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This portion of the Premium Design Works website is written by Mike Sinkula for the Web Design & Development students at Seattle Central College and the Human Centered Design & Engineering students at the University of Washington.

26 Comments:

1. Sage McElroy says:

   June 18, 2014 at 7:45 pm

   Placeholder images! Yay!

   http://placehold.it/

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2. christian roehr says:

   July 29, 2013 at 2:23 pm

   This site is cool: if features 50 (!) different color picking/designer sites.

   http://www.printmag.com/article/50-best-color-sites-for-designers/

   Have fun with bubbly, splashy, sedate moody colors !

   Christian

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3. Ken Gard says:

   July 16, 2013 at 3:04 pm

   http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/07/shopping-carts-gallery-examples-and-good-practices/

   This is a great link on how to create a good shopping card visual.

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   • Ken Gard says:

     July 16, 2013 at 3:06 pm

     Make that “cart”

4. Will Parker says:

   April 20, 2013 at 2:40 pm

   Free book on product and service design from 37Signals.com, the folks who created Basecamp, one of the most popular business collaboration tools in use today.

   http://gettingreal.37signals.com/

   Read it online or sign up for their mailing list (non-spammy) to download the PDF version.

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5. Will Parker says:

   April 5, 2013 at 12:21 pm

   Are you a techie? Of course you are.

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   By the end of WEB202, you’ll be ready to repurpose your class coursework directly into a technical bookstore.

   Have fun.

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6. Peter T says:

   April 3, 2013 at 5:45 pm

   For students:

   Fair Use

   http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

   § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use

   Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use
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   (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or
   research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether
   the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the
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   (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use
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   (2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

   (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to
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   (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of
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   The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of
   fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above
   factors.

   Source: U.S. Copyright Office

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7. Lenny Peters says:

   September 5, 2012 at 7:53 am

   Good read on how some things still are in practice and what we can do to think about them while making “carts”…

   http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/04/the-state-of-e-commerce-checkout-design-2012/

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8. Will Parker says:

   July 11, 2012 at 2:46 pm

   Freebie:

   Customizable CSS3 animated on-off switch

   http://proto.io/freebies/

   Proto.io is a pretty good online prototyping tool, btw.

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9. Lenny Peters says:

   July 2, 2012 at 10:15 pm

   It’s not the only website I read honest…

   Good Form Validation Discussion on Shopping Cart, Checkout process…

   http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/27/form-field-validation-errors-only-approach/

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10. Will Parker says:

    June 25, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    SurveyMonkey.com

    An easy(ish) way to get minimal user research

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11. Will Parker says:

    June 25, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Ronco Spray-On Usability

    http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability

    Why developers should never be trusted with your user interface.

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12. Will Parker says:

    June 25, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    Eightshape Unify

    A comprehensive documentation system for UX design project from the pros at Eightshapes.

    Templates, workflows, tools

    http://unify.eightshapes.com

    Samples of documents used created using the Unify system

    http://unify.eightshapes.com/about-the-system/samples/

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13. Will Parker says:

    June 25, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    Excellent UX & web design book/ebook publishers

    http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books

    Example titles:

    Storytelling for User Experience
    Card Sorting
    Prototyping
    Design is the Problem
    Mental Models
    Eye Tracking the User Experience
    Web Form Design

    See also http://rosenfeldmedia.com/deals/
    They offer frequent deep discounts

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14. phillip says:

    May 22, 2012 at 5:22 pm

    http://www.jqueryui.com

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15. Lenny Peters says:

    April 12, 2012 at 10:55 am

    Great read on eCommerce sites that have problems. Seems like it all falls back to being easy, straightforward and simple in design.

    http://mashable.com/2012/04/12/ecommerce-mistakes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

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16. Kevin Lineback says:

    June 27, 2011 at 10:03 am

    Here is the tutorial for making a tabbed content area with CSS and jQuery that I used on my ITC200 project.

    http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/how-to-create-a-slick-tabbed-content-area/

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17. Sara Smiley says:

    June 17, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    I used ‘Example 2’ of this JQuery tutorial for my thumbnail rollovers:
    http://cssglobe.com/post/1695/easiest-tooltip-and-image-preview-using-jquery

    And this is the JQuery slideshow I used:
    http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/pager3.html

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18. Jose Mayorquin says:

    June 16, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    I got the slide show for my ITC200 final from these guys. http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/
    Mine looks a little different because I broke into the images folder and styled the buttons.

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19. Jennifer says:

    June 9, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    This is a great tutorial for Simple Tabs w/ CSS & jQuery:

    http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/simple-tabs-w-css-jquery/

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20. Tim Garret says:

    April 7, 2011 at 6:30 pm

    This review of the e-Commerce WordPress plugin was written by a professional programmer who uses Magento. He also discusses code quality.

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21. Deb says:

    May 7, 2009 at 9:47 am

    Here’s the website I showed in class:

    http://www.growandmake.com/

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    • Will Johnston says:

      April 29, 2010 at 12:51 pm

      Hi Deb,

      I’m curious to learn why you showed our site in your class?

      -Will

    • Mike Sinkula says:

      April 29, 2010 at 2:44 pm

      Will,

      She thought it was good.

    • Will Johnston says:

      April 29, 2010 at 3:54 pm

      Great. I’m about to do a home page re-design, so would love any feedback. We’re going to have more of a blog/twitter feed focus.

22. Deb says:

    April 20, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Heres a shopping site that takes customer choice to the n’th degree.

    http://instructables.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/

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