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QuoteRobot: Helping Designers Create Quotes & Win Jobs

Posted January 4, 2010

My good friend Jon and I have been working over the holidays on a dream of mine I had a couple of years ago called QuoteRobot. It's a web app we're building that will help designers and coders create quotes and win jobs, and we're both pretty excited about it.

I figured I'd post about it and show a …

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20 Free Handmade Buttons & UI Elements In One PSD

Posted December 29, 2009

Sometimes all it takes is seeing a single design element on a web site to inspire me on a project - that's why I've created this PSD of UI elements and buttons. Hopefully it will inspire you and give you at least one element to build future projects with. Each of the elements is in it's own Photosho…

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Art vs. Design, Passion vs. Cash

Posted March 20, 2009

Over the last 3 months I've been struggling in my mind with the balance between doing what I love, and making a living as a responsible adult.

The 9 to 5 Dilemma

Back in January of 08 I joined up with the Viviti team as the only UI designer on board - it was fresh, exciting, and I told myself I'd gi…

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4 Great UI Designs for E-Commerce Web Sites

Posted November 28, 2008

E-commerce is one of those areas where great design really adds to the user experience. Whether it's injecting some extra excitement into the shopping sensation, or presenting a lot of information in an easy to digest manner, we have our work cut out for us as designers while creating UI for e-comme…

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Some Web Design Inspiration

Posted September 18, 2008

I found a great blog site today on CSS Mania (a nice resource for inspiration) by author Jason Bradbury and thought I'd share it.

Jason Bradbury

I love how you can change the color of some of the items, and how the background changes on reload. The PNG transparencies up top work beautifully, though …

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Shawn Adrian is a 30 year old freelance designer in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Check out his other project QuoteRobot:

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