty eyes, then…
5. You Rock!

And then I did some further research today and found many design heroes are in fact true devouts of ‘The Squint Test.’ method. Another really useful tip is to take a step back to see the big picture.

Inspiration: Smokey Bones

Creative use of Parallax scrolling. Clever use of both horizontal and vertical scrolling. I heart, I heart! :D

First HTML5 Magazine?: Aside Mag

Just added the site onto my iPad’s Home Screen and I’m lovin’ it! More HTML5 Magazines, please :)

Check it out on asidemag.com

(Source: behance.net)

Inspiration: Nike Better World

Another creative use of parallax scrolling.

My only question is the intuitiveness of the navigation. I sent this link to a non-web designer friend and he initially thought it was a splash page and did not even realise it was separated in a few sections. However, once you get the idea, it becomes a really clever and engaging experience. Check it out!

Adobe CS5.5 Melbourne Roadshow 2011: What’s new?

We were given a few hours off work to attend the Adobe CS5.5 Melbourne roadshow on Thursday June 2. Four areas were covered in the session - Design, Web, Flash platform and Digital Video & Audio.

Here are some noteworthy new features on CS5.5 in Design & Web:

Photoshop

• Content aware fill
• Puppet warp

InDesign

• Enhanced eBook authoring with EPUB 3.0

Dreamweaver

• jQuery mobile
• Integration with PhoneGap

Continue reading the full post here.

Inspiration: Fashion Site

http://www.manufacturedessai.it/it/

Creative use of parallax scrolling. Although I would prefer the navigation links (Open Menu) to be expanded by default.