Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Art And Design

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, usually involving imaginative or technical skill. Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields. In some cases the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, cowboy coding and graphic design) is also considered to be design.

  • How to learn to Design & Develop for iOS Devices like iPhone & iPad

    Here are two free ways to learn to design & develop for iOS devices like iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch.

    Apple Developer Videos

    I know you definitely know Apple’s Website but there is one website dedicated to developers only called developer.apple.com

    As you may know Apple has ‘World Wide Developer Conference’ i.e. WWDC every year dedicated only to Developers on Apple Platform. Lucky thing is that Apple releases it’s WWDC keynote & learning session videos on web through their own developer site which is mentioned above.

    To access those videos you have to have ‘Apple ID’.

    That means you have to register on ‘Apple Developer Website’.

    Videos are available on web to view or You can download it to your iTunes application.

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    Here is iPhone Development videos on iTunes

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  • Wondering How to give design Interview? Here are few Design Interview Notes that will help you to prepare for the same

    Here are few words about Design Job Interview preparation from my own experiences.

    Here are my two earlier blog post that will allow you to prepare Resume & Portfolio

    1. How to write your Design Resume?
    2. Creating & Choosing Your First Design Portfolio Format & updating it over the years

    Details of Preparation

    • Prepare yourself for interview a day before on interview date
    • Cycle through in your mind what are your capabilities, your professional goal in life etc.
    • Go through your portfolio to see it is in perfect order for presentation
    • Read your resume to see there is no spelling mistakes or something missing from it etc.
    • Preparation can also start with having own domain & personal dedicated blog & portfolio website that showcase your work handsomely.

    Preparing specific job related Resume
    It’s not bad idea to have separate resume for different domains of Design dedicated to each i.e. If you work in this three domain called Web Design, Animation Film Design & Graphic Design then you can prepare three different resumes dedicated to each three domains.

    Preparing specific job related Portfolio
    If you have three types of resumes dedicated three different domains that can also go with three differently designed ‘Portfolio’ dedicated to three separate domain of design. e.g If you are going for post of Web Designer then surely you can show Web Design Portfolio & Web Design Resume to recruiter to tell him you have mastered the web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, ActionScript & even design tools like Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop etc.

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  • How College Drop Outs changed the Design itself

    Just Today (i.e. 25th August 2011) after coming home I read the News through RSS feeds of respective companies…

    The big News was, “Steve Jobs Resigns from Apple’s CEO Position”

    First though come to my mind was, There will be no more Apple Keynote Events Starring Steve Jobs no more breath taking announcements or new product launch… he dominated style called Marketing like Steve Jobs, A Stetment like – ‘It Just Works!’, ‘And there is one more thing’

    So I sat down & made one study about Charisma of these people from silicon Valley called Steve Jobs 7 Bill Gates. So, here is small study,

    A college dropout like Steve jobs has contributed to design industry…

    Steve Jobs – Apple CEO & Founder
    After founding Apple in 1976, A company dedicated to create Personal Computer revolution with Apple 1, Apple 2 & Lisa & then reinventing personal computer with Macintosh at 1984 with Graphical User Interface was milestone for Personal Computing Revolution from which Designing on Computer started & took center stage.

    Here is image of Steve Jobs with First Macintosh

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    After Returning to Apple on 1997 after gap of 17 years, apple’s product line with great Industrial design has evolved immensely with first iMac, iBooks, & Power Books. Today Apple Dominates Personal Computing era with their MacBook Pro, iMac & Mac Pro.

    Today’s iMac Design is so immensely revolutionary that competitors can’t resist or even think beyond design of iMac’s Design

    Here is iMac’s Design:

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  • Web Design & Development on Macintosh through OpenSource or Free Apps

    Here are the list tool sets you will need if you want to design & develop website on mac with opensource or free apps. As you may know Mac is it self based on opensource Unix platform.

    So here is the list of Web Design & Development OpenSource Apps available on Mac,

    CMS (Content Management System) or Blogging Platform

    WordPress

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    WordPress is opensource CMS software for Blogging, Even This website is created with WordPress. WordPress has massive support with large amount of plugins to easily integrating Google Analytics, Google Adsens, Feedburner to even having Image slideshow & Image Lightbox

    Web Server

    MAMP

    MAMP
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  • Animation Film Making Notes

    Here is the collection of ‘Animation Film Making Notes’, Notes are collected from Wikipedia, Wikibooks & SIGGRAPH. I found it helpful so sharing it with you all…

    SIGGRAPH Notes on Animation Film Making by John Lasseter & Ollie Johnston

    Tricks to Animating Characters with a Computer
    Reference: These notes come from Course 1 at SIGGRAPH 94, “Animation Tricks”.
    This are the Notes by Disney & Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter, he is the first animator to work on 3D computer animation, “The Aventures of André and Wally B.,” He is Exucutive Producer & Director of Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Cars, and Cars 2.

    Animation Notes from Ollie Johnston
    Reference: These notes come from Course 1 at SIGGRAPH 94, “Animation Tricks”.
    Ollie Johnston is Animator from Disney, He is one of famous Disney’s Nine Old Men. He Co-Authored with Frank Thomas the Book ‘Disney Animation –  Illusion of Life’. He has documented 12 principles of Animation in the same book.

