Logo Pond is a new community site where designers can upload logos and view logos created by others. Pitched as providing “identity inspiration,” the site allows you to browse logos created by other designers, leave feedback/comments on each logo, and rate logos using a 5-star system.
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Discovered a good article which discusses the trade-off and compromises required to create a great user interface.

From the article:

“Educated compromise across all UI decisions is essential to creating the best interface possible, and is, ironically, required if you are to avoid designing a compromised interface.”

Read the full article here.

The Utah PHP User Group will be meeting this Thursday, July 20th at 7 p.m. for a presentation and discussion on web user interface design and programming. It appears that the presentation will cover both designing and building great interfaces.

It seems like opportunity abounds for flat brochure-ware website designs but many designers don’t have much opportunity to design product (web application) interfaces, which requires more of a usability bent.

Click here for more info about the event.

More good entertainment if you need a break for a few seconds. This Flash movie depicts a stick figure “rebelling” against it’s animator. Pretty clever.

View the animation vs. animator Flash movie