February 2013
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June 2012
3 posts
“We moved from thinking of ourselves as designers to thinking of ourselves as...”
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CSS preprocessors with Jonathan Verrecchia →
Yelp front-end engineer Jonathan Verrecchia will demonstrate the power of CSS preprocessorsand explain why he believes these are a game changer for front-end development in this presentation given at the San Francisco HTML5 User Group.
Jonathan will cover:
CSS weaknesses
Preprocessor features
Common misconceptions
Sass, Less, or Stylus?
Workflow and techniques
Preprocessors + OOCSS
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Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and... →
Sketching and wireframing are a specialized style of drawing, used for fleshing out preliminary complex ideas, group brain-storming, a lo-fi method for evaluating interaction concepts, and as a way of roughly perfecting a design technique.
May 2012
2 posts
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Welcome to the Era of Design →
All businesses, no matter what they make or sell, should recognize the power and financial value of good design.
Obviously, there are many different types of design: graphic, brand, packaging, product, process, interior, interaction/user experience, Web and service design, to name but a few.
In this post, I am referring to design as a broad and deliberately applied discipline, with the aim of...
March 2012
4 posts
Lean ways to test your new business idea →
In ‘The Lean Startup’, Eric Ries describes a design process to help manage risk when developing new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This article describes three established user experience techniques we can use to support this design process: narrative storyboarding; paper prototyping; and the Wizard of Oz. — David Travis, March 5, 2012
“The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas, but to...”
– http://uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2012/03/achieving-a-great-user-experience-starts-with-an-organizations-goals.php
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What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools... →
Check this out if you want to have a complete understanding of UX design.
Four Key Principles of Mobile User Experience... →
Prior to becoming a senior UX designer at Popular Front Interactive, I spent two years as a mobile UX researcher within the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Mobile Technologies Group – a lab tasked with both future-casting and then rapidly prototyping innovative mobile experiences.
February 2012
3 posts
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Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App Interface... →
The best way to start off a mobile application is through wireframing. This is a design process where you lay out each of the app’s views in detail. This could be just a rough sketch, but many designers will spend time going that extra step. Wireframing is all up to your personal decisions and how much pre-planning needs to be done. I’ve gone into some detailed tips below focusing on creative...
10 Powerful Management Insights from Apple, P&G,... →
My book pile has begun to bulge with new “how we did it” books by managers from established, brand-name corporations — and one newer disruptive startup, the luxury-fashion, flash-sale ecommerce hit Gilt Groupe. So often these tomes are overflowing with self-aggrandizing blather, but, to my surprise, this crop has some useful tips on how to start and grow a successful...
January 2012
12 posts
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Brandon Schauer on Becoming a UX Manager →
Brandon discusses the skill sets required to be a manager in the UX space today and how this translates into success with the interdisciplinary teams that make up most organizations. Brandon also articulates the necessity to differentiate that of a UX thought leader and a UX manager, as well as some of the top trends that are emerging in this young field for designers interested in making...
“There are three types of people: those who make it happen, those who watch it...”
– Jeff Goldberg, Executive VP, EMC CORP
Design Envy · Day One: Paul Mayne →
Mobile Design: Comprehensive Gallery of the Most... →
Great for finding inspiration and/or seeing how the best of the best have designed their mobile experiences.
Organized by categories including navigations, signup flows, user profiles, commenting, activity feeds, etc.
Mobile Design Pattern Gallery →
UI Patterns for iOS, Android and More / By Theresa Neil / O’Reilly Media, February 2012
Explore 70 patterns with 400+ supporting examples from iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian applications.
Mobile User Experience Top 100 Resources →
Web Resources for Mobile User Experience Professionals
Tutorials, guides, best practices, interactions, UI patterns, books, and other resources …
Mobile User Experience Top 100 Resources →
Web Resources for Mobile User Experience Professionals
Tutorials, guides, best practices, interactions, UI patterns, books, and other resources …
Energy Efficient brain form light bulb →
Belarusian industrial designers Maria and Igor Solovyov have created a fluorescent light bulb in the shape of the human brain. Very interesting design.
Walking by the shores of Caspian with my lovely...
12 Things Happy People Do Differently →
“I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.” -Dan Millman
Studies conducted by...
here we go for best mobile UI patterns →
December 2011
6 posts
WE-DESIGNS.ORG: 3D MEDIA: scribbled line digital... →
we-designs:
‘cinema-flash showdown’ scribbled line digital portraits by ayaka ito and randall church blending programming, design, and photography the ‘cinema-flash showdown’ is a series of digital photographic works created by american designers ayaka ito and randall church while…
Winning Approval in Design Presentations →
New article by Ron George. Get better reception for your designs and ideas using these strategies for making presentations to stakeholders and colleagues.
How Entrepreneurs Can Increase Productivity by... →
Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book is I Was Blind But Now I See. You can follow him@jaltucher.
When I got separated from my ex-wife in November, 2008 I put an ad on Craigslist pretending to be a psychic and spent the day answering all the emails I...
November 2011
11 posts
Free Online Courses in HCI and Game Design from...
Free online courses from world’s leading universities
Human Computer Interaction Stanford
Mobile User Experience Design Stanford
Game Theory Yale
Game Design MIT
Computer Graphics IIT
Introduction to Computer Graphics IIT
Besides the free courses there’s also a paid online MS in HCI from DePaul College, exam can be taken across the world
MS in Human Computers Interaction, DePaul College...
Best Practices for Designing Mobile Touch Screen... →
While touch screen technology is no longer a novel concept, the meteoric rise in adoption of Android and iOS devices over the past few years has helped the touch screen phone market reach critical mass with an estimated 28% of mobile phone users in the United States owning Smartphones. There are over 700,000 applications across iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia, and other...
10 Key Considerations for Your Mobile Web Design... →
Brian Casel is a web designer and co-host of Freelance Jam, the live web show for independent professionals who build the web. Connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam. There’s no turning back now. The web has gone mobile. More users are accessing the web from more places on more devices than…
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iPhone Design Guidelines →
Human Interface guidelines
4 Strategies for Working With Designers Without... →
Fourteen years ago, in my first job where my title was “Information Architect,” I clashed with a designer. We were working at a large advertising agency that was known for stunning design work. The art directors wielded a level of power at the agency that I have never seen anywhere else, and …
Noncommand User Interfaces →
gregruben:
This article was pretty abstract and hard to process at times, especially for a non-developer, but here are my thoughts:
It’s interesting to see what has failed to come to fruition since this was written in 1993. Fact is, some of the problems Nielsen brings up are just as complex now as they were then.
Object-oriented operating systems instead of application-oriented ones…who is...
“The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands,but in seeing with...”
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/sanfranci... →
Shared 7 Steps to a Kick-Ass UX Portfolio on UX... →
Last year, I found this question on the Interaction Design Association list:
I need to create portfolio to show my ability to design end-to-end user experiences with examples of design proposals, scenarios, use cases, interaction flows, wireframes, UX architecture, visual designs and specifications. I am looking for guidance and examples for how to create an interesting portfolio.
You...
Why is passion so powerful for aspiring designers?
Passion Comes from a Pure Source
Passion Leads to Productivity
Professional Fulfillment Supplements Personal Fulfillment
Passion is Infectious
October 2011
27 posts
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Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User... →
Usability and user experience testing is vital to creating a successful website, and only more so if it’s an e-commerce website, a complex app or another website for which there’s a definite ROI. And running your own user tests to find out how users are interacting with your website and where problems might arise is completely possible.
But using one of the many existing tools and services...
What Google+ Brand Pages Could Look Like →
