These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 09 March 2010 through 12 March 2010:
- Stunning Real World UX Design – Patient User Interface –
- Sign Up Now! Designer | Developer Workflow Conference June 2010 – What is a workflow conference? It’s an opportunity for Web professionals to learn how to use their tools and collaborate with their teams more effectively. It’s two full days of intense real-world information from leading professionals in the business, including many Adobe Evangelists and Adobe Community Professionals. It’s tracks for designers and developers, as well as hybrid and business topics, to keep you on top of your game.
- Freelancers: Don’t forget your 2009 tax credit – self-employed workers who make less than $75,000 a year in adjusted gross income are eligible for the Making Work Pay tax credit for the 2009 tax year, a benefit of up to $400. (If you file jointly and earn less than $150,000 combined, the benefit maxes out at $800.) As an added bonus, this tax credit will be available again for the 2010 tax year.
- How to Effectively Organize your Photoshop Layers – The following tutorial outlines how to create organized, designer and developer friendly PSD files.
This is in no way the only solution, but hopefully it will encourage better practice in the web design world.
- What Type of People Want iPads? [STATS] – The numbers are certainly there for such a study — the three pages together boast almost 98,000 members. While gender pretty much averaged out across all the pages, the age range came in at under Facebook’s average with 85% of overall fans 35 or under, and nearly 50% 25 and under.
- Good Points, But I Disagree, Print Ain’t Dead Dammit – Stop Delivering Mail: Build USPS 2.0 – In a recent TechCrunch article, entrepreneur Marc Andreessen suggested that traditional media outlets “burn the boats,” meaning they should stop publishing print versions of their publications. We need to do the same thing when it comes to sending mail.
- Why Apple Wants to Kill Adobe | I Said This All 7 Years Ago – I’ve been saying for years, ever since 2003 when an Apple employee spilled to me, then an Adobe employee, that Apple had a strategy to kill Photoshop along with code and apps to work toward that goal. The first volley was the Core image effects, followed by improvements to iPhoto, then Aperture. There’s been a pro-grade image editor hiding behind the scenes at Apple since ’03. But Apple can’t release it until it’s given the market a viable alternative to all the major Adobe point products that drive more 70% of new Mac sales.
- How Can Microsoft Windows Remain Relevant? – How can Microsoft keep Windows relevant? We asked journalists, technologists, and former Microsoft employees that simple question, and got an array of answers.
- 50 Beautiful and Inspiring Drawings – Ozan Küçükusta an Illustrator Designer from Turkey, Who was born in 1977 in Ankara. He graduated from Eskisehir Anadolu University, The faculty of fine art and animation. He has creative and inspirational Drawings. You can contact with him on the web via Deviantart or see his website.
- How to Create Scotch Tape in Photoshop – Are you interesting in how to make realistic view scotch tape by using Photoshop tools? If yes, then I will teach you how to make it. I got this effect by experimenting.