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In this post we release a free Facebook GUI PSD Kit, designed by SurgeWorks and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The main idea behind the kit is to speed up the prototyping of Facebook application UIs and Facebook fan pages, thus sparing you from drawing all the comps and letting you customize all the texts, buttons and data as you need. As usual, the kit is free to use in all projects, without any restrictions.

The kit brings the Facebook vector icon and logo. Also, since the focus of this resource are the UI elements, it brings a main window with the header, menu and the chat window for you to set up your realistic mock-ups. Plus all the modal components, comment boxes, buttons, message boxes, tabs, etc. All the components are full layered, built using vectors and blending options, so that scaling and editing the objects will not be a problem. 继续阅读…

为什么在facebook交友会更容易？facebook与传统的BSP（Blog Service Provider）到底有什么不同？是因为它有横竖两个导航吗？是因为它有个主人信息的聚合页面吗？ Facebook为什么成功？又有哪些不足？Facebook商业上的成功使得它混乱的设计成了皇帝的新装，即使觉得看不懂也不敢去说。让我们拨开网页上那些纷繁的视觉表现，来看看藏在网页背后骨架—信息构架（IA Information Architecture），我们将获得一个全新视角，这种种疑问将迎刃而解。

传统的博客服务提供商（Blog Service Provider，简称BSP），比如：Qzone、新浪博客、网易博客…他们提供的博客服务，不仅仅是为每一位注册用户提供了一个属于自己的blog空间，还有用于bloger间彼此交流的平台。也就是说，信息构架是：个人空间+社区平台。

“个人空间+社区平台”是什么样子的？

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