Tips & Tricks tag

I think the best thing to come out of the web design/​​development move­ment is the recent trend towards research-​​​​driven design. While noth­ing new to the big dogs on Madi­son Ave, it gen­er­ally is over­looked in the print world—especially on such a gran­u­lar level and rapid level. This is cer­tainly a trick more print design­ers need keep up their sleeves. At its core, A/​​B test­ing is exactly what it sounds like: you have two ver­sions of an ele­ment (A…

Ever wanted to show a client how their cur­rent site does, or as is the case with Flash, does not ren­der on the iPhone? Email a screen grab right from your iPhone. Once you’ve loaded the site in Safari press the home+power but­ton at the same time. Your screen will quickly flash and make the shut­ter noise to let you know you’ve cap­tured the screen con­tents. From the Phở­tos app you can email the image to yourself…

Pho­to­shop doesn’t just make mod­els look pretty, it bor­rows a lit­tle trick from them to keep svelte—purging.