Questions about conventions of graphic design. Sometimes theoretical, sometimes tangible, sometimes metaphysical.
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How to balance a tab bar with an even number of elements, one of them being a call-to-action?
I have to design a 4 item iOS tab bar. One of the items is a call-to-action button for creating content. Typically, apps have 5 items, so it is natural to place the call-to-action in the middle for ...
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How do you call “Charte Graphique” in English?
This is not really a translation question - more of a designer vocabulary.
How do you call the set of visuals, logos, designs, colors, fonts... that make a whole design project?
In French we would ...
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What type of information should a logo display, or what makes a great logo?
For example, for a tech company, should one be able to look at a logo and immediately see 'tech company', or whatever niche that company may provide\service? Also, is the color scheme important as ...
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Dark Theme vs Light Theme in Web Applications
I am designing a theme for our web application & I really like the new Adobe Photoshop layout (which is dark, though not black), so I took the cue & created my own dark layout. However, our ...
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What does an artist who wants to learn graphic design need to know?
There's a (very popular) question that discusses tips and resources for learning graphic design already, but it's from the perspective of programmers who want to get in the game.
I have a friend of ...
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How do I decide how many columns to use in my grid?
I'm trying to create a UI design for my 1024x768 screen.
I know there's a grid system out there. I've read about the benefits, etc. I understand, I think from a fundamental level, why I need to use ...
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Any tips to design for a 1024 resolution? (especially with fonts and font sizes)
In terms of tips, are there any good resources or things to keep in mind with things like font and typography? Any "ideal" or happy medium sizes to keep in mind?
I'm working on a project where the ...
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What are some basic guidelines to make a website look nice?
I'm building a website for a client. I look at it and it just doesn't look cool. It gets the job done, which all of the websites I've built get the job done. But I don't think I've ever built anything ...
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How can I use design to teach history to 8th graders?
I want to use graphic design and website design to teach history to 8th graders, so kids can express what they have learned about history and use their knowledge to teach others. I also want to use ...
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How much effort should I put in to optimizing (cutting up) images for the web?
I often get designs from our artists which contain large complicated images that can be turned into a background-color, some tiling, and overlaid smaller images. The problem is, doing this often takes ...
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How can graphic design be more accessible for people with disabilities?
I've noticed that, when talking about accessibility, guidelines and articles often refer to web design, but only in rare occasions I've seen graphic design (print in particular) being targeted as ...
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Is tracing or drawing using a grid legitimate in photoshop
I use photoshop for web design, though I would really like to try and create faces with it. Though I can not draw. I saw a video on youtube where they traced over a photograph with a pen tool. and ...
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What to change on this webpage, to look more elegant [closed]
I'm not ui ux engineer. I just want to hear your opinion/help on where would you (designers) put this grey box or app links, what is your opinion about colors?
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Seeking advice to improve the design of my minimalist calculator
A while ago, I built a count down timer app based on a designer's free giveaway. It turns out users like it and it is even mentioned on beautifulpixels.
This time I'm building a calculator named ...
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How would I know how good of a designer I am?
To me my designs looks good, at least for some months.
But to others not so much.
I want to go freelancing but I don't want to be a bad designer.
So how do I find out if my logo/website/business ...
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What subtle techniques can be used to make design look better overall? [closed]
I am have been spending a good amount of my time to learn how to do design. My friend is a designer and helps out when he can he often comes around and shows me tricks that make things like text and ...
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How do so many app menus get that finished textured look?
I don't know how to describe it but how do you create that nice textured look with css?
Seen in the background:
Also seen a bit on the left hand dark navigation of:
Thanks for your help
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Working with alignment and balance
I know this is all subjective, but I'm hoping there are general principles here that will mean this is a valid question.
Take a look at the layout below. In the past (before I tried to learn about ...
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Adobe Illustrator vs Adobe Indesign for brochures
You may know me (not that I am worth knowing) from my first question. I am a noob in web design, graphic desgin, font theroy, color theory, guess all of the mixes that are crucial. My expertise ...
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How can a design be balanced and yet have a focal point?
The concept of a focal point seems to be a fundamental one in web design, yet doesn't a focal point mean a page cannot be balanced?
Surely by definition a focal point means that the page's 'weight' ...
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Concept design suggestions and feedback wanted for pricing table [closed]
Im totally stuck on designing a pricing table for my web app, you have 2 sorts of prices "free", "pro" the problem is I have this horizontal retangle running in the page and this seems to not match ...
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Methods for using the Golden Ratio in fluid application UI design?
I have seen a bit about leveraging the Golden Ratio in traditional web design applications, however I've not found much in the way of thoughts on utilizing it within fluid desktop application design. ...
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Standards when creating Icons
I'm in the process of creating some icons for an application, and find myself coming up with the same question over and over again. Are there any guidelines for how thick the lines should be in an ...
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How to create a PowerPoint slide template that enforces consistency across users within a group?
I have been asked to come up with a PowerPoint slide template for use by multiple speakers from a single group.
The key element that was requested is a footer. The footer should have some unifying ...
