Standardise the Appearance of Web Drop Down List

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Drop-down list also known as “select list”, “listbox”, is one of the most common form user interface control you will encounter when you make form. We know how it works, how to use it but the appearance of drop-down list is out of our control. Hate it or Ignore it, different OS and different browsers,…

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The Art of Illusion And Surrealism

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Continued from The Art of Negative Space Illustration, we have another series of illustration from the same designer Tan Yao Hoong. This series illustrates 20 really creative and well executed illusions and surrealism. Some of the illustrations have double meaning, and a few of them  reminded me of the movie Inception. Journey to the City…

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Beautiful And Consistent Web Forms With Javascript Plugins

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Web form is an important component in web development, all web designers would encounter it in their career. As we all know it, all the browsers render form elements differently and most of the time, the design and the working version are greatly different in its appearance. In order to eliminate those differences, web developers…

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Create and Style an Image Slider with Thumbnail Carousel

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Continued from previous series of skinning carousel, this time we will be skinning an image slider with thumbnail carousel. The coolest thing though, we are still using the same jQuery plugin (carouFredSel) but different configuration and skin. For the skin, we are using this beautiful PSD file called “Little gallery” by Milos Milikic. According to…

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The Art of Negative Space Illustration

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Tan Yau Hoong, a visual artist and graphic designer has created a series of fantastic negative space illustration. Here is the definition of negative space from wikipedia: Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, and…

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Inspiring iPad Apps’ User Interface

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The success of app store is phenomenal. For these few years the number of apps have grown from a few to million of them. I always like apps with beautiful and well-designed interface, it makes me want to use it more often. Now, we have iPad, bigger screen, faster processor which created a whole new…

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Best Technique to Style A Flexible Web Button

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There are many ways to style a web button, for myself, I always use the same method. Today, we are going to demonstrate how to style a button from scratch. We are going to use this lovely design from favbulous PSD repository: As you can see, this button comes with many colors and different button…

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Minimalism: Creative illustration of Hilarious WTF Moments

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I’m a big fan of minimal design. I stumbled upon these creative illustrations from Minga – a creative studio located in Argentina and I was really amused by its simplicity and the power to express all the WTF scenario effectively. I giggled. Apparently, Abduzeedo has already interviewed Minga about the concept behind this illustration: WTF…

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