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User Centered Webdesign – Persuading the User

Michiel — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:35:15 +0000

This article elaborates on some principles which you can use to make your site more user centered. With the availability of shared information on the internet and a lot of tutorials about design, mark-up and programming, learning how to make websites is into reach of many more people than past decade. However, as most design education can emphasis, learning the tools is not enough. One of the key elements of a (strategic) designer is the ability to think out of the perspective of the user. In this article I want to show some principles which focus on the user, and are from the field of neuro webdesign.

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Enhance navigation and links using the CSS3 transition property

Michiel — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:29:54 +0000

In the following quick tip I’ll explain something about using CSS3 transitions for navigation and hovering links. (more…)

M-Sign HTML5 WordPress Theme

Michiel — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:44:47 +0000

Welcome to the HTLM 5 M-Sign Theme by Michiel! Featuring custom post types for slider items and portfolio items, a jquery slider, theme settings, integrated social media and more, the M-Sign.nl HTML 5 theme -as displayed on this site- might be the theme you are searching for. Downloadable for free!

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Build a jquery feature slider using custom posts

Michiel — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:10:13 +0000

Some weeks ago, I wanted to add a slider to my wordpress theme. At first, the slider was reading data from custom meta boxes at posts from the wordpress cms, and was linked to posts, but this had reduced flexibility since it was not possible to link a slider to any post, page or item. The solution? Use custom posts or custom content that is used for the slider only. This tutorial describes how to set up custom post types yourself, and to add a jquery slider that uses these custom post types, both in a wordpress environment. It is assumed that you have basic understanding of wordpress and understand html and css well.

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Bunker Textures

Michiel — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:57:20 +0000

Now that it is spring again, and the weather is getting better, there are a lot of interesting places to visit. One of these places was a bunker, on which I obviously shot some photographs and made textures from it. So now in this post, 19 free bunker textures!

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Explore the flexibility of Raw in Camera Raw 6.0

Michiel — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:46:52 +0000

Most compact camera’s don’t have the option, but if you are as lucky that you own a DSLR camera, you have the option to shoot in Raw. Ever wondering why people shoot in Raw? Or wondering what Raw even is? And what are the advantages? This tutorial will learn some basics things of colour correcting and editing in a raw photograph, and will explore some options that are not so easy accesible when editing a .jpg.

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Design a Minimalistic & Humorous Poster Ad in Photoshop

Michiel — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:31:09 +0000

This tutorial describes in a few steps how to make a very minimalistic poster advert in Photoshop. It is assumed that you have some basic photoshop knowledge. You’ll learn to apply some basic design principles, techniques on choosing the right fonts and masking photographs. There is also a small introduction on amateur product photography.

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Worn Paint & City Textures

Michiel — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:10:07 +0000

Recently I have been to Maastricht, a city full of historical artifacts and buildings in The Netherlands. Near to my hotel was a really old building which had much paint that was peeling of. The excellent source for shooting a new pack of 17 high quality textures, which can be downloaded free on M-Sign.nl!

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Activity

Michiel — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:48:16 +0000

As you may have noticed the activity in posting blogs has gone down after august. This is because I entered a new course called Imagination on my University. In this course we learn to build up a story, design characters, design sets, edit movieshots and set up proper storyboard and finally modelling, texturing and animating in Maya. Very interesting and very intensive as well.

If you are interested, you can follow my proces here (and see what is already done):

Imagination Blog

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Rust&Wear Textures

Michiel — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:24:46 +0000

High resolution (1920×1280) rust & wear textures are available to download in this post. These are free to use.

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