Category Archives: Design

My entry for the DataPortability logo contest

By Alastair | March 4, 2008

I love nothing more than a good old fashioned logo contest like the one being held by DataPortablity. Even though I went down for the count in the Ruby logo contest, despite clearly having the logo with the mojo , I’m giving the DataPortability contest a shot.
The reason they’re having the contest is [...]

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CSS Frameworks

By Alastair | January 29, 2008

YAML, Blueprint, Tripoli, YahooUI – not the latest competition to Rails, Django, CakePHP, or Wicket but a set of CSS frameworks to jumpstart page layout.
I had been using YahooUI (and sometimes the DreamBeaver templates) but YAML’s Builder and Blueprint’s Generator look like good ways to get started.
Or you can always pay someone else to do [...]

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It’s the new style

By Alastair | January 24, 2008

The blog gets a refresh. This is a preview of the new vixiom.com which has been under redesign for about a year now
The blog has almost become my main site, I get all my new leads through it (or word of mouth). In my not too distant youth I used to think you [...]

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Designing Interfaces (the Book)

By Alastair | October 6, 2006

Found a great site that’s a companion to the book ‘Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design’ by Jenifer Tidwell. Split into sections like ‘Getting Around’, ‘ Organizing the Page’ with images and descriptions of interface solutions it’s good place to pick up UI ideas you may not of thought about.
If the book is as [...]

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