Audio in Interaction Design Back in 1989 William W. Gaver developed the SonicFinder at Apple Computer, Inc. Gaver was sure that the appropriate use of nonspeech sound and its full potential wasn’t discovered yet. He was convinced, that sound should be used in computers the same way as it is…

What I learned from designing a game — People love games I can clearly remember getting my first gaming console. It was my 7th birthday, when I got a GameBoy Color with the game “Pokemon”. Like every child I was completely attracted to this device. …

Apps are not the only solution Last June more than 100 Billion downloads were tracked by the AppStore. That means, that an average citizen has up to 10 Apps installed on their smartphone — and the number increases day by day. The fast growing number of tech startups, raises the…

Or finding a better name for a better goal — Client: “Our new design needs to be intuitive!” Product Owner: “We really need to rework the usability of our application, it isn’t intuitive.” Designer: “Oh wow! Did you see this new app? This is a really intuitive user interface design!” You recognize some of those statements? Of course you do…

Storytelling + UI Design = ?! — Storytelling is a strong tool we’ve been using since the early stages of communication. It helps us to combine fragments of information to understandable threads. When we talk about stories we always talk about the personal and emotional experience. Did I like the story? …

Imagine an interface every user can handle as you expected it, an interface that is visually fully understood by every person that interact with it and an interface that is so intuitve to operate with, that no tutorial or instructions are needed at the beginning. …

A few months ago the British design agency “superflux” released a concept video with the titel “Uninvited Guests”. The video describes the relation of a seventy years old man called Thomas and his highly developed smart home. What firstly seems like utopia is almost part of our everyday life. Different…

and what we can learn from them — Skeumorphism, flat design and material design. These are all buzz words every modern designer knows and has to deal with. Basically these visual concepts are all describing the look and feel of digital applications and operating systems. But as a fact they are all design aesthetics, which are following design…

A library that might save time and money — “Carefully choreographed motion design can effectively guide the user’s attention and focus through multiple steps of a process or procedure; avoid confusion when layouts change or elements are rearranged; and improve the overall beauty of the experience.” Paul Stamatiou According to Paul Stamatiou’s statement, motion design is a required and…