Windows Phone 7 Cheat Sheet for Designers

 Development, Windows Phone  No Responses »
Jun 042011
 

Nordkapp, a group of experienced designers, strategists and technologists, recently made available a downloadable Windows Phone 7 Cheat Sheet to help mobile interaction designers with designing Windows Phone 7 apps. This A3 size cheat sheet is based on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Design Guideline document(s) with only the important bits, added some other comments and highlighted the parts that might come as a surprise of existing Symbian, iOS or Android designers and developers.

Extremely useful if you’re trying to design a proper app UI for Windows Phone 7. Head down to nordkapp.fi/blog/2011/05/wp7-for-designers-cheatsheet/ to download the cheat sheet.

psdGraphics – Great Resource for Stunning PSD Backgrounds, Images, Templates

 Web Development  1 Response »
Apr 252011
 

I found this great website with a lot of images, icons, background that comes with the Adobe Photoshop PSD file for you to use and possibly learn how these stunning graphics were created. What’s more, it’s free for personal use! There are a lot of free fully editable Photoshop PSD files and high resolution stuff for webmasters and designers like abstract backgrounds, textures and patterns, PSD icons and graphics, web design elements, Photoshop text and video tutorials, Photoshop recreations, etc.

Source: psdGraphics

Adobe Kuler – Color Theme Community

 Technology  No Responses »
Apr 192011
 

Kuler is a FREE web-hosted application, to explore, create and share color themes. You can create color themes from a color wheel, a photo, or randomly from flickr and share these color themes with everyone. You can also search for color themes based on tags like water, calm, cool, fiery, angry, etc. and it will show you all the different themes that match it.

Awesome for the color geek (synonymous to the font geek) to share and grok color themes with similar like-minded people. Great site for designers to quickly grab color themes for their work, be it websites, advertisements, marketing materials, etc.

Check it out – http://kuler.adobe.com

Be a Layer Mayor – Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers

 Development, Web Development  1 Response »
Apr 042011
 

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers is a list of helpful and *subtle* suggestions to organize Photoshop Documents, making the transfer of them less painful. This set of guidelines is intended for any group of people looking to standardize web design in Photoshop.

I have worked with many web designers and I wish they had these guidelines to make my life as a developer slightly easier, instead of having myself to learn Photoshop to get what I need out of the psd file. All web designers should at least some of the guidelines, if not all.

Barcamp Singapore 4: The beginning

 Lifestyle  No Responses »
Sep 092009
 

So we’ve started our march towards Barcamp Singapore 4. Preetam Rai has done a great job securing an awesome place at the IDA office in Suntec Tower 3, 14th floor. There’s probably going to be 3 training rooms for barcamp sessions, 4 meeting rooms for brainstorming and discussions,  and 1 lobby for food and networking. This is by far the most awesome Barcamp location, and it will be the most awesome Barcamp ever held in Singapore.

When: 21st November 2009
Where: IDA office at Suntec Tower 3, 14th floor.

So to all geeks, designers, social media, startups, and just anyone, go add your name as a participant to the wiki now, or even suggest a topic, at Barcamp Singapore 4 and join us in the spirit of sharing, brainstorming, discussing, and just plain old fun.