Posts Tagged ‘Web’

Web applications are all the rage these days as cloud computing becomes the standard way of doing things. Whether it’s Facebook apps, Web clients, Flash, Adobe Air Apps or anything else that’s becoming ubiquitous, a huge part of the development of these applications is design and what you an learn from the design of quality web applications is priceless. In this series of posts, I’ll spotlight five well known web applications and share the design aspects that I think make each unique.

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There’s been an explosion of resource, recruitment and tutorial sites, in Part 2 we continue our review of the biggest and the best of them, analyze their brands and make suggestions for their growth. Make sure you read Part 1 before continuing.

05. PSD Tuts (Tie)

Founder(s) – Unknown
History – PSDTUTS is a blog/photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain in a friendly, approachable manner.
About the Brand – A strong thematic cohesiveness throughout their family of websites.
Alexa.com Ranking – 14,664
Other Properties – audiojungle.com, flashden.com
Ideas for Growth – Their team has successfully created a design and tutorial blog, the audio search engine and a monetized flash resource site. They should take the business model they used for Flashden.net and apply it to resources for AfterEffects or Premier. Alternatively they could create a portal for scripts like Hotscripts.com

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There’s been an explosion of free design resources made available thanks to a number of sites that offer freebies and related tips. In this two part in-depth look, I examine the biggest brands in design blogs and suggest what they can do to make their brands even bigger and better.

This list was compiled and ordered by relevancy as well as their influence on the design community at large. I looked at each groups branding, site design, logo design, the strength of content and resources offered. I also looked at the number of properties each had. Alexa rankings were used to estimate site traffic although a high Alexa ranking did not always equal a higher ranking on this list. I did all this so as not to appear to be biased towards any particular blog or group.

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Some days ago I learn the name Presdo from a friend of mine. When I dig more about it on the Internet I found the application is actually initiated by Eric Ly, who was one of a co-founder of LinkedIn. So I could not wait to take a tour of the application.

Yes friends, its another web application and I must say its a killer of all other available scheduling/calender web applications. Just go to the site of Presdo and type what you want to do and when (you can set the time later though) and click on the DO button. For example I wrote "Meet Jowad on Sunday 9.50PM at Redisson Hotel." Now you will be taken to a form where all the fields will be filled up based on the given sentance, which you can change if you want to.

Hmm, smart application. Presdo lets you pick a location by searching through local listings on a Google map Or you can look at a list view of nearby places instead. You can pick one near you, near the person you are meeting, or in between. (It helps if you first register with your own email and location.) When you are satisfied with what you have, you can “Send Invite” to the other person. And the other person will get an email with the details and a link back to Presdo, where they can change the time or place.

Once you are done, you can even export the meeting to your calendar (Presdo supports Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, and Yahoo Calendar).