Web Design Application
Santa Maria: We should have native tools to do our jobs, a real web design application; http://j.mp/cpGqbU (via @rivva)
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Contact Forms
Reminder: Your contact form should only ask for the information you absolutely need to know; http://j.mp/cQeNh7
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Gerrit Eicker
Contact Form Examples:
– Webdesigner Depot: Beautiful Contact Forms for your Inspiration
– Smashing Magazine: Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas
– Noupe: Beautiful Forms – Design, Style, and make it work with PHP and AJAX
– Inspect Element: Superb Examples of Form Design
– TutZone: 24 Stunning Contact Form-Page DesignsContact Form Usability:
– UX Booth: Creating a Usable Contact Form
– A List Apart: Sensible Forms – A Form Usability Checklist
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Gerrit Eicker
Formspring
Web forms processing? Formspring offers a nifty service but its social side project needs a makeover; http://j.mp/7POZhX
Gerrit Eicker 11:14 on 27. July 2010 Permalink |
Santa Maria: “The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore – we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs. … So why not build a desktop app for web design around WebKit? I’m not talking about an in-browser AJAX toolkit for dragging elements around and changing fonts, but an actual desktop application built with WebKit as the core to its display. It could have accurate rendering and previews for the way page elements would look, but with some of the WYSIWYG tools desktop design apps have. We wouldn’t just approximate pixels in a flat comp, our CSS would be baked in to the layouts we draw and create on the page. And as Webkit grows, so to could this new app, always taking advantage of the latest and greatest functionality. Just like a browser, it could pull assets from remote servers; and just like a desktop app, it could make use of local processing power and OS level functionality. This would allow it to effectively combine some of the best of both worlds, with a foot firmly planted in the web. – The advantages would be monumental, allowing a strong creative and explorative process, while seeing how things could react on a live stage. It would fulfill many of the items on my wishlist because these are already part of core browser functionality. We would essentially be designing with live page elements; not a picture of a text field—but a text field you could click into and start typing, and then drag to a different area of the page entirely. – I know I’m generalizing; I’m a designer first and most certainly not a developer, but I’ve been occupying this space and using these tools long enough to have a hunch for what works and what doesn’t. An application like this could change the process of web design considerably. Most importantly, it wouldn’t be a proxy application that we use to simulate the way webpages look – it would already speak the language of the web. It would truly be designing in the browser.”
Washington DC Web Designer 01:15 on 3. August 2010 Permalink |
Interesting, this is something I’ve overlooked as a web designer.