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When designing for the web, I often need to take pieces from bigger PSDs and create smaller Photoshop files out of them. My typical process involves creating a new file—one equal in size to the document I’m working on—and then dragging all the selected layers over. Afterwards, I go through a handful of more time-consuming [...]
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There’s been a lot of debate over the last year or so about ditching Flash for HTML5. It seems like every other article in the web design world is about how awesome HTML5 is. There have also been an uprise in Flash-to-HTML5 converters on the market (don’t even think about going that route). HTML5 has [...]
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On an early evening last Wednesday, I popped in to the UCLA Design Media Arts department (my alma mater) for their now annual career day. The career day featured about 20 representatives from a range of creative companies (Google, Facebook, JPL, etc.), looking to review portfolios, hand out advice and potentially hire these design students. [...]
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Why wireframes won’t hurt your project, and why you should be using them I recently found an article floating around in the design community titled “Why wireframes can hurt your project“. It’s by Sacha Greif, who lists a handful of reasons why the common web designer shouldn’t worry about creating wireframes. To sum it up, [...]
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Google Reader, Twitter, and Facebook provide us countless resources for new reads on an array of topics that resonate with the designers, strategists, and developers inside all of us at Use All Five. We’ve probably missed a few gems, but below we’ve collected our favorite reads of year — enjoy! 11 Ways to Visualize Changes [...]
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Late Sunday night a NY Times article on The Atlantic’s revitalization as a profitable publication sent astonishment across several Twitter circles. What struck me is the excitement and shock in these communities, but it was clear as a reader of The Atlantic and a fan of startups what they were trying to achieve — they [...]
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Stanton & Company had it’s clients over at their offices for their 2010 Holiday Party. Here are a few Polaroids that made it past the censor board. Thanks again to Amy Stanton and everyone else there. Here’s to a great 2011. Happy Holidays from Use All Five.
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Photo credit: YoVenice Flickr If there’s one thing we do all day long here (besides work), it’s listen to music. Copious amounts of music. So much music it will make your head spin. Anyone who’s ever been to the studio knows the music is playing all day long. In our annual tradition, we compile a [...]
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There is a lot of recent discussion in the web design community about the topic of Art Direction. This is due the influx of individually designed blog posts, made popular by designers like Jason Santa Maria. Designers can control how individual blog posts and pages can look, similarly to the magazine format. This actually isn’t [...]
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Last Wednesday, we had the nice surprise of reading not one, but TWO Use All Five projects in several FastCompany articles. The first project was Nebul.us, the social network startup with a data visualization core. The article goes through the details of the first major update, which we’ve been cooking up the past few months [...]
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