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How to convey requirements with a designer?
I am an app developer. Most of the time I will build the apps' user interface by myself, thus resulting in functional but not appealing apps :-(
Like this -> one (link to AppStore)
For a few ...
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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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How can I get more efficient at designing tables for web in Photoshop?
It takes me too much time (IMO) to design tables in Photoshop. I need to move rows, columns and stuff easily. I'd like to be able to get through this faster.
I've tried InDesign and Illustrator and ...
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How to not make my website have a “1990's” look
I recently launched a comics website, www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com, which I created from scratch. I created my own design because I wanted to keep it unique, and used no templates.
Unfortunately, ...
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Branding a company that has no public identity
Ok, that title might seem a little strange, but I will try to explain. And I will say, I do know this is more of a discussion type question, and not a technical question. Hopefully I wont get ...
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Repeat client is suddenly demanding intellectual property rights!
A fairly sizable client whom I've done a few jobs for over the past several years has recently contacted me for a new job. We have never had a contract for any of the work I've done for them (I'm a ...
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Web design components workable on paper [closed]
What are the main components of web design that can be sketched on paper? I refer to the visuals of a design that could be developed by sketches and drawings. Like a sketch of a Web-page view in ...
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Practices for making visual ideas into real designs
As far as I can see, creating graphic design goes through two main steps.
Coming with up an idea.
Turning the idea into a real design.
I find that I am stuck in the first step.
I am new to ...
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How to make a logo where a letter is made of particles of varying sizes?
How can I make a logo in Adobe Illustrator like the AntiParticle logo below, from http://www.graphicdesigninspiration.net/2012/08/15/70-awesome-logo-designs-for-your-inspiration/?
It is a large ...
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What are the most common album layouts besides the classical one?
When one try to make/publish a photo album the most common layout is the one with one photo per page.
What other layouts are proven to be successful, especially considering that we intent to print on ...
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Which tools for digital art & paintings
i like digital art and paintings. I want to create my own. Which software/tools i need to accomplish?
Below are the examples:
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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 to recreate this background in photoshop for use in a mobile app? [duplicate]
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How do so many app menus get that finished textured look?
I'm still a beginner, but I really like this texture and have been trying for hours to recreate it.
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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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how to reduce the size of my graphic design cv?
I designed my cv on Photoshop and then I did two things but still I have a problem:
I have two pages of my CV, I saved them as JPEG with save form web and then I combined them in a PDF in Acrobat ...
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Which are the most prominent creative thinking techniques/methodologies?
I know SCAMPER & Ideo cards, but I'm curious if there are any other important techniques/methodologies one must not miss. I'm particularly interested in those that you would resort to use for a ...
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How do I combine bold, italic and regular versions of a typeface so they are grouped together in application font selection menus?
In Fontographer 5, I have made more versions of the same typeface (regular, italic and bold), but they are separate files.
How can I make them be one unified file and that when writing in a program ...
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How to select colours that match each other?
Looking at the colours in this logo, it is clear that the colours match each other.
How is an orange and purple found that matches the same colour scheme?
I suppose the colour in the 'R' is yellow?
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design inspiration collection of horizontal website layouts?
Who knows a good resources to get some fresh design inspirations for horizontal layouts? Searching google gives some blogposts with relative bad quality designs.
I look for fresh, inspiring layouts ...
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businescard disguised as a real iphone, anoyone knows a good mockup / sample?
I try to create a businesscard like below. I searched for the internet for an template to no avail. So playing now around with Illustrator but im not that of a design guru. Does anyone know if below ...
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What are the most important qualities to look for when hiring a great mobile UI designer for a consumer-facing Internet startup?
I'm looking for an experienced mobile UI designer to lead the vision and design for our iphone and android applications. What characteristics, experience or requirements would a mid-to-senior level ...
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How to improve this design?
How can I improve this design? I'm kinda new to this and I've just felt a bit demotivated because I've been dealing with a difficult person.
I intend to make the color of the copyright notice darker ...
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How to change a google map into something similar to the poster background?
How do I change a google map into something similar to the map in the 1st poster?
How do I change it to blue and also include shadows?
Please help!
Regards,
sammydude
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London Olympics Ticket Design - How to?
I'm in the process of designing a program invite and thought I could experiment something similar to the London Olympics ticket.
I am more interested in knowing how I can go about designing the blue ...
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what tools to use for beginner
Could some experienced graphic designer suggest what tools to use- what software, to do this- make a picture of some money bills, which are curved and floating around randomly, with some background ...
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decorative borders for ebook / website use with fantasy theme
How would I create a border with a pattern, be it some celtic knots or gem like pieces, that could be used as a border in websites or ebooks?