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how to add one smart object in multiple files in photoshop?
I know I can do multiple iterations of the same Smart Object within the SAME document and have it change all instances, but what about Smart Objects placed across DIFFERENT documents? That would be ...
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Theorical Colors ranges - Color Theory
I'm looking for specific ranges of colors here.
I want the range (in Hexa or RGB) for warm colors and cool colors, active and passive colors for exemple:
Warm color from #DD6421 to #FF0000 (random ...
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Should the F-Pattern be considered in all designs?
The F-Shaped pattern is a pattern found in an eye-tracking study as the primary areas people glance over when reading a website.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html
Is this something ...
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What is a good question to ask a designer in the context of an interview for a website? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What kind of Interview Questions should one expect at their first design job interview?
I am a designer, interviewing other inspiring designers, for a new website!
I ...
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Possible fonts for tabs in technical site heading hierarchy [closed]
As we sort of came to accept as an axiom - the heading fonts for any document should be arranged in an hierarchy, and the hierarchy font choices should make sense and match.
I have a design that ...
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Graphic design/color compositions for waveform presentation
I have a dashboard of data, on which one of most important elements is a waveform of medical data (a real-time stream, in most cases it would be ECG waveform).
I am looking for a way to present this ...
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Designing and prototyping for iPad
I have to do some prototyping for an iPad app, and just realized why I was having so much trouble: this is an iPad app. I am used to design website pages/templates, computer interfaces, etc.. I have ...
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design standards for html5 applications for mobile phones
When designing an HTML5 UI for a mobile html application (non native) that is expected to run on Iphone, Android and possibly more platforms,
Will you design it based on Iphone standards? Android ...
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Beginner Web Designer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tips and sources for beginning designers
For some time now I have been strugling with my inability to create my own web designs. I am a pretty decent coder but I always ...
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Should I place the border above or below header to separate sections?
If the content is split into several sections, and each section has a header, should I put border below or above the header?
The “border below” approach seems prevalent (see Google, Wikipedia) but ...
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Designing in Black & White
I have to design flyers for someone, which will be printed in black and white (low budget thing). My problem is, I am used to design with colors, to use colors to direct the focus, to emphasize ...
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Feedback on my Company's Logo? [closed]
I just started my first high school graphic design class a couple months ago, and now I'm using Illustrator to make a logo for my software company.
Info on my company:
I develop applications for ...
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Meaning of logos for companies/organisations
I have been wondering , while designing a logo for an organisation/company what all should be taken into consideration and what all tools should be used.
For e.g can you tell me the reason behind the ...
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What is the best resolution to work at for Android devices?
I am trying to design an app for Android devices, but they come in all sizes and stuff... with different resolutions and its a bit confusing. What is the best way to do it?
Work at the biggest ...
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Can you convert a neon RGB color to CMYK for printing?
I have a logo that was done with RGB colors, now I have to work with this logo to do something for printing purpuses, the problem is that in the RGB version of the logo I have a shade of green I ...
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Certificate design
I have to design some certificates, something that kinda looks like this, only better
I have no clue... were to start?
Two script fonts on the same design seems a bit too much, but I am trying to ...
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How to get Clients to stop Micro-Managing Design?
We keep having meetings about the design, the layout hasn't changed it's just nitpicking about colors and textures etc. and nobody has any actually constructive criticism. Nothings really changing, ...
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Is graphic designing (web pages) mostly faux, unreal, unscalable and somewhat based on illusion?
Is design mostly faux, unreal, partly based on illusion which combines different elements and combines into one beautiful piece, which is not scalable but give a nice look to the eye. Consider these ...
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Are there some standard sizes when it comes to square page layouts?
I am designing this luxury product catalogue and I was thinking to make the pages square so it would somehow be a little more unique and stuff...
The way I have it set up now is 8in x 8in(about 20cm ...
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Is there something like smashing magazine.com for the Print Industry?
I know the print industry isn't probably changing as much as the web stuff nowadays but Im just wondering were do print graphic designers get their inspiration, latest news and that kind of stuff.
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How do I choose width for a set of text fields?
A programmer myself, I find it hard to make certain seemingly simple design decisions.
Currently I'm sketching a signup form for a website, and I want to keep the design really simple.
There are ...
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Why do newspapers use multiple columns?
This might not be the right place to ask, but I was wondering why newspapers use multiple columns? Does it take up less space, or is there a visual reason?
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What makes a design professional?
Can anyone define why something might not look "professional"?
What differentiates between professional/unprofessional designs?
I have clients who have said my design does not look very ...
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What is corporate identity and what does it contain?
As question explains, I did a search on the web and didn't find a suitable answer, even in wikipedia.
Can anyone please explain it to me?
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Should in-house clients receive native files to make their own changes?
I am the in-house designer for a company that employs 8 marketing managers. These marketing managers are the ones that supply me with the lion-share of my projects.
However, more and more, the ...
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which is the most smallest character or image which can represent coding
I am designing a logo and i almost filled all space because i want to keep it very simple.
Now i want to put something in there which can represent that we do coding or atleasy signifies coding or ...
