Tutorials
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Grid-Based Design 101
For many designers, grid-based design is still somewhat of a mystery. In this article we'll take a look at some of the basics of grid-based design so that you can understand it and apply it to your projects.
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Quiet Structure
"Quiet structure is achieved when you de–emphasize the structural elements; the containing boxes, structural lines, bullets, structural color elements, etc… and bring a rhythmical consistency to the layout. The result is that the content becomes more conspicuous and the overall clarity of presentation is greatly enhanced."
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Grids: an invisible foundation
If I've done my job, in ten minutes you'll know why you should care about design grids and when and how to use them.
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Designing Grid Systems For Flash
I’m going to walk you through the process of creating a grid for a Flash based site that will work for screen resolutions of 1024×768 and up.
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Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 5
Investigates how the theory of grid design can be applied to a flexible web page.
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Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 4
For the purposes of this article, I'm going to be focussing on the theory of creating the grid rather than the implementation.
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Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 3
Discusses some of the challenges and rewards of designing grid systems for the web.
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Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 2
Ratios and how they can be combined to create more complex grid systems.
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Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 1
The first part of this Five Simple Steps series is taking some of the points discussed in the preface and putting it to practice.
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Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Preface
In the context of graphic design, a grid is an instrument for ordering graphical elements of text and images.