A set of high resolution headphones in a PSD Layered file. The file is at 300 dpi and is layered. The file’s background and color is customizable. You may use this headphones PSD file for both commercial and persona works, however you may not resell or redistribute as your own.
Here are practical tips to help you find the perfect web designer for your next project. #webdesigner
When Hiring Think Partnership
Your next Vendor / Client relationship should go beyond invoices to a partnership based on mutual trust. It’s never a company’s goal to hire the wrong vendor, but it happens. Lack of online understanding, undeserved trust, and lack of accountability contribute to bad decisions that can be irreversible and cost you lots of money.
Say No to Bad Code
Moreover, it can also affect your ability as a company to do everyday business when tied to a technology that is directly connected to only one particular vendor. So in order to make changes, updates, add content, add products, or do business online a company is forced to utilize a particular vendor only.
Ensure Code Portability
Most vendors have a purposeful technology preference. The larger vendors prefer complex, proprietary code in order to keep a client (you) locked in. This is a common practice that SWD labels as unethical. So as an example, a vendor has a flavor of technology being used in-house and that’s the same technology you will be forced to adopt. Vendors, most times are not tech-agnostic and that is a problem. Be aware of that.
Say No to Outsourcing
Often times vendors hire Latin American, Russian, Indian, or even Chi-com resources naively believing that security is an important aspect to outsourced vendors. A company in America can’t really enforce anything outside of America. Nor can a company ensure code wouldn’t be shared, duplicated, or simply resold or contain malware. Some vendors even present the work of others as their own. The security implications out weigh any cost benefit a company might gain by setting up a risky vendor relationship overseas.
Why Companies Outsource
They don’t have the skill-set. Many large and small vendors alike do not have the in-house skill-set. When hiring a vendor make sure in writing that they have in-house talent that can deliver Information Architecture, Web Design, Code, Usability, and SEO. Trust them when they say they can deliver from within their organization, but verify it in writing with an enforcement component. Can a project be successful with using multiple consultants, and agencies? Yes, but apart from the obvious managerial overhead to coordinate vendors, it’s very costly.
Good luck!
Download this DB Icon PSD file. It’s layered, and is 600px x 600px.
This database icon was created in Photoshop and includes multiple layers. The original layers are all easily customizable and easy to use.
The maximum file scale is 600px x 600px and 72 dpi. Photoshop is required to use this file.
You may use this file for personal and commercial works, but may not take credit for this or resell this in any way. Enjoy.
There’s a lot of hate out there for Apple in the whole iPhone vs Samsung world we live in and I have an idea why.
Time to remember the past to know the future. I remember carrying around a Motorola brick and thinking to myself this is so cool. It was the top of the line. That Moto was the best technology had to offer and back to the future was still a popular movie. “Going steady” was a term to ask a girl to be your girlfriend and checkerboard vans finally became uncool. All of which I have had, done, and worn. That was the past and this is now.
I have been using Apple products since there were Apple products. So as a matter of disclosure, I am an Apple user. I am not a devotee and Apple doesn’t do everything right in my book. They only do most things right.
I am amused when condescended to by snarky Samsung users. Jeez, it’s like a cult with them. So I am writing this post to blame it all on Apple. Yeaup, it’s Apple’s fault and here’s how.
Here are the top 5 phones from 2007 (Yes, I know there were other phones, but these actually mattered):
Top Mobile Phones of 2007: LG Shine, Sidekick 3, Nokia N93i, LG enV, iPhone
Samsung’s success within the mobile phone space is due in large part to what Apple did in 2007. To be sure it’s not entirely the reason, but keep reading. You can even hear the pundits now saying, Apple is dead. I remember Micheal Dell saying the same thing. It was amusing then too. Anyway, do you remember 2007? Where were you? What phone were you using, because if we go by the numbers you were in all probability using a mobile phone with either a hinge on it and or a plastic screen.
What can we glean by looking at the above line up? For one thing most of the products of today look more like an iPhone than any other mobile device at the time. Oh, but surely that is a coincidence? No. It’s not. Please note in 2007 the “Google’s Switch” had not yet been brought to market and was built by guess who, Samsung. The phone looked like one of those digital picture frames I re-gifted that same year.
But wait there’s more
Samsung 2007 Mobile Phones
And what pray tell was Samsung doing within the mobile market in 2007, aside from trying to create mobile phones out of picture frames? See line to the left for an idea.
So rather than pay some pasty emo on a commercial or “sponsor” a website “tech writer” ragging on Apple devotees (of which I am not) or products, maybe Samsung could look at what they were building then in 2007 as opposed to what they build now 2013. Seems to me Apple is to blame and other companies simply followed along out of necessity.
Because what they brought to market sucked. When discussing iPhone vs Samsung one shouldn’t suspend facts. And the fact is Samsung was bringing sub par phones to market. If that weren’t the case why don’t you own a flip or slider phone? Instead we all own a mobile device that looks remarkably like that mobile device made by Apple in 2007. Anyone that is fair minded can see it’s Apple’s fault. Apple changed the way we used and thought about mobile devices. How dare they. Rather than blame Apple, maybe a thank you is in order.
SWD created 32 PSD Icons layered, with effects, and embedded vectors. The PSD Icons file is small and the bulk of the file is embedded within the vector layer. Please note, that in order to customize the vector layer in the PSD Icons file you’ll need Adobe Illustrator. Or you may simply just scale to whatever size in Photoshop as the vectors are easily scaled.
This was our first try at creating icons for public sale and it was a great experience. We hope to create more icons for purchase or for free download. A lot of time was spent making sure the quality for every single icon within the PSD Icons file was top quality. These are aren’t clip arts traced in Illustrator.
There was some discussion as to whether to create a layer for each icon, but seeing how to customize the icons you would need illustrator we embedded the icons in a vector layer. The user can simply go in and either make changes, copy paste from illustrator into a new layer or just duplicate layers in Photoshop.
Here are the icons in the PSD Icons File:
With the effects disabled in the PSD Icons file:
PSD Icons in IllustratorOne of the great things about vectors is that you can scale to as large or as small as you want without losing quality.
The icons created were created in Adobe Illustrator then imported to Photoshop. Again, having illustrator is important when customizing the vector paths itself.
Terms: Please enjoy the file under the following terms. You are free to use this file for personal and commercial use. Should you purchase this file you do not have the right to claim this as your own work or resell this or redistribute this file. We work very hard and this is our intellectual property not yours.
Simon Urbina is a Web Design expert, App developer, and Information Architect with 15+ years of Internet experience. He started as a Graphic Designer & Illustrator in the late 80's and made the transition to web. He's a talented Web Design Consultant that understands Business Strategy, User Experience, and Technology.