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The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS — Jon Tan ?.

Sizes In Webdesign: Em Vs. Px.

Over the years a range of GUI’s have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more.

We’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80’s.

[From: Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 | Webdesigner Depot]

Vexel art is a digital art that is an entirely pixel-based form of raster art that imitates the vector graphics technique, but is distinguished from normal vector graphics or raster images. “Vexel” itself is a mixture of two words ‘Vector’ and ‘Pixel’. Vexel designs are composed by using multiple layered shapes. It can be done in Photoshop, but vexel designs are not limited to only Photoshop; essentially, it can be done with any image editing software that has a good Pen Tool.

[From: Beautiful Examples of Vexel Artworks and Tutorials | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine]

For this post we tried to digg deep to find the best selection of free and/or open source Mac applications that will help you be a more efficient designer.

[From: 25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine]

Talking about GUUUI – Visio – the interaction designer’s nail gun (3rd edition)

How to use Visio for rapid prototyping – now with scrolling pages and sketchy interface widgets