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Sep
11

Design Inspiration

  • Posted By : Jennifer Bennett/
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200-2Any strong project first begins with a strong set of tools. Tool #1: Your brain – filled with all those ideas, images, and skills. But my second set of tools in the digital design world are links. What? Yep. Links. Links to great articles. Links to great inspiration. Links to great resources. Below I’ve grouped some of my all-star links into the categories that compose the beginning stages of a design project. The basic building blocks if you will. Enjoy.

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Patterns and Arrangementsui2

And by patterns I don’t mean background visual patterns like this or this, but user patterns. Should the fields have background? Should “forgot password” appear at the top or the bottom? Can I put 10 icons in the navigation bar (please don’t)? The most important question – What is the difference between iOS and Android in UI design?

 

search_3Animations

An animation adds polish, delight, and energy to your app. More than just a spinning circle, an animation can make using an app a memorable experience instead of a series of colored squares you tap your finger on.

Some great resource for animations: Capptivate.co and UIGifs.com

 

Screen Shot 2015-07-28 at 11.41.23 AMColors/Pairing

Do you want the app bright or dark? Medium blue or bright blue? But not corporate blue. Not ocean blue. You know a “bluey-blue”…
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When you find yourself having this sort of conversation – hold the presses and go here: Kuler or here ColourLovers or here Coolors.

 

Landing-TeaserStyle

You can take all three of the above categories and still build drastically different apps when you implement a “style“. Do you want modern and sleek? Bright and playful? Traditional and trustworthy? Each style elicits a different combination and selection of colors, textures, and placement. I like to get an overall idea of stylistic choices from the parents of design aggregation: Dribbble and Pinterest.


That rounds out my link-tastic high-level run down of starting a design process.
Go forth and make beautiful and wonderful things!

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Sep
11

I’d Pick the “Grey” iPhone 5C Despite This

  • Posted By : Jonathan Wiley/
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I’m super excited about the new iPhone 5C, but some of the new colors are just too much for me. Don’t get me wrong, the bright blue, yellow, green, and red 5C’s look great, but the grey (officially “white”) one matches my style a bit more. Someone over at Gizmodo penned a wonderful article this morning titled “What Your iPhone 5C Color Says About You” (cached version linked, original pulled?). What was said about my pick?

Grey: You are a hipster. The grey will go well with your Moleskin and won’t clash with ANY of your rolled-up skinny jeans. You’ve been using iOS 7 since the moment it was in beta, since you’re totes a developer. You’ll refer to the color of your iPhone as ‘slate’.

Fairly spot on, except I’m not a hipster, am I? Also, I’m making it official LunarLincoln policy that we use the term ‘space grey‘ when referring to the color instead of ‘slate’.


Jun
21

Color Palettes

  • Posted By : Jennifer Bennett/
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So, as you may have seen on the twitter, I am not a fan of the color palette’s used in the new iOS redesign. I get where they are going with the flatt-er UI and the simplification – that is all well and good (though they put out what seems to be rough, first drafts). But I cannot get the Lisa Frank color gradients. I loved Lisa Frank – it was the only coloring book that I colored EVERY SINGLE PAGE of in elementary school, but that’s just it love”ED”. The neon gradients need to stay in the 90’s along with stirrup pants and windsuits.

Why so annoyed? Color is important, color can be the critical point between meh and yeh. With the Lunchtimer app, we spent a lot of time looking at color palettes – and a lot of time lining up screen shots of combos next to each other until my desktop looked like the paint-chip counter at Home Depot. I actually like to look at home decorating sites to get ideas – the colors are broader and more varied there than the tiny little squares most palette sites give you. I think we finally settled on something really nice and fresh but not too trendy. Sneak peek to the left here.

Anyways, aside from designing and selecting color palettes, below are some links to some interesting things I’ve been enjoying lately (and are thematically related)

DesignSponge – History of Colors Series
RadioLab Colors Podcast – Which I reference at least once a month
HowAboutOrange – a design blog I love, that happens to feature A LOT of orange.


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