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The new Prologue Wordpress theme
The creators of Wordpress have introduced a new theme that seeks to emulate Twitter in small workgroup environments. Prologue provides easy password-protected posting from the front-end, with categorization by project and tagging. Your Gravatar is even integrated. Read more…
Easy access to often used UI elements
“It has long been common practice to use recurring solutions to solve common problems.” That’s the opening statement at UI-patterns.com, a growing collection of common practice web design techniques. The site not only provides a list of everything from “Inline Help Box” to “Continuous Scrolling,” but it provides detailed information about the reasoning and practical application of each process. Read more…
Amazon’s “remodel” FAQ page
Most of you will be aware that Amazon has pushed out a complete redesign of their site in the last several months. While we like the new look overall, we were mainly impressed with the company’s openness about why they did what they did. Read more…
Set aside Photoshop and just make ART: ArtRage 2.5
We’re in love with the $25 ArtRage 2.5 from Ambient Design. Sure, we know that more expensive and full-featured painting apps exist, but we haven’t seen one that utilizes such a cool and intuitive interface and creates such realistic painting effects - at any price. Read more…
Stop bad design dead in its tracks
“Bring bad design to justice.” That’s the tagline for design-police.org, a site that does nothing but provide a great set of sticker templates for use by designers in protecting the general public from bad design. Read more…
