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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

Talking about 5 Free WP Themes From The WOOTHEMES Club | Dzinepress

Welcome to our WordPress WOOTHEMES offering 5 free themes, at WooThemes you will find some of the most cutting edge WordPress templates, packed full of features, presented beautifully with clean layouts, slick color palettes and neat typography.

10 Super Useful Tools for Choosing the Right Color Palette | Web Design Ledger

With Color Wizard you can submit a base color and it generates color schemes based on your color’s complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations.

[From: 10 Super Useful Tools for Choosing the Right Color Palette | Web Design Ledger]