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These types if Ui designs are commonly created using Adobe Illustrator and then brought into Adobe After Effects for creating the video portion of the elements making them appear "in use". I don't know that they have a particular term or designation in regards to a theme.
They are in fact static short film clips and never truly functional UIs. Directors and ...
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As mopsyd mentioned, just stay away from high contrast between your foreground and background. High saturation colors should be used sparingly as well. They are best when used for critical action or navigation items. Despite the great scientific stats behind it, I think mopsyd's red recommendation is a bad idea: too much saturation.
Working from that ...
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When you do photography you often reflect a Softbox (a square diffuser that makes the light more even) or an umbrella (also diffusing the light but gives a round reflection). When taking pictures of shiny objects these are often placed so they reflect in the object, together with white and black sheets of papers around setup to give a good 3D feel ...
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Obviously it all depends on what these business goals are... but, there are a few principles in designing one-page call to action sites that are pretty universal and established through evidence.
Since they have a clear goal, these types of sites are comparatively easy to test, particularly, with iterative A/B testing. (half users see one design, half see ...
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I cannot speak outside of my own limited experience. I worked at a company that designed some of the GUIs for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) products. Actually, that's not quite true... we designed mock-ups used by our software. The final product was going to be shipped to the FAA, and their in-house designers were going to customize it from ...
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Just use objects
Guides are fine but I prefer lines and rectangles. I keep them isolated on their own layer for easy activation/deactivation. Smart guides will make it extra simple to snap to these objects.
I set up my basic grid unit and position it in one corner of the layout. Then I use a Transform each to tile it out to a full grid. That is, if you're ...
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On http://jquerymobile.com/resources/ there is a listing including a link to the icon author's website and the actual files can be found as a zip download on github. Even though there is a .eps file in the assets folder, the icons in the .psd file seem rasterized.
Maybe contacting the author directly would be a possiblity, if you really need the vector ...
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There are many ways to tackle this I believe and you will have to choose based on your content and your audience. There have been studies on where people look first and what different audiences expect. Which is to me one of the most important factors. Of course, functionality plays into it as well. Will there be very deep submenues? Then it is often favored ...
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Almost entirely the reflection from glass, or, shiny clear plastic. Imagine a smooth, curved physical glass/plastic button.
Sometimes, people go to town and simulate caustics and refraction as well, but usually reflection, and a gradient and optional counter reflection (like at the bottom of the first image) suggesting light from the underside therefore ...
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Anything low on the spectrum, or a tone, shade, or slightly tint of a color low on the spectrum. Red is the lowest on the spectrum, which is why it is used in darkrooms, because it is too low on the spectrum to develop film. Warmer colors tend to have longer wavelengths, and hence be lower on the visible spectrum because individual light waves hit your eye ...
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The best visual software for graphic designers to work with WPF is probably Microsoft Expression Blend, in combination with Microsoft Visual Studio.
Blend is a WYSIWYG front-end for designing XAML-based interfaces for WPF and Silverlight applications, and it's good for templates, visual states, and animation.
For working with graphics themselves, ...
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DPI is irrelevant. Ignore that. All that matters is pixel dimensions. Make sure you are making them at the dimension they will be used. Ie, if it's going to be 30px x 30px on the iPhone, make your image 30px x 30px. For retina, you'll want to make a second version at 60px x 60px.
PNG files are fine. But use whatever makes sense for your particular needs.
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Approach this from the other direction. When you have both monitors up, take the time to set up your palettes so that they're perfect on the laptop screen, and save that as Laptop Workspace. Then when you switch to just the laptop, load that workspace, so you haven't lost any of your personal settings but you can see all the palettes.
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first one seems fiction but something like this is already made by yose
here
Second one seems real to me, made with rainmeter just grab some skins and make your own.
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Ctrl/CMD 3 using the standard keyboard and not the keypad most certainly does work under normal conditions. It sounds to me like there is another operation on your computer that is taking precedence. If you're on OSX then you can investigate the keyboard shortcuts quite easily in the System preferences keyboard panel. If you're using Windows (which it sounds ...
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The best way to do this is to dock the panels to the side of the screen.
Drag the panel group title bar towards the right or left edge of the screen.
As you approach the edge, slow down and wait for the vertical snap guide (my own term) to appear.
Drop the panel gruop.
The panel group is now docked, and will resize automatically to fit vertically.
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