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A Basic Guide To Design for Mobile Experience
Mobile phone usage has significantly increased all over the world and anyone who is a graphic or web designer should consider how to design websites to suit mobile users. Many mobile users now access the Internet on their mobile devices. There are about 5 billion phones in the world. Out of this, 1.08 billion are smart phones.
Android has the highest market share with 46.9%, while iPhone follows with a market share of 28.7%. Nine out of ten smart phone users use their phone on a daily basis and the most popular smart phone activity is texting, followed by Internet browsing and playing games. This presents a new opportunity for graphic designers and website builders.
Businesses are also seeing the wisdom in building mobile websites. The need to learn how to build websites for the mobile experience therefore becomes an imperative for any forward thinking designer.
There are resources available over the web that offer basic instructions for designing websites that are compatible with mobile devices. These can be helpful in getting you started. But here are some basic principles to consider when designing websites for a great mobile experience.
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Web Layout Tags Vector Pack
Many designers prefer to use vector pack resources in their artwork because they are easy to edit and modify as vector based graphics. Layout tags are one of these commonly used packs since designers can use them in web designs, printing materials and application user interfaces.
Today’s vector pack includes various tag designs that can be opened in vector applications, such as Adobe Illustrator. You can easily edit, modify and change their color style. You can also paste them as a smart objects and use them in Photoshop designs.
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Creative and Contemporary Bookshelf Designs
A bookshelf is a piece of furniture that is commonly used in our homes, offices, schools and companies. Successful bookshelf designs should be creative and usable. The creativity extends beyond the design itself, for example it can be about the materials used in designing the bookshelf. The type and the style of the material can guide the design to build a successful bookshelf idea. For example, wood materials can inspire the design to be wood-like with beautiful warm brown colors.
The other factor in the product design for bookshelves is usability. A creative design should be user-friendly that customers can use to easily store and find their books. If the design of a bookshelf is creative but not usable, no one will be interested in buying or using it. The following showcase of Creative and Contemporary Bookshelf Designs tries to give useful examples that show a successful combination of creativity and usability.
You can also use these examples to get inspired and learn new creative ways of decorating your home or workspace. Please feel free to add your comments and tell us which designs do you like the most.
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How to Define Your Target Market in Design Projects
Learning how to define your target market in design projects will help you to streamline your marketing efforts. The process requires discipline and focus, and is the key to preventing waste of time and money on a project.
Having a target market gives even small businesses the opportunity to effectively compete with larger companies. Targeting everyone is a waste of money, resources and time. Defining your target market does not mean that you exclude people who would likely not be interested in your product.
What it entails, is the use of your advertising dollars and brand promotion ventures to capture the attention and interest of those who are definitely interested in what you have to offer. Marketing your product to a specific audience is a more affordable and effective method of reaching potential clientele and generating business.
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15 Creative iPhone Cases
Apple iPhone is one of the most popular smart-phones on the mobile market, which is marked by its creative design and user-friendly iOS operating system. Its simple and unique design drives users to personalize their iPhone devices using different iPhone cases. Therefore, manufacturers create thousands of creative iPhone cases that help users to cover their iPhones with their own taste and style.
iPhone case designs vary from hand-made cases that you can create at home with simple tools and materials to special material cases that protect your iPhone from dust and water. In today’s showcase, I would like to present 15 Creative iPhone Cases that can inspire you with new case ideas, or you can just click the links to buy any of the following iPhone cases and use them to personalize your device.
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Tips to Design for Visually Impaired Users
Web designers are usually faced with the challenge of finding workable tips to design for visually impaired web surfers. As web designers, we strive to create and design web interfaces that are user friendly, but many times there is a minority group for whom we fail to make adequate preparations.
The visually impaired are often not given full consideration when web interfaces are designed. Yet, this small percentage of the population needs to access the web just as the much the larger visually-able populace.
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40+ Breathtaking Tilt-Shifting Photographs
At the first look on the below images, you would think it is a Photoshop effect or a trick that creates this miniature photo effects. However these images were only created using a digital camera. The tilt-shift effect displays the photographs with clear focus of the main object in the image and displays the rest of the images as minimized and blurred. Hence, the effect requires a special tilt-shift camera lens.
The tilt-shift photos name comes from the ability of the tilt-shift lens to rotate horizontally with the image plane, which is known as tilt, and vertically on the image plane which is known as shifting. The tilt rotation is responsible for creating a sharp focus on a specific object in the image and the shifting adjusts the object’s position in the photo.
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Banner and Landing Page Design Services by RightBanners
Elegant and eye-catching banner ads are a great solution to attract customers to your website. One of the fastest and most professional services to help you efficiently advertise your business is RightBanners.com.
5 Twitter Tools for Better Social Networking
Twitter is considered one of the most powerful tools to build your personal brand. The open, democratic structure of Twitter makes it possible for anyone to have as much of an impact as a celebrity who has all kinds of marketing muscle behind them.
However, it’s easily possible to optimize and increase the Twitter impact you have, with the help of a few simple-to-use tools.
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How to Do Market Research for Your Project
Every wise company makes the move of conducting market research for their products and/or services so as to better position themselves to take advantage of the market.
The tips and tools that the company employs as a part of their marketing research, and how they administer these tools is what will determine the effectiveness of the marketing campaign. Conducting an effective research will give a better idea of the project’s feasibility.
Conducting marketing research is a huge investment that requires time and money, and must be applied properly if it is to yield results that will improve the business or give it a good start.
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5 Best WordPress Security Plugins
Irrespective of how small or big your website is, it is important that security plugins should be installed for your website. They may not be enough to provide the ultimate security for your website, but they may provide a strong and secure front line.
Security plugins are definitely required for all those sites that make use of the credit card payment system. Although WordPress is by itself pretty secure, yet, there are several additional plugins that can be used to strongly protect your WordPress website from any kind of hack attacks.
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