FIVE #12

Your weekly dose of digital snacks

Use of color
Working with color is so important, but sometimes we even don’t recognise that anymore. I personally like this article from Justin Mezzell as also realised that it is difficult to explain how to use color to somebody. As he talks about his process you start to think about the use of color more intentionally.

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► How I Work with Color

Empathy Maps
Working on digital products should always start from the user side as these are the people we gonna target to use them. Even more it’s important to get a reminder what values and characteristics matters and influence the design process.

This article is about empathy maps which is a tool to understand customers better.

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► Adapting empathy maps for UX design

Design process of a POS app
I like articles which describe a whole design process. It can help to identify potentially new working methods, adjust your own process or confirm the methods you’re using.

This article is about a design process of a POS app. It’s a complex topic and many different ways how to solve problems.

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► When Simplicity Isn’t the Answer — Designing for Vastly Different Audiences

App Animations
Animations in user interfaces become more important and as more tools allow to design these easily we’ll face theme even more in the future. I think it’s important to get useful inspiration of meaningful animations to understand how they actually work.

This website is a nice collection of animation embedded in apps.

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► AppAnimations

Tool: Zeroheight
The communication between designers and developers is still not completely seamless. I’ve experienced it on my own several times. How much effort is needed to define specs and how far can you believe in the design understanding of developers.

This tool will bridge this gap an will allow to sync designer and developer.

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► Designers and developers, in sync