Category Archives: Design

Oh my, what’s up at Apple…

By Young Koh | Published: October 4, 2011
I really couldn’t care less about the fact that the new iPhone that Apple introduced three months late wasn’t an iPhone5. However, as a web designer, I do seem to notice somethings more than others. Things like how they present new products on their website, design, layout, etc. If you visited apple.com today, you’ll see [...]
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Go, go Mini

By Young Koh | Published: September 12, 2011
Original concept & photography by Young Koh. (not a real Yakima ad, just having fun with photography and design…)
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Using Google Web Fonts

By Young Koh | Published: July 26, 2011
Google Web Fonts API now makes it even easier to use web fonts on websites. The days of choosing between Arial or Verdana are long gone. Hundreds of available Google Web Fonts are totally free and open source. The interface is simple and intuitive. The @font-face CSS stylesheet is automatically generated on Google’s end. All [...]
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Pretty Loaded

By Young Koh | Published: April 13, 2011
Days of Flash loading screens are long gone…, well, almost. Designers used Flash loaders to retain visitor’s attention while pre-loading bunch of other Flash stuff. Some of these short movie clips from the heydays of Flash were very creative, entertaining and enticing. PrettyLoaded is a growing collection of Flash Loaders from the past.
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Is WordPress Killing Web Design?

By Young Koh | Published: March 15, 2011
As a designer or developer if you’re simply tinkering with CSS that someone else has created or if your idea of of a layout is relocating ‘Widgets’, then your creative options may be limited. But WordPress is much more than CSS and Widgets. The real beauty of WordPress is in creating your own theme and [...]
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Man with a Movie Camera (1929) – Dziga Vertov

By Young Koh | Published: December 30, 2010
Google Video Man with a Movie Camera (1929) – Dziga Vertov
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Designing a Better Business Application

By Young Koh | Published: November 23, 2010
DESIGNING FOR VARIOUS STATES When designing a page that draws set of results from collection of data (i.e. database) the screen layout should be designed to serve three core states of the application; Normal, Empty, and Error. Normal State: is when system returns expected results. Normal state can be further broken down into two sub-states: [...]
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Photos by YK

By Young Koh | Published: November 16, 2010
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iPad Wall Clock

By Young Koh | Published: October 15, 2010
A nicely executed iPad wall clock app.
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Gloji – light bulb bottle

By Young Koh | Published: September 21, 2010
This has got to be the most brilliant and clever bottle design since Coca-Cola. The Gloji Juice bottle design is an upside down light bulb. Its shape, proportions and perceived texture fully resembles a real light bulb. The use of a traditional aluminum bottle cap is just brilliant!
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