    Wikipedia Notes on Animation Film Making

    Animation Techniques
    This documents differant Animation Techniques under one page It has great documentation by WiKi

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  • Design Tools Comparison

    Today I decided to compare different design tools or computer applications available in market to just to differentiate them with each other

    Before even talking about Computer Design Applications you can guess what big companies are involved in to developing them, examples are Adobe, Autodesk, Apple, Microsoft

    Sometimes as Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Animator is really hard to understand what tools to choose before even starting a design process but you have to keep in mind that tool are just tools not an design solution that will dictate your design process but it will just help you to do your job done.

    Comparison of Design Tools can be made on following basis:

    1. Price
    2. Ease of Use
    3. Popularity
    4. Type (Raster or Vector or Voxel)
    5. Apps’ Availability over particular Computer Operating Systems
    6. Compatibility with other file format & tools
    7. Features

    Price
    Price of paid apps like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator are around $ 1,000. Paid apps may cost too much to your pocket if you are starting a fresh as a freelancer. But there are other opensource apps may just cost nothing to you pocket & save lot of investment in digital assets like apps

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  • How to write your Design Resume?

    Sometimes I feel every designer should appoint somebody with good writing skills or copywriter to write right & perfect ‘Resume’ matching to his business profile.

    In today’s internet age There are professional networking sites like Linkedin, Job sites like Naukri.com & Monster.com or Even Multinational Companies like Apple, Adobe & Even Facebook & Twitter has their own Job listings available on their site where you can register & upload your resume.

    So chances of Grabbing Job Online are high as far as networking & internet goes…

    I would suggest go for Microsoft Word Document Format for creating your first digital Resume… i.e. ‘Your-Name-Resume.doc’

    You Have to keep following points in mind while writing your Design Resume:

    1. Keep SEO (Search Engine Optimization) intact so that people can search your resume with right keywords
    2. Use Titles
    3. Use Priorities Structure for better Resume
    4. Use Font like Verdana & better Typography with line spacing & character spacing & not using lower point size fonts & use san serif fonts
    5. Don’t Use Images or Watermarks
    6. Don’t Use tables
    7. Spread your Resume only to single page
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  • What is right PC or Mac for Design i.e. Choosing Your Dream Machine to do Designing & less Computing

    Let me help you to buy your personal computer to do design…!!!

    As Apple’s Boilerplate suggest, ‘Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.’

    It all started with Macintosh & Mac Paint…

    But in decade of 90’s Microsoft’s Windows system dominated the User Interface Driven & icon & folder driven computing.

    But When you want to buy a personal computer to do design tasks in your work routine you will want to buy a better computer with great processing power, a large display to occupy big images than to just minimizing & maximizing images, with good internet & networking support, big amount of RAM, Larger capacity hard drive.

    If you go by cost factor attached to buying a personal computer then assembled computer will win the race as computer hardware will cost around $500 & installing a linux operating system will add no cost to the bill. but you have to keep in mind the Adobe doesn’t support Linux operating system so most Adobe Apps like Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash will not work & support Linux.

    Then you will say what about Dell, HP & Sony computers…??? Well don’t they just are another type of Branded Assembled Computer who are using Windows 7 Operating system???

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  • Creating & Choosing Your First Design Portfolio Format & updating it over the years

    Being in field of ‘Design’ where person identified by his work… So documenting your own work in some kind of portfolio or just collection of well designed Artworks will work for Artist & his career.

    In today’s world of digital art having portfolio in tradition form like printed artworks on fine paper sticked inside leather jacket & having own domain name & website dedicated to showcase portfolio online will build credibility to artist’s professional career

    First I will describe what details that portfolio should describe on his portfolio

    1. First Page with Introduction to Artist & his Background
    2. Title of Artwork
    3. Brief Given
    4. Method of Approaching to Work & some details
    5. Nice High Quality Screen Shots of work
    6. Nice Layout & Arrangement of Artworks
    7. Year of Design
    8. Copyright Notice
    9. Artist’s Contact Details
    10. Credits
    11. A Thank You Note

    Here we look in to two ways of building portfolio, Digitally & in Traditional printed form.

    Digital Portfolio
    A Digital Portfolio may contains of two platforms PDF (Portable Document Format) PDF is Open Standard of Document Exchange, (I will not recommend PPT – Power Point Presentation as it needs Microsoft Powerpoint installer on display machine) & HTML (Website)

    Portfolio in PDF File
    You can design portfolio in Raster Format through Photoshop & then export it to PDF or Design Portfolio in CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign & then export it in to multipage PDF. Having consistent user experience will definitely work to identify you with your artwork.

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  • Meet the Filmmaker: John Lasseter Interview

    I came around this Podcast by Apple Inc. about Meet The Filmmaker – John Lasseter.

    This Podcast is film & host by Apple Inside their own Apple Store… They even have many more listed inside iTunes Store to view & download.

    I totally liked this podcast as John Lasseter talks about his passion behind making Pixar film & how Pixar Functions & operates… He even talk about early day of Pixar as an Science Lab… He talk about how computer animation is originated through Science…

    So really It’s Interesting to watch by all Computer Animators & even by Traditional Animators as originally John Lasseter is from Traditional Disney Animation Background & alumni of Disney’s own Animation School

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