Posts Tagged design

Complexity in webdesign

office-toiletEver heard of ‘less is more’? This is, more than ever, a standard that every developer should follow while designing his new website. Why the f* would I start talking about that, you can ask yourself. Well, the answer is quite simple, as I was going to the toilet earlier this day and was in deep thoughts with the question: why isn’t everything designed and created as simple as a toilet room?

This is one of the only rooms and spaces in the world where you only find exactly what you need for the job and nothing else. No rubbish, no extra stupid information, just 3 simple things: a toilet, toilet paper and a little sink to wash your hands. These 3 things can easily be compared to 3 actions: brew, act, finish.

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layout inspiration

designA lot of programmers seem to hate the layout part of the job. Well if you work in a big company you probably won’t do the two jobs, but in some cases, or when you work in a small company (ex 1-5 employees) you have to do them both (layout and programming). And for those guys, it isn’t always easy to have inspiration right away, well there is a solution.

Here are a few sites that have a huge portfolio with nice layout sites. You can grab the css in some cases, and that’s the interesting part of it.

Take a look at them.
cssmania
cssremix/
cssimport
designsnack
Anyone got a better idea to get inspiration? Feel free to add your way of working in the comments.

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