I came across this great poster called “The State of the Internet 2009″. It tells a pretty cool story and it’s from a place called FOCUS.COM. What I really like about it — along with it’s internet information, is the simple and very effective graphic design! There is beauty in simplicity when it comes to design.
This will change the way you design websites. I posted a few articles a few months back — on all the different ways you can design with much more than the standard web fonts. Typekit was one of the services providing these design options. Now Typekit and WordPress have come together.
Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, and accessible.
Customize your WordPress blog with Typekit fonts.
They have just rolled out a way to easily use fonts on the world’s largest blogging platform. With Typekit and WordPress working together, customizing and designing with the look of the nearly 10 million websites they host, now takes just a few clicks.
Log into your WordPress dashboard and click on Appearance in the left-hand navbar. There, you’ll find “Typekit Fonts” with a place to add your Kit ID (available under “Embed Code” in the Typekit Editor). That’s it — you’re ready to go. You can choose fonts from our rapidly growing library to add them to any of the WordPress themes to give your web design a distinct look.
And of course, Typekit works with WordPress web designed sites that you host yourself.
The WordPress developer community has begun to release plugins for web designers and web developers from Typekit.
Check out the options over at the plugin directory.
User experience design (which incorporates IA and IxD) is a fundamental part of web design/web development, however often overlooked by traditional print designers and art directors. To create an effective website the principles and strategies of IA and IxD really need to be employed.
There seems to be some confusion about what these two roles are so we figures we would define and compare each of them here. IA’s and IxD’s and user experience professionals should all be living in the same space and their jobs really overlap, however some larger web site design requires some with special skills and know-how. If your saying “what the heck is he talking about, hold on… I’ll explain everything”
So what is IA
IA goes all into taxonomy design and database architecture. Changes occur when an IA adjusts categories and navigation structure. IA is about distributing content according their relevant category. Simplification of content and information it for website visitors to find what they are looking for more easily.
And what about IxD
IxD exists in the interaction experience itself, and is more likely to apply psychology and deeper cognitive principles to create a highly usable interface. They look at some of the same things IAs do (information flow, usability, etc.), but they’re the ultimate user experience – and so they excel at things like usability, content strategy, visual impact. Most UX professionals probably do both – among other things. So IxD deals a bit more with user experience, and IA is a fundamental part of this experience, let’s say the building blocks and IxD’s know what technology to use and where to render the best user experience, which is sort of the “magic” in a site that makes all the difference. but first you gotta start with good IA and killer web design!
Every web designer and web development team craves great icons, sometimes we create our own and sometimes we take inspiration from the many icon source websites out there on the web… we found this one to beexceptionally helpful with many free resources
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