Studies have show most favorite colors (above) by men and women—along with their least favorite
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design — it reinforces it.
—Pierre Bonnard
Color is one of the most powerful tools in a designer’s toolkit. It can draw attention, set a mood, and influence a users’ emotions, perceptions and actions. Did you know that color accounts for 90% of the reason why you purchased a specific product? Or that full-colored ads in magazines are recognized 26% more than black and white ads?
Nick Babich has a great article on color theory for designers—check out The impact of color on conversion rates at the Adobe Creative Cloud blog.
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Here’s a great tip to recover Admin privileges on almost any Mac. If you’ve ever been locked-out of a Mac, you know what a pain it can be. This security tip should never be used for evil purposes, but it’s worth knowing.
Head over to theMacObserver to find out how to recover admin on macOS by deleting a single file.
]]>While some companies “throw together” features to sell their wares, Apple spent years developing a low-energy form of Bluetooth for just such a use-case. Bravo, Apple!
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‘‘Jony works tirelessly at the detail, evolving, improving, refining. For me, that makes him a poet.’’
—Norman Foster
The Wall Street Journal has a superb feature article on Jonathon Ive, Apple’s design genius. And of course, it’s packed with gorgeous photos of Apple’s new headquarters, including some inside pics that I’ve not seen anywhere else. You just gotta love the clean lines of the workspaces and common areas shown.
Pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit-back in your favorite chair because it’s a long article, but so worth the time.
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I know how to read, goddammit—and I can read the slide faster than you can read it to me. Not to mention, you sound like an uninformed idiot that had an intern copy & paste text from Google into a slide.
In Worst Ways to Use PowerPoint, you’ll pick-up a few tips to make your PowerPoint/Keynote presentations much better. While most designers learn these tips early on in their career, sometimes we need a little reminder. But mostly I hope this gives you ammunition to share with a client or boss that thinks “more is better.” ]]>