Showing posts with label design courses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design courses. Show all posts

March 27, 2008

Blog on photoshop express

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Adobe has launched the online version of photoshop express for free. There is no download required for photoshop express unless if you have lower version of flash player. Flash 9 works fine with express. At present this version of online photoshop express won't replace the photoshop application. In future, adobe might move the features one by one.

Our experience: In the high speed connection, uploading of photos took time. Otherwise they have cool features in online photoshop express.

Do a test drive: https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html?bypass&wf=testdrive

FAQ: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=74&catid=684&threadid=1344716&enterthread=y

Learn features available in online Photoshop Express: To learn these techniques, visit http://www.photoshopexpresstechniques.com/

  • Crop & Rotate—Turn it, straighten it, crop out the background.
  • Auto Correct—Automatic, one-click, optimal lighting and contrast adjustment.
  • Exposure—Change the brightness of the photo.
  • Red-Eye Removal—Removes red eyes caused by some camera flashes.
  • Touchup—Remove scratches and other imperfections.
  • Saturation—Ramp up the colors to blinding brightness, dampen them down to black and white, or anywhere in between.
  • White Balance—Ever notice how people look different inside an office with the ugly fluorescent tubes, as opposed to outside on a bright sunny day? Adjust the white balance and you change the type of lighting in the photo.
  • Highlight—The brightest parts of a photo are the highlights. This control lets you brighten or darken just the brightest part of the photo, without affecting the darker parts (we call those the shadows).
  • Fill Light—If you take a shot facing into the sun, your subject can end up too dark due to the camera’s automatic exposure adjustment. Fill Light brightens the dark area without overbrightening the background.
  • Sharpen—It’s like putting in your contacts. Suddenly everything comes more into focus.
  • Soft Focus—It’s like taking your contacts out. Soft Focus creates a subtle blur for artistic effect.
  • Hue—This one changes all the colors in a photo at once.
  • Black & White—Control how the colors are converted when you change a photo to black and white.
  • Tint—Imagine instead of black and white, you want red and white, or pale brown and white for that old Western look.
  • Sketch—Makes any photo look like you drew it yourself.
  • Distort—Stretch, twist, bulge specific areas of your photos.

March 06, 2008

Pattern Library for Interaction Design

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While creating a complicated form or multi-step Indicators or want to know different type of form validation or visual framework, its always interesting when we look at the pattern libraries used. Below are the list of website which has some nice collection of interaction patterns. For each pattern - get the answer on what?, when to use it?, why and how?

October 29, 2007

WAP Design Course: London & NYC, December 2007

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Scott Weis will be teaching a "WAP Design" full-day course in London and New York this December, and to get 10% discount on the course fee (Discount Code: IXDA).

This course is for designers who want to know how to design for today's phones, using today's mobile browsers. It is filled with examples and exercises geared to ready designers for immediate success.

WAP Design includes XHTML, CSS, and .mobi issues in a designer-focused course covering the following topics:

  • WAP Overview
  • WAP, including XHTML, CSS, and .mobi
  • Successful and Unsuccessful WAP Sites
  • Requirements Gathering for Design
  • Competitive Analysis of Desktop and Mobile Web Sites
  • Mobile Design Patterns
  • Expert Design Guidelines
  • WAP Design Toolbox
  • Wireframing
  • Paper Prototyping
London: 3 December, 2007
New York: 11 December, 2007
Register: http://usableproducts.com/training
Discount Code: IXDA (10%)

Scott Weis
President, Usable Products Company: http://usableproducts.com,
+1.212.929.8599
Author, Handheld Usability: http://handheldusability.com

October 25, 2007

Interaction Design course in IIT Mumbai

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IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) is one of the prestegious institute in World. IIT is offering course on Interaction Design.


Is this course for Interaction design or Industrial design. Because in your subject line it says Interaction design but the application brochure says Industrial design. Even the sample questions are more related to Industrial design.

The MDes course very much covers interaction design. The details of the courses for interaction design masters are at http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/academics/Interaction-design-course-credits.html .

"Industrial Design Centre" or IDC is the name of the design department in IIT Bombay. Currently, we offer four masters programmes in product design, visual communication design, interaction design and animation, in addition to a PhD in design.

The Common Entrance Exam for Design or CEED is a common design aptitude test for PG entrance to not only these four programmes in IDC, IIT Bombay but also to design programmes in IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IISc Bangalore and IIT Kanpur. CEED tests things like visual perception ability, drawing skills, logical reasoning, creativity and communication skills which are common to all streams of design.

Like GATE, CAT etc. CEED is only a qualifying exam, and those who pass CEED need to apply for specific disciplines in specific institutes. In case of interaction design in IITB, selected candidates are called to appear for another test followed by an interview. This second test is more specific to interaction design.

Please contact Mr.Anirudha Joshi for more details. Anirudha Joshi is a faculty member in the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay.

October 23, 2007

Open University : People-centred designing

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One of the primary considerations in all fields of design is 'usability' and, increasingly, the phenomenon of 'user-centred design'.This unit provides you with an introduction to the principles and procedures of design usability through the critical evaluation of selected products.

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2830&ONEML=OLNL05&MEDIA=OLN507

MDes in Interaction Design and CEED 2008

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IIT Mumbai - Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai -
The Industrial Design Centre offers a 2-year Masters programme in Interaction Design: http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/academics/interaction-design.html

The admission process for the next year has already started. The CEEDexam is one criterion for admission. Please note that the last datefor issue of application and last date of receipt of completedapplications for CEED 2008 is 29th October 2007. More details are at http://www.iitb.ac.in/ceedapp/ceedAdmissionLinks.jsp and http://www.iitb.ac.in/~pge/ceed2k8/brochure.pdf

March 07, 2007

Usability Courses and Training

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Human Factors International is one of the popular institute where one can learn the learn techniques and methods to create the best possible user experience for websites and applications. HFI also teaches to a organization in group or also to individuals. By looking at the training materials, I could say that, they could able to combine the theory with real-world examples.

How good you are in Web Design Usability, check out here.

Certified usability Analyst - If you could able to answer 10 out of 10 or 9 out of 10 in above test, then you are good enough to attend the test. Human Factors website has lots of materials to cover and you will asked questions in following areas -

  • User-Centered Analysis and Conceptual Design
  • The Science and Art of Effective Web and Application Design
  • Practical Usability Testing
  • Putting Research into Practice