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The Golden Ratio = 1.6180339887
The Golden Ratio, a mathematics constantIn mathematics , means if the ratio between the sum of two quantities and the larger one is the same as the ratio between the larger one and the smaller
For thousands of years artists, designers, architects, etc. have either intentionally or unintentionally used a common ratio in their work that is aesthetically pleasing.
It is really a strange and amazing number, everything works best, looks great with this number. Jarel Remick gave us a very good tutorial on how to use the golden ration in web design!

It is really a must-read tutorial for every web designer, 1.6180339887, really a very essential and quick way to produce nice design!

With perfect timing the drop of hot glass falls slowly, it stops slowly as the thinner parts gets colder and hardens. All Jewelry is handmade in glass and leather
For every piece made, 3 Euro goes to UNICEF’s water project in Ethiopia.

We are now creating a community website, weloveblack.com
It collects different things that is beautiful, gorgeous in black.

Hopes it is something good for the people who loves the color black.

整一個website只係一個website，一個blog就只係一個blog。
而點樣可以將個website, blog，幫你搵錢，就係Online Marketing。

以下付上一條片，係前排係Dubai既一個presentation, 由三個係攝影界的influential leaders講關於Blogging, Social Media。



以下就將收錄左三位既presentation的抄錄,共有四個部份,好多好多字，不過有好多野好值得參考。
Pt 1 - David Nightingale
Pt 2 - David Hobby (aka Strobist)
Pt 3 - Chase Jarvis
Pt 4 - Nightingale, Hobby, Javis, Q&A

香港典型設計。

乜野叫做works既design，就係做到個media要做既野，係商業上黎講，基本上有99%都係對顧客做既野，要個design work,最基本就係要比你既target customer知到你想做乜，你比樣野佢睇，佢睇完無發應，達唔到你想要既效果就係唔works啦。而係website design方面，世上有一千九百幾億個網站，佢地去到你個網站，至少都要知到呢講網站想講乜。所以其中一個令到Design Works 既重要因素就係要User Focused，從用家角度去出發。

以下有１０個要點，很值得參考!

1. Clear and Locial Navigation
2. Clear Communication
3. Targeted, Focused Content
4. Style that Suits the Audience
5. Lack of Interference
6. Ease of Contact
7. Readability
8. Not Focused on the Website Owner’s Wants
9. Anticipation of User Issues/Questions
10. Accessibility

下次做website design果陣，可想想請十點，有百利而無一害aR!

Amazing Photos by Jason Hawkes

做Design，有Job梗係好，不過千萬唔好亂接！~
Famous Web Designer, Zeldman就分享左２０個徵兆，如果見到呢d野，請三思~~~~

---Below content from zeldman.com--

• Client asks who designed your website.
• Client shows you around the factory, introducing you to all his employees. Then, behind closed doors, tells you: “If you do a bad job with this website, I’m going to have to let these people go.”
• Client takes six months to respond to your proposal, but doesn’t change his due date.
• At beginning of get-acquainted meeting, client informs you that someone has just bought his company.
• Client, who manufactures Russian nesting dolls, demands to know how many Russian nesting doll sites you have designed.
• At meeting to which you have traveled at your own expense, client informs you that he doesn’t have a budget per se, but is open to “trading services.”
• Client can’t articulate a single desired user goal. He also can’t articulate a business strategy, an online strategy, a reason for the site’s existence, or a goal or metric for improving the website. In spite of all that, client has designed his own heavily detailed wireframes.
• As get-acquainted meeting is about to wrap, the guy at the end of the table, who has been quiet for an hour and 55 minutes, suddenly opens his mouth.
• Leaning forward intensely, client tells you he knows his current site “sucks” and admits quite frankly that he doesn’t know what to do about it. He asks how you would approach such a problem. As you begin to speak, he starts flipping through messages on his Blackberry.
• Client announces that he is a “vision guy,” and will not be involved in the “minutia” of designing the website. He announces that his employee, the client contact, will be “fully empowered” to approve each deliverable.
• On the eve of delivery, the previously uninvolved “vision guy” sends drawings of his idea of what the web layout should look like. These drawings have nothing to do with the user research you conducted, nor with the approved recommendations, nor with the approved wireframes, nor with the approved final design, nor with the approved final additional page layouts, nor with the approved HTML templates that you are now integrating into the CMS.
• Your favorite client, for whom you have done fine work in the past, gets a new boss.
• The client wants web 2.0 features but cannot articulate a business strategy or user goal.
• Shortly before you ship, the company fires your client. An overwhelmed assistant takes the delivery. The new site never launches. Two years later, a new person in your old client’s job emails you to invite you to redesign the site.
• Client sends a 40-page RFP, including committee-approved flow diagrams created in Microsoft Art.
• Client tells you he has conducted a usability study with his wife.
• Client begins first meeting by making a big show of telling you that you are the expert. You are in charge, he says: he will defer to you in all things, because you understand the web and he does not. (Trust your uncle Jeffrey: this man will micromanage every hair on the project’s head.)
• As approved, stripped-down “social networking web application” site is about to ship, a previously uninvolved marketing guy starts telling you, your client, and your client’s boss that the minimalist look “doesn’t knock me out.” A discussion of what the site’s 18-year-old users want, backed by research, does not dent the determination of the 52-year-old marketing guy to demand a rethink of the approved design to be more appealing to his aesthetic sensibility.
• While back-end work is finishing, client rethinks the architecture.
• Client wants the best. Once you tell him what the best costs, he asks if you can scale back. You craft a scaled-back proposal, but, without disclosing a budget or even hinting at what might be viable for him, the client asks if you can scale it down further. After you’ve put 40 hours into back-and-forth negotiation, client asks if you can’t design just the home page in Photoshop.

好正既Ad~^^
特別係第一張，樂而不淫，恰到好處~~~
Up to 12 faces detection~~hahahahha~~