In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a vector character based on the character “Angie 80” from the mini vinyl toy series “Heroes and Heartbreakers” designed by Bubnis” and made by Kidrobot“, and we’ll use Illustrator to do it. Step 1 First of all, we need an image of Angie 80 which [...]
In this article we’ll follow some easy steps to install and configure properly a Rails Development Environment in Mac OSX Snow Leopard. In our lab test we ran through all the steps in around one hour, considering all download and installing times. Install XCode We’ll start installing XCode, the Apple Developer Package. We need it [...]
In the seventh part of the Getting To Grips series we will be covering the following topics: How to create a book file Adding documents to a book file Specifying and customizing a page numbering Creating a running header/footer Introduction In this tutorial we’re going to be learning how to work with long documents, specifically [...]
I have found that the best way to think of user experience is as the core of a brand: the reactor or the nucleus. Without good user experience your brand means nothing. But what is a brand? Its most basic definition is the sum of the experiences that a person has with a company or [...]
With the amount of content available online these days, we sometimes have to resort to using different techniques in order to show/hide/group some content or information on a web page. Content sliders are very popular because they work and usually don’t hinder usability and in many cases can even improve the user experience. Today we’ll [...]
Sketching is one of the many ways humans have adapted to, to express and expand on ideas. A sketch is more like bringing an idea to a three dimensional view rather than imagining it in the head, which causes our idea to evolve over time as we forget certain elements of our ideas, and replace [...]
