Link Drop (Weeks 47-52 2012, 1-3 2013)

Crazy big link drop because the world gets crushingly demanding of one's time around the holidays, and it takes time to recoup.

• Build Your Own Adobe Creative Suite with Free and Cheap Software
• How Tom Cruise Ruined Interaction Design
• Form Follows Function FFF is a collection of interactive experiences created by Jongmin Kim in HTML5.
• One div - The single element HTML/CSS icon database Pure CSS icons.
• jKit - jQuery based UI Toolkit - Index
• Ice T on "Fuck It!" - YouTube
• Eva Lotta Lamm's Sketching & Sketchnotes References
• Theme Mac OS X with an Ultra-Minimalist & Clean Silver Appearance
• The Flat Sink | SachaGreif.com The most interesting article on the flat design issue that I've read. I've read many good articles on the topic, but just as many posts throw up straw man arguments appearing to have a discussion about skeumorphism vs. visual effects-free design. The point to take away for me is this—if design elements do not provide affordance and feedback, regardless of whether they are aesthetically flat or otherwise, they can be harder to use. This is one case where embracing a visual design aesthetic to be different without carefully considering and testing the usability can be risky.
• Max Themes Blog - ✎ If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it Don't be thrown by the title. This is an article is more about the lack of visual affordance in touch apps rather than about either walkthroughs or flat and minimal interface visual design.
• Polyvore Engineering Blog: Web Developer Admits: Objective-C > HTML5
• UX Archive User flows for mobile apps screencaptured.
• Sticky Captions Concept | Codrops Keep image captions in the viewport.
• Photoshop Layers tricks and shortcuts | Veerle's blog 3.0
• Jenni Sparks Illustration: Hand Drawn Map of New York
• Making Responsive Web Design Optional - Toolbox Digital Blog Make responsive sites that allow the user to toggle the original layout back on if they choose.
• 2D Game Art for Programmers: Apache Helicopter If you've ever wanted to see how a complex graphic gets built up from basic geometric shapes, then this is for you. Great deconstruction/reconstruction in this tutorial.
• The Big Badass List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources
• Chrome Web Store - Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate Awesome Screenshot got 100% better with Save to Google Drive.
• PRODUCT + UI + UX + CEREAL | Design Build Review
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