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Posts tagged with design

Copywriting is interface design

Jul 5th 2015

Thomas Byttebier wrote down some of his thoughts on copywriting.

... copywriting is an often overlooked aspect of UI design. That’s a serious shortcoming, because if you come to think of it: most of an app’s user interface simply is text. Hide the icons, imagery or colors and every app or web site is basically just letters and numbers. There may be some data in there, a significant part of it is UI. It would be stupid not to take excellent care of it.

http://thomasbyttebier.be/blog/copywriting-is-interface-design

Be sure to also check out his posts on icons and typography.

Trees vs facets vs tags

Feb 9th 2015

... any CMS managing any sizeable amount of data needs to support trees. Anything else will lead to an unmanageable mess. However, systems with smaller sets of content, especially with a smaller group of authors, can get away with tagging as well. Facetting only really works well with a system that stores content that is highly structured at least on a per node type basis.

http://www.sitepoint.com/cms-content-organization-structures-trees-vs-facets-vs-tags/

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Text input effects

Jan 14th 2015

A nice collection of input field animations:

http://tympanus.net/Development/TextInputEffects/

A font for clients who do not understand latin

Jan 5th 2015

BLOKK is a font for quick mock-ups and wireframing for clients who do not understand latin.

http://blokkfont.com/

Easily create custom font icons

Dec 5th 2014

Fontastic is a service for creating custom font icons.

http://fontastic.me

They offer hosting of the icons as well so you can manage them in one place.

http://fontastic.ghost.io/your-icons-in-the-cloud