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Vitaly Friedman - 35 Fantastic HDR Images

Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. In graphics HDR imaging is a set o

Photography , Inspiration , Pictures

Vitaly Friedman - Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples

Navigation is the most significant element in web design. Since web-layouts don’t have any physical representation a user can stick to, consistent navigation menu is one of the few design elements w

Showcases , Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design

Vitaly Friedman - Breathtaking Typographic Posters

You can’t design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicat

Art , Graphics , Typography , Posters , Illustrations

Vitaly Friedman - Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding

Sometimes being a web-developer is just damn hard. Particularly coding is often responsible for slowing down our workflow, reducing the quality of our work and sleepless nights with pizza and coffee

Techniques , coding , Css

Vitaly Friedman - 25 Mind-Blowing Gadgets

Few weeks ago we’ve presented a number of innovative gadgets, devices, designs and concepts. Unless explicitly specified, none of them has been officially released or produced yet, and none of them

Gadgets , Devices , Inspiration , Innovation

Vitaly Friedman - Award-Winning Newspaper Designs

Print and Web are different. Traditional layout techniques from print, particularly an advanced formatting, aren’t applicable to the Web as CSS doesn’t offer sophisticated instruments to design such

Newspapers , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - 15 Stunning Cutting-Edge Gadgets and Technologies

We live in a spectacular time. The pace of technology steadily increases, new fields of science are heavily explored and innovative concepts emerge almost every day, resulting in stunning and overwh

Gadgets , Devices , Inspiration , Technology , Innovation

Vitaly Friedman - 10 Principles Of Good Web Design

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at CreativeWeb who focus on creating bespoke and interactive web experiences for aspiring and established businesses and enterprises. Th

ux , Usability , Web Design , Psychology , Guidelines , ui

Vitaly Friedman - 29 Cool Music Videos

Music has always been an excellent source of inspiration. Particularly if you are stuck with some problem you can’t find a workaround for, a beautiful song can give you a new perspective, let you se

Videos , music , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - Data Visualization and Infographics

The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectivelty. It doesn’t mean that data visualization needs to look boring to be functiona

Infographics , Statistics , Inspiration , Visualizations , Data Visualization

Vitaly Friedman - Innovative Designs and Devices

Steve Jobs stated once that the “design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” While this statement has proven to be crucial over thousands of years, one shouldn’t m

Gadgets , Devices , Inspiration , Innovation

Vitaly Friedman - Creative Workplaces

Your workplace and the atmosphere surrounding you determine the way you work and explore your imagination. The more inspirational your workplace is, the easier it is to break the creativity block an

Networking , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - 40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professonal Design

The importance of typography in design can’t be overestimated. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the elegance and sharpness they deserve. Besides, elegant fonts

Typography , Downloads , Freebies , fonts , Free Fonts

Vitaly Friedman - Tag Clouds Gallery: Examples And Good Practices

Compared to conventional navigation patterns tag clouds don’t necessarily offer a more convenient and intuitive navigation. However, used properly, they can provide visitors with an instant illustra

Showcases , Navigation , Web Design , Design

Vitaly Friedman - 30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of

You don’t have to agree upon everything. As a professional web developer you are the advocate of your visitors’ interests and needs; you have to protect your understanding of good user experience an

ux , Studies , Usability , Glossaries

Vitaly Friedman - 50 Web Designers x 6 Questions

Some months ago we’ve selected 50 prominent designers and design companies, contacted them and asked to answer five design-related questions, sharing their knowledge and experience with fellows deve

Interviews , coding , Css , Design

Vitaly Friedman - 80 Beautiful Professional Fonts

Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typefaces which manages to fulfill three basic tasks. Support the corporate identity, enrich th

Typography , Downloads , Freebies , fonts , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Data Visualization: Modern Approaches

Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in ev

Diagrams , Maps , Graphics , Visualizations , Data Visualization

Vitaly Friedman - CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know

Apart from Floats, the CSS Specificity is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in Cascading Stylesheets. The different weight of selectors is usually the reason why your CSS-rules don’t apply

coding , Css , Essentials

Vitaly Friedman - Developer’s Alarm: 200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity

Besides, using them in your favourite software applications, you can drastically increase your productivity, enhance your time-managment and improve both your professional skills and the quality of

Shortcuts , Time management , Productivity , coding

Vitaly Friedman - 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding

CSS isn’t always easy to deal with. Depending on your skills and your experience, CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you aren’t sure which selectors are actually being appl

workflow , Techniques , coding , Css

Vitaly Friedman - 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding

CSS isn’t always easy to deal with. Depending on your skills and your experience, CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you aren’t sure which selectors are actually being appl

workflow , Techniques , coding , Css

Vitaly Friedman - Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them

Web 2.0 has its positive and its negative sides. Apart from tremendous technological improvements, provided by Ajax, semantically organized content and the growing popularity of RSS-Feeds, the term

Semantics , coding

Vitaly Friedman - CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know

The concept of floats is probably one of the most unintuitive concepts in CSS. Floats are often misunderstood and blamed for floating all the context around it, causing readability and usability pro

Tutorials , Layouts , coding , Css , Essentials