InspirationTime was inspired by Jack Herbert‘s desire to gather and tag inspiring design from across the web, and his dissatisfaction with existing web design galleries. The website is designed to make it easy for designers to find exactly the kind of inspiration they want. Find massive inspiration @ InspirationTime

Here’s the deal. Designers should not accept every project that crosses their eyes. For five years, I was stuck in the mentality that every potential project was a chariot of gold ready to bring me unimaginable riches. Wrong. I discovered through a series of poor projects that accepting everything is not a profitable strategy. I [...]

Usability Form Design And The Fallacy Of The Required Field I was on a mailing list today, and this came across: “Use red asterisks — they’re the standard for showing required fields.” Standards are wonderful, but if I asked my mom with is the international symbol for a required field, she would look at me [...]

Wireframing is one of the most valuable parts of any web design project. It can save a designer tons of time by hashing out the details of a site’s architecture, functionality, and content prior to actually starting a visual design. But if done inefficiently, it can end up costing more time and can even create [...]

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Even with a relatively limited set of options in CSS, typography can vary tremendously using pure CSS syntax. Serif or sans-serif? Large or small font? Line height, spacing, font size and padding… The list goes on and on.

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Happiness Brussles, an agency based in Belgium recently completed a project to design a new font for the Toyota IQ to demonstrate the small car’s agility. Instead of going the usual route on sitting down at the computer and tweaking vectors, they decided to let the car design the font itself.