Some quotes about good design from a Germany designer Dieter Rams in documentary "Objectified":Good design should be innovativeGood design should make a product usefulGood design is aesthetic designGood design will make a product understandableGood design is honestGood design is unobtrusiveGood design is long-livedGood design is consistent in every detailGood design is environmentally friendlyGood design is as little design as possibleThis brings up a question -- what is the most important factor about good design, To lots of people, the most important is about simplicity, i.e,&...

From a western point view, Asian UI designs are usually quite dense and compact. People in Asia are think more in detail when they start design something. They think these designs have following characteristicsDense tightly packed textTiny low-quality imagesMore columns than you can countBright clashing colours and flashing bannersOveruse of outdated technologies like FlashWhile the Western design is much simpler. They are treating the design as a whole, so usually we will see some quite smooth designs, especially in some single page designs. Also, they like to adopt new technologies when they...

Relationship oriented website is a kind of website based on friend circle, people come to the website to share news with their friends and see what's happening around their friends, these websites include Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. While content oriented website is a kind of website based on unique content, people come to the website to find information or find answers for their questions, these websites include TechCrunch, The Verge and Medium.Most of websites on the Internet nowadays belong to either one of them. They have their own advantages and disadvantages.The obvious feature of rela...

I believe that many of us visited one or more of Microsoft's website before. We may want to know what new products Microsoft has presented, or we may be developers who want to discuss some Microsoft products on their forums. I have to say that Microsoft has presented many amazing products to the world such as Windows OS, XBox, Office etc. But for its website, I don't know about you guys, every time I visit Microsoft's websites, I wonder whether they lack of UI designers or not. Their websites are not so attractive compared to their  products.Why are Microsoft websites unattractive? The re...

Less is more is a very important design principle. It is as important as the 80:20 principle. It means that which is less complicated is often better understood and more appreciated than what is more complicated; simplicity is preferable to complexity; brevity in communication is more effective than verbosity.Next we will use an animated image to describe what is less is more.The popularity of flat design in web application design also proves the importance of less is more. Many famous companies adopt flat design in their products such as Microsoft's Windows Phone and the new Google logo.Note ...

I have decided to start playing around with the Zend Framework. I have a web host (of course) however sometimes when developing I find it is easier and faster to use a local web server, with all the bells and whistles. WAMP, LAMP (this link is ubuntu specific, but any linux distribution should have easy HowTo guide for installing the LAMP software stack), MAMP, all provide the basic environment for beginning web development, and some have nice little GUIs to help you configure and maintain your local web server.So for this tutorial I am going to show you how to add mul...

When doing web design, we often need to choose which front-end framework to use in order to provide great user experience and simplify the development. Also, compatibility problem can be solved by using front-end frameworks. Here is a list of front-end frameworks. Which one are you using? Which one do you prefer?1. Apache FlexApache Flex, is a software development kit for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. Initially developed by Macromedia and then acquired by Adobe Systems, Flex was copied to the Apache Software Found...

A logo is the simplest thing a user can remember about a product or a company. A good logo design will leave deep impression to customers. Each logo tries to convey either their product information or company vision to customers, this information may be easily understood with a glance or it contains some hidden messages which need us to figure out. Today we share some logos which contain some hidden messages.1. FedexThe arrow between E and X means Fedex will deliver the product to the right person.2. AmazonThe arrow from A to Z, it simply points from A to Z implying the wide variety of items a...