All design is situated—carried out from an embedded position. Design involves many participants and encompasses a range of interactions and interdependencies among designers, designs, design methods, and users. Design is also multidisciplinary, extending beyond the traditional design professions into such domains as health, culture, education, and transportation. This book presents eighteen situated design methods, offering cases and analyses of projects that range from designing interactive installations, urban spaces, and environmental systems to understanding customer experiences.
Each chapter presents a different method, combining theoretical, methodological, and empirical discussions with accounts of actual experiences. The book describes methods for defining and organizing a design project, organizing collaborative processes, creating aesthetic experiences, and incorporating sustainability into processes and projects. The diverse and multidisciplinary methods presented include a problem- and project-based approach to design studies; a “Wheel of Rituals” intended to promote creativity; a pragmatist method for situated experience design that derives from empirical studies of film production and performance design; and ways to transfer design methods in a situated manner. The book will be an important resource for researchers, students, and practitioners of interdisciplinary design.

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Пожалуй, самый увлекательный способ получить навыки создания сайтов. У нас можно получить level-up и открыть в себе способности веб-дизайнера, верстальщика или веб-программиста, наработать портфолио, пройти тестирование и найти работу

As one of the core design principles, typography can really make or break a website design. Despite recent advances in web type technology we’re still fairly limited when it comes to creative typography layouts, meaning image replacement techniques are still common, but these days we have massive choice when it comes to selecting fonts for our designs. This post showcases 40 website designs that all feature beautiful typography in a creative way, this might be through elegant typographic layouts or perfectly typeset combinations of styles to create visually pleasing pages.

Тема сегодняшней подборки о веб-дизайне — монохромные сайты. Мы собрали интересные работы как в черно-белых тонах, так и в других цветовых сочетаниях. Объединяет примеры одно — количество используемых цветов при разработке дизайна весьма ограничено. Такой вариант создания палитры выглядит проще, однако не теряют ли сайты от такой «скупости» дизайнера на цвета?

A collection of 850 free CSS and HTML5 site templates, designed & built by Cherry + AJ and released under the Creative Commons.

Drawing with divs and other native HTML elements is possible, but a bit clunky and subject to the usual inconsistencies across different browsers. Using SVG is more reliable, visually consistent, and faster.

Vector drawing software like Illustrator can be used to generate SVG files, but we need to learn how to generate them with code.

Background images in HTML email have long been acknowledged as inconsistent in their rendering across email clients. For this reason, I've avoided them within our our own emails, as well as those we offer to our customers. However, this past year has witnessed a flood of premium, designer templates from our competitors that liberally use background images. Moreover, these competitors claim to have tested them in all major email clients. So, I began to wonder. Had support for background images improved? Had I missed an announcement for a reliable solution or hack? These questions persuaded my own little investigation into the current state of background image support in HTML emails.

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Send your HTML to any email address for design testing and debugging

Simply put, CSSgram is a library for editing your images with Instagram-like filters directly in CSS. What we're doing here is adding filters to the images as well as applying color and/or gradient overlays via various blending techniques to mimic these effects. This means less manual image processing and more fun filter effects on the web!

The British Film Institute presents the best global cinema on-demand:
From classic and contemporary films to the best of the BFI National Archive.

Речь пойдёт о составлении и оформлении резюме, по зарубежным стандартам. Для упрощения будем говорить, что вы – IT-специалист, и собираетесь искать работу в США.

Styling CSS without losing your sanity

Allaboutux.org provides information about user experience (UX). The information on this site is collected from the UX community and is created and maintained by volunteers.

The theories below are grouped into clusters covering similar topics. Note that you may find theories in more than one place. The clusters correspond with the topics used in the Communication Studies at the University of Twente.

With SPSS predictive analytics software, you can predict with confidence what will happen next so that you can make smarter decisions, solve problems and improve outcomes.

Cross device interaction patterns library by TLU IDLab

Rextester - some online tools for anyone who finds them useful. It was started as online .net regex tester.