Psychology of Web Design


June 12th, 2010

Designers often don’t take the time they should to learn about how basic psychological principles can effect the experience their visitors have on the sites they build.

Psychological principles are either looked upon as unnecessary, or too complicated. But the truth is that they’re neither.

There aren’t that many concepts associated with basic design psychology, and most are relatively straight-forward and easy to learn.

They’re also mainly easy to implement, though some take a bit more care and planning than others.

Read on to learn more and please leave your feedback and comments at the end of this post.

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750+ Ultimate High Quality Free Grunge Brushes & Resources

for FREE
May 26th, 2010

This is a list of 750+ high quality Grunge brushes for Photoshop waiting for you to download them. It took me 2 days to finish this post just looking for some nice grunge brushes on the web. I hope you’ll find this post worth it.

Check this out and feel free to download them all.

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(74 Brushes)

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30+ Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes

for FREE!
May 26th, 2010

Although most designers and photoshop users commonly use brushes, using custom Photoshop shapes can save a lot of time too.

This post is a showcase of 30+ Useful Custom Photoshop Shape Set. These custom shapes are free to use.

Custom Shape Mix

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3D Fruit Bowl

how to create a 3d bowl of fruit
March 29th, 2010

3d Bowl of Fruit

3d Bowl of Fruit

This tutorial shows you how to create a realistic 3D fruit bowl illustration with the new Adobe Illustrator CS2 feature: 3D Revolve Effect.

Reqired: Illustrator CS2 +

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Still Using Internet Explorer 6?

Really? why?
March 6th, 2010

Internet Explorer 6 is a relic, but many corporations continue to cling to it. Nonetheless, it’s surprising to discover that Intel–Microsoft’s long-time partner–is still using the ancient browser. ( yes, I’m going to whine and complain about this )

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I Twitter, now please rob me


February 18th, 2010

You don’t have to be a Twitter Psychic to know when people are away from home, you can use the Please Rob Me website instead.

A group by the name of Forthehack has launched a website called Please Rob Me which serves to expose the security risk of location-aware online services such asTwitter and Foursquare.

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Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas


February 16th, 2010


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Why You Need To Fail

Unlocking Your Full Potential
February 9th, 2010

success-vs-failure

drag to share

“Peter, I’d like you to stay for a minute after class.” Calvin teaches my favorite body conditioning class at the gym.

“What’d I do?” I asked him.

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