For the inaugural entry on the new series, i’ve chosen to go with the design of AdFlavor.net. It has great choice of color schemes, subtle use of multiple textures that bleed across different areas, consistent use of colors for links and headers, good use of white space and restrained lighting effects.
From “Engineer Thinking” by Matt Legend Gemmell:
If you’ve exposed underling complexity or unnecessary choice in your software because you see those things as inevitable, it’s because your job isn’t finished. If you’re going to write GUI software for other people to use, do it properly, and treat those people like human beings instead of software engineers. If you want to expose complexity to the user and wash your hands of it, write command-line tools – or utilities that are used exclusively by other machine processes.
You can’t have it both ways. Writing GUI software is for people who strive for excellence not only in the “software” part but in the “GUI” part too.
Image by maistora
Every month this series is tracking the latest design trends and collecting the best examples of modern web designs. Here is the list for February 2010 with almost 1400 links from 44 aggregator posts:
Image by Joi
Every month this series is tracking the latest design trends and collecting the best examples of modern web designs. Here is the list for January 2010 with almost 2000 links from 57 aggregator posts:
