Been a while since I posted here. In any case, here’s an interesting and useful resource list for designers.
Not so much for design or creativity itself, but more the business and organisational aspects of it.
Her you go: 44 online (and offline) items to help designers plan and create better.

Smashing Magazine just released results of an extensive survey of web registration forms of Top 100 websites where forms should matter. Extremely useful to us now as we start rolling more and more websites every few months or so.
If anything, these are our benchmarks that any web form design must meet.
Extracted and condensed are the [...]

In case you don’t know already, UI Design Patterns are not creative design patterns or illustrations. In web practice, they are a set of solutions that happened as a result of best practices of design layout.
UI Design Pattern is a strong marriage of Information Architecture (IA) and User Interface (UI) turning a set of User [...]

There was a time when I had only been working as a designer for about a year. So, when a friend of mine came to me with a client who needed some freelance work to design his company’s Product Catalogue, I was happy to take it on.

I don’t know about some of you out there. But in my case, I am always looking for ideas. And almost always, these must emanate around a central purpose. What is the idea? What is the purpose? I’d always find myself asking.
To me, being creative is not about good design. Not about good typography. Not [...]