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Designing for the digital grapevine

digital grapevine social web 2

Web 2.0 in design and marketing This is an image I made to try to explain the digital grapevine: A network of users that interact to answer questions, solve problems and have fun or the trend in the use of the internet and web design that enhances creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users that [...]

June 11, 2008 9 Comments Filed Under: Design, Internet, Marketing, Photoshop
Tagged With: binary numbers, blend modes, creativity, design, grapevine, interactivity, Marketing, palette, social networking sites, social web, web 2.0, web design

How to design shiny interface buttons in Illustrator

These little buttons take a few seconds to make in Illustrator and give a nice polished, “web 2.0″ feel to a website or interactive environment. Firstly, when creating this shiny effect in Illustrator remember to make the document RGB. Go File > Document Color Mode > RGB. It won’t work otherwise. Many thanks to Simon [...]

August 27, 2007 21 Comments Filed Under: Design, Illustrator, Internet
Tagged With: adobe illustrator, artboard, beautiful, blur, box, boxes, cmd, colours, curve, curves, design, dialog box, gradient, highlight, Illustrator, images, inset, interactive environment, interactivity, interface buttons, linear gradient, modes, objective, palette, polygon tool, radial gradient, shape, shiny, simple, tool tip, transparencies, transparency, triangle

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