graphic-design

Fighting programmer colors.

I have a couple of pet projects where I'm the sole designer/programmer and I spend too much time changing the user interface to make it easier to use by real users and avoiding bright yellow and green that is so common on "programmer" designs. Do you have tips to choose a color scheme when you do not have a graphics designer around? How...

Agile Web/Graphic Design

How do you incorporate web/graphic design tasks (template design, logo design, look-n-feel, etc...) into your agile process (XP/SCRUM)? How do you go about developer/designer pairing, designer stand-up meeting attendance? In the larger sense, can an agile process be applied to web/graphic design? ...

What's the best way to integrate Designers using Dreamweaver with Visual Studio C# developers?

I know about code-behind files, but what is the best real-world way of Designers that are using DreamWeaver or other Design Tools to work with Visual Studio programmers? For example, say you have a basic website with user interface forms hitting the database... the database work is definitely done by the developer but how to tie the d...

Understanding colors

Hello everyone, Kindly point towards theory/material to read for understanding colors and what makes a good color combinations. Mind it that I am not interested in say "Color combinations for web application" etc. More of the lines of say "Colors and humans". Material free to read is what i am looking for. Thanks ...

How can a graphic designer become a programmer?

I have a friend who is a graphic and web designer and he has been involved in programming in some projects, he has learned himself some ActionScript and his logic is good, also he has been in touch with PHP and he's not so bad (he has no formal programming training). We both live in Mexico and here the salary of a graphic or web designe...

Artistic aspects of UI?

Consider a single button. At one extreme, we have a black OpenGL window, with: outline (in white) of a rectangle bitmap remdered font inside of it, saying "Ok" At the other extreme, we have Mac OS X, a button that is: well rounded has some gradient showing light effects on it nice antialiased "OK" soft shadow of some sort These ...

Where can I get lots of distinguishable colors for a chart?

Hello, I'm looking for a list of about thirty colors (RGB values) that are sufficently different so that when used in a bar chart the user can match each bar to that color in the legend. Does anyone have such a list of colors? Thanks, AJ ...