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Find themes in the tumblr theme garden or publish your own. Learn how easy it is to make themes for Tumblr. Share your theme with 25,394,118 Tumblr users. Leave attribution in your theme, and watch your traffic and popularity boom!

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, April 17, 2006: F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website's words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school. In our new eyetracking study, we recorded how 232 users looked at thousands of Web pages.

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Cargo is a creative publishing platform where everything, from the ever-changing visual appearance of people's personal websites to the user interface, is built around the work shared by its members. Cargo's goal is to dramatically increase the accessibility and exposure of creative individuals on the Internet, while aspiring to build a networked context that will contribute to the culture as a whole.

A particular aspect I admire is that membership the Cargo Collective is either via invitation from existing members (who may invite 5 people), or acceptance of a written request to become part of the collective.

"Online community and social website where people communicate through visual symbols, logos, icons, or avatars. These images can tell a story, be a personal logo, or a new language. Users can purchase customizable t-shirts, stickers, writstbands, bracelets, hats, and mugs. Mikons supports charities, benevolence groups, and causes." --Another interesting way to promote your brand identity.

A lot of great designers start simple…with a pencil and paper. No Macbook Pro, no Photoshop, just a #2 and Mead. Interface designers brianstorm their idea on paper only to apply it to Photoshop or a similar graphic application. I've compiled some great web design sketches for you to be inspired by.

Eye tracking has recently been debated on many fronts, with a particular focus on the ways people misuse it, and how some use eye tracking only as a way to "wow" clients. In our experience, however, it's invaluable in bringing to light key findings that are otherwise unattainable through other user testing methods.

An online community that lets artists showcase and sell their work. Prints and mails for the artist. Similar to zazzle but from what I have seen a higher quality user base. Manufactures prints, iphone skins, tshirts etc.