I'd like to simulate materials like gems, gold/silver, ...
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Which design should I choose? [closed]
I'm trying to choose between two designs for a military allowance calculator I'm developing. You can view my two choices here: http://imgur.com/a/qRmDX
My main question involves the second design: Do ...
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Improved splash screen design
The splash screen at the moment for my application is far from catching, but I'm no graphic designer and apart from the fact it looks bland and boring, I can't really work out what I need to do in ...
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Is there a standard size(width) for email newsletter design or something like a christmas e-card?
I have to design this e-mail newsletters.
Some with just simple holiday cards and some more complex with offers and other stuff(images, text content etc. etc...)
I am wondering if there is a safe ...
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Using stock images for mock ups
When making a design (as a freelancer), how do I handle stock images?
Do you buy the stock image(s)? Or do you find an image via Google or whatever and later replace it with a similar stock image?
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Unique icon design for a university map application? [closed]
Most university map apps on Google's Play store seem to just use their university's logo or a generic map icon. Neither way seems ideal, but I'm unable to come up with a better way myself.
How do I ...
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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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Why is there so much emphasis on the text of a logo and not the catchyness of the logo itself?
Ok, so I have been looking at a lot of logos recently, all done by graphic designers. And in the majority of them, the only thing they have is a name or some "basic" text. I thought the idea behind a ...
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Photo Manipulation and texture… like instagram
Does anyone have any recommendations, links, or tutorials on how to create a similar effect to this using a normal photo?
More: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Nike-60-Surfcali/1242523
My goal is ...
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How should I add a realistic shadow to this?
I'm working on a mockup of a jQuery slider which can be found here.
Now, I'm not the best graphic designer by any stretch of the imagination, and I can't seem to be able to get a realistic looking ...
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Keep minium distance of 1px when resizing logo
I am currently doing some work for one of my sites, for which among other things I am designing a logo. The logo partly consists of a few squares, which are aligned directly next to each other and ...
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What does “PDF-compatible glyph names” mean?
In Fontographer 5, when I want to generate font files, it asks me do I want to "Keep glyph names as they are" or make glyph names "PDF-compatible".
What does the "PDF-compatible glyph name" mean ...
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Who is in charge of creating fake logos and products for movies/games, and what are good examples of them?
Who is responsible for creating such products? Are they usually done by the props team? Or are there companies that specialise in them?
Here are a couple of examples. It's usually easier to find ...
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“Cutout” effect in Fontographer 5
When I paste a thinner version of a letter on a bolder one, I get this cutout effect inside it, somewhat similar to this:
(please note that this is not my image, not my font and that I do not claim ...
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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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Site registration [closed]
What are some good (very engaging) examples of a site registration? Not just the typical form fill out. But with some bells and whistles. ie: Choose your favorite exercise activity by dragging and ...
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What Graphic Design degree has more value for advancing the field?
There seems to be emerging two schools of "Graphic Design" which I use very loosely in the world today.
The traditional school of Graphic Design is about "Art". Creating, exhibiting, and the history ...
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Online Program in Graphic Design [closed]
I'm interested in possibly studying graphic design while I work full-time. I already have a BA in Business and a MS in Software Engineering, but have not taken any art or design courses because the ...
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What to avoid when using negative shapes / text for logos expected to be placed on a glass door
I'm not a designer (as is probably obvious from the vague question), but I'm being asked to design the signage that will go on the front of our offices. Our logo is deliberately simple, blocky white ...
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Is there a font face in which all glyphs are identical?
As strange as it seems, I am looking for a font in which all characters look exactly the same.
The goal is to obfuscate the text of passwords generated on http://enlargeyourpassword.com to the casual ...
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iPhone iPad iPod packaging texture
I hope that this is the correct forum to be asking this question. I am trying to figure out what verbiage one would use to describe the packaging that Apple uses for many of its products. Specifically ...
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The best software for electronic device design (phones, etc.) [closed]
I am looking for the best CAD software to design my products electronically, I know of autodesk and solidworks, but is there anything else, maybe open-source? I am a student at MIT, I hope companies ...
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Games Design & Illustration - Starting Off
So I primarily have a background in Interface Design and wish to expand my skill set into illustration and game design.
I've recently armed myself with a Bamboo tablet and want to get serious about ...
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Creating a font for a new language
Suppose somebody develops a new language, with totally new characters.
And a font for the same has to be created.
How does one do that?
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Which design system is used?
Which design system is used here:
http://perfectionalism.tumblr.com/post/22604543313
I'm trying to learn about the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci, so curious about what is used here.
