Every few month I need to use WordPress.com to create or update a site for a friend. And every time I get frustrated with how confusing and convoluted the user interface is. “Reader” is the d...
I’ve created an app for real-time stats of my solar panel and another one for Envato earnings which I can view instantly any time with just a single tap on the Pebble Time watch that I got ...
Here are a few photos of the electric “Penny-farthing” bicycle that I designed and built. I call it the fixie of electric bicycles — no chain, no pedals, just awesome. It all started last ...
Instead of making you to think about the way you hold your phone when taking a photo with Instagram, it enforces a 1:1 aspect ratio for all your photos. That is a simple design decision that allo...
Here is the second iteration of the UX update for the Widget Context plugin. Please check out the live demo and let me know what you think! The Concept The number of locations where you might w...
Inspired by the presentation “Design for Wikileaks” by Daniel van der Velden. Read more →
In web design everything is linear and without bounding dimensions — like viewing a magazine spread through a magnifying glass and never seeing the full picture. Read more →
Typeface designer Matthew Carter has left his mark on everything from Microsoft to magazines (via SimpleBits) Read more →
Define your home as a GPS location +/- 50 m. If you are within that area, you don’t have to enter the password. If you are outside that area, you are requested to select three images in the ri...
How come that for interface elements in Gnome (in Ubuntu 10.04) we’re still stuck with bitmaps instead of scalable vector graphics. Read more →
Ubuntu has a new logo and identity brand, and I really don’t like. Why through away the legendary friendly circle icon and replace it with a badly kerned wordmark? Read more →
Because content is king also in the business of perfumes. Inspired by Ubuntu Linux release cycle. Read more →
https://kaspars.net/blog/perfumes-named-after-their-month-of-release
Jeff has brought to my attention that folks at Automattic are testing a redesign of the WordPress.com front page. Those arriving at WordPress.com front page are either from other blogs hosted on ...
Is Apple really going in the footsteps of Microsoft by creating more and more version of essentially the same product? When seeing iPhone 3G S for the first time I immediately associated “S�...
While the ideas behind the Digital Britain initiative are really great and noble, its logo is quite the opposite — what is the connection between a flash drive and an open access to informati...
https://kaspars.net/blog/digital-britain-and-usb-flash-drives
One of the important ideas behind the WordPress 2.7 administration area redesign was to maximize the amount of information and input fields above the ‘fold’. While the current design does the...
https://kaspars.net/blog/tweaking-wordpress-admin-header-design
Do you create things and ideas here in Latvia? If so, let the world know where they come from — label them using this open source ‘Made in Latvia’ logo (download SVG): Read more →
https://kaspars.net/blog/open-source-logo-for-labeling-things-and-ideas-made-in-latvia
By Lawrence Yang via a comment at Brand New: Read more →
Bitstream Charter is a glyphic serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter which I discovered only recently in Ubuntu 8.10 (it ships with X11). It is definitely one of the most beautiful serif font...
Do you know what good designers do when everyone else thinks Helvetica is cool? They stretch and bend Times New Romans and Comic Sans. Thats because message is what is important, not the color or...
Why use Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica or Verdana if there is the fantastic Liberation Sans — created by Steve Matteson and liberated by Red Hat, Inc. under GNU GPL licence. Here is an example...
https://kaspars.net/blog/were-back-with-a-free-font-suggestion-liberation-sans
Sorry for such a long heading, but it is the question which by itself is an answer to those trying to understand how the web design is different from the graphic design. Designer and writer Armin...
https://kaspars.net/blog/how-graphic-is-the-web-design-and-how-web-is-the-graphic-design