Better Mobile Form Design

Trust me, no one likes filling in forms —especially on mobile devices where one-handed, on-the-go data input and slow connections are common place. As a result, designing forms that make mobile input faster, easier, and less error-prone is crucial. Here's a few ways it can be done.To illustrate, let's look at two mobile forms for booking a hotel: one from the Expedia mobile Web site, the other from the Kayak iPhone application.Expedia's mobile Web site has made several modifications to the desktop version of their hotel booking form: the layout has been optimized for slender mobile screens; the "search near" set of options has been...

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Create A Beautiful 3D Text Composition

3D text effects are common elements in graphic design and advertising. The extra depth dimension allows images to visually pop from the page, and provide excellent building blocks for development of an image. A variety of tools can be used to create them, but creation of 3D text effects often requires significant time, patience, and knowledge.In this tutorial, Joe Moore will teach you step by step how to render beautiful and visually sharp 3d text in 3D Studio Max, render it using Mental Ray, and then combine it with additional visual elements to create an atmospheric, nature inspired 3D text composition using Photoshop. If you don’t...

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Best of ‘3D Studio Max’ Tuts

Modeling Nokia 5800 Phone in 3D Studio Max (Video Tutorial)This tutorial dedicated for beginner and intermediate 3d studio max users, here you’ll learn how to create a realistic Nokia 5800 xpress music phone quickly. All techniques shown at this tutorial can be applied to other 3d application easily. And the methods of making the phone itself are fast, and very efficient. Though the resulting [...]Making Realistic Gold, Silver and Copper Materials in 3DS Max This tutorial will guide you step by step to create gold, silver and copper materials on 3d studio max. This tutorial could be practiced both of the beginner and professional...

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How To Market Your Mobile Application

App Store is a competitive environment. Against more than 140,000 apps, all screaming for attention, how do you make sure your app gets its time in the spotlight? What does it take to get good media coverage? How do you get people to talk about your app—and, ideally, how do you get them to buy it and show it to their friends?Following the simple rules laid out below, you will increase your chances in the battle for fame and glory. These tips might seem rudimentary or in-your-face obvious, but they are so often neglected in the heat of the moment.Read more...

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Design a character for a T-shirt print

Speakerdog creator Ben the Illustrator, guides you through your own character creation – and then from screen to printed T-shirt. Character creation is a personal thing. Anyone can doodle stick drawings and scrappy characters, but armed with an insider’s knowledge of cracking character design, you can breathe life into any design. Characters can be created in any application – from 2D pixels to 3D models – but vector-based artwork holds a special place in any creative’s mind. And vector-based characters can make the jump from screen to screen-print with ease. For this tutorial, Ben the Illustrator reveals the process he goes through...

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How to paint using the Gradient Mesh tool

Gradient Mesh is a grid-based painting technique in Illustrator that enables advanced colouring of vector objects with smooth and malleable color transitions. If you’re reasonably familiar with Illustrator’s Pen tool and other path-drawing, selection, and colour tools, you can use the Gradient Mesh feature to add realistic colouring, lighting, and 3D characteristics to a flat vector object. Ultimately, gradient mesh can give you the effect of photo-realistic painting with all the benefits and freedom of resolution-independent vector artwork. The Illustrator Create Gradient Mesh dialog. Why use a gradient mesh? Gradient...

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Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions

Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list goes on. So, limiting the number of forms in your mobile applications and websites is generally a good idea. When you do want input from users on mobile devices, radio buttons, checkboxes, select menus and lists tend to work much better than open text fields.But constraints breed innovation, and mobile forms are no different. The limitations of mobile devices have forced developers and designers to find new ways to allow users to input data faster and more easily. Thanks to...

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Exterior Scenes in 3d Max

Author: Lon Grohs & Rodrigo LopezResponsible for some of the most iconic architectural photographs of all time, Julius Shulman once described that in order to teach his photography students to photograph a subject, he asked them to first put their cameras down and learn to "see" the subject first.Developing an understanding of the subject and discovering how to best portray its character is a crucial step in composing your image. Is the subject contemporary, modern, classic, historic, minimal, and so on? Depending on the design of the structure, different sensibilities may apply. And while we don't have the capability to put down our...

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