We’ve already highlighted some ways that designers can learn from the movies they watch, but what about photographers? “Motion pictures” have obvious parallels to photography, and image professionals could learn a thing or two from what appears on the big screen. Careful…
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Design trends come and go, but the basics of visual design haven’t changed a bit in the past 50 years. Technology has improved exponentially, but the old principles remain in place, unaffected by decades of fleeting fads.
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Despite the emergence of powerful desktop technology tools, it still takes more than a single software suite to become a great web developer. Web developers are virtually tethered to their computers, but just like graphic designers, web devs can be surprisingly productive away from their desk or…
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If you want your videos (or your client’s) to be truly compelling, you should think twice before defaulting to a standard, drab media player. Carefully designing the context and the space around your videos can help them make a much stronger impression…
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QR codes may seem like a nascent, cutting-edge technology, but they’ve actually been around for almost 20 years. They were originally invented in the mid-1990s to track car parts during the manufacturing process, but the emergence of smartphones (and QR code scanning apps)…
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If you haven’t already been exposed to Google Goggles, then we need to get you caught up. The technology is built into the Google app available on the iPhone and Android platforms, which allows you to take a picture of an item,…
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One of the most celebrated elements of the new HTML5 specification is the ability to natively handle video playback. A simple <video> tag is “all that is needed” to get instant video support on many modern browsers — or is it? Not all browser…
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