Fifty milliseconds. That’s how quickly visitors can form strong, long-lasting impressions about your news or information website. But they aren’t sizing up the quality of your content or the sophistication of your code. They’re making nearly instantaneous, mostly subconscious judgments about how your work has been designed.
Those assessments can lead to very conscious — and consequential — conclusions about the merits of your page, product or platform. Bad graphic design can damage perceptions about your credibility. It can make your content harder to understand and render your work less appealing.

Generate a base64 encoded Data URI straight from the Finder.
An Automator workflow which adds an item to the ‘Services’ contextual menu. It generates the Data URI for a file and copies it to the pasteboard.

We’ve all seen margin: 0 auto; for horizontal centering, but margin: auto; has refused to work for vertical centering… until now!

The Essentials Every Designer Needs to Know About How Users Navigate Through Large Web Sites

Visualization, analysis, interactive maps and real-time graphics from Huffington Post

FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better — mainly through data visualization.

We looked through the web to see what are the most recent examples of Interactive Infographics and this is a list of 10 Wonderful Examples of Interactive Infographics.

That’s why we have put together a selection of tools that we use the most and that we enjoy working with. We called it selection.datavisualization.ch. It includes libraries for plotting data on maps, frameworks for creating charts, graphs and diagrams and tools to simplify the handling of data. Even if you’re not into programming, you’ll find applications that can be used without writing one single line of code. We will keep this list as a living repository and add / remove things as technology develops. We hope this will help you find the best tool for your next job.

Datavisualization.ch is the premier news and knowledge resource for data visualization and infographics.

Как правильно расположить и настроить монитор

There's always been a certain degree of confusion as to the definition of "orphans", "widows" and "runts" in typography. Runts are occasionally referred to as orphans, which does not help matters. And they are sometimes (mistakenly) called widows, too.

This page falls somewhere between a tool and an essay. It sets out to explore how the intertwined typographic concepts of scale and rhythm can be encouraged to shake a leg on web pages. Drag the colored boxes along the scale to throw these words anew. For the most part, this text is just a libretto for the performance you can play upon it.

It's quicker to use than a spreadsheet, and smarter and clearer than a traditional calculator. Use Soulver to play around with numbers, do "back of the envelope" quick calculations, and solve day-to-day problems.

Newsweek delivers a powerful combination of news, culture and ideas, from a fresh point of view - bold, nimble and insightful. Offering award-winning reporting and commentary from some of the top writers in the world, Newsweek is the perfect tool for the voracious consumer of information.

Daily coverage of New York's restaurants, nightlife, shopping, fashion, politics, and culture. NYMag.com is the online counterpart to New York Magazine.

Google’s brand is shaped in many ways; one of which is through maintaining the visual coherence of our visual assets.
In January 2012, expanding on the new iconography style started by Creative Lab, we began creating this solid, yet flexible, set of guidelines that have been helping Google’s designers and vendors to produce high quality work that helps strengthen Google’s identity.

A Guide to Discernible Web Design in Photoshop

The $99 Mobile App for Events.
And It Even Powers Your Website.

Cinema news and reviews (by Pitchfork)

Notre site web d’archives de la presse d’émigration s’est donné la mission de rendre accessible, pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'histoire russe, une partie des magazines et journaux rares publiés à l'étranger dans la période 1920 – 1939.