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And it’s deeper than Photoshop vs. Sketch.
Here’s a review of what we’ve been through in 2016. We’ve got stories, some silly…
The software engineering team lead was excited. “We think we have developed a…
Version control fundamentally improves the way you build and manage your design system. Here’s why.
Care to guess the single most often asked question I get asked from my clients during my headshot sessions?
“Can you make me look thinner?”
In this article, I will show you how to create this growing flower animation only…
Here are three stories we published this week that are worth your time:
In the realm of human experience, it's clear that we are all looking to experience love, in one way or another. And love can be felt in any satisfying, empowering, meaningful…
by Tobias van Schneiderfirst appeared ✍🏼 on my personal blog
Words matter.
When we discuss “definition of done” we often forget the needs and goals of our customers, users, and business (the true arbiters…
On the 31st of December 2016, Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi Inaugurated a UPI based payment app…
By Sam Kronick
What’s wrong with this picture?
Article 1 in the “Design & Code” Series
A Maxi-Rant About Mini Remote Controls
When Design Aesthetics Trump Usability
I am now the befuddled, baffled, mystified owner of two “minimalist” remote controls: one for Amazon’s Fire Stick and one for a Samsung UHD TV.
上一篇文章裡，簡單介紹了改善與工程師溝通效率的方法 （文章連結：三個步驟提升設計師的工作效率），其實在此之前，我花了不少時間與PM 和 RD 規劃工作SOP，從需求、設計到開發，因為我是設計師，下面主要談論設計的部分。
每個設計師心中都有一個夢幻流程：從PM手上拿到需求，然後四處搜刮靈感，畫出wireframe給PM確認後，繼續完成Mockup，接著弄出厲害的動態效果Prototype，得到歡呼喝采，最後就交給工程師去開發，任務結束。
Hello! My name is Savannah. I’m finishing up my final year of college at NYU, where I’m majoring in…
When we talk about User Experience, it’s tempting to think that it just means “does the user think something was…
Hey! I have been using Sketch for ZingChart to do a little design & prototyping to improve UX & UI. So far, I have…
The growth of Mobi Lab has been incredible over the past few years. So incredible in…
When a designer is working on a new project, he/she can easily get immersed (and distracted) by the infinite pool of creative choices he/she can make. From colors to typography. From button types to…
This tale isn’t new. Presumably most go through this phase of the design process, but this…
The intersection of business, technology, and design is a busy place these days. As…
Throughout the 2016 U.S. election, I thought a lot about the work my team and I…
Skeuomorphism — The design concept of making the interactions represented resemble their real-world counterparts.
Diegetic Interface — An interface that exists as part of the game world (it is visible to both the player and the…
Most of the videos we do at LooseKeys involve characters and these characters often need to interact and…
Trabalho como designer na Thoughtworks, uma empresa que possui 33 escritórios…
What’s in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet;
Last year was a pretty hectic year for Availo. We launched our mobile app, quickly realised we also needed a web client, built and launched that, then on-boarded 300+ freelancers and clients including awesome studios such as UsTwo, B-Reel and DesignStudio. In short, it was manic and relentless, but we…
I work in technology so I’m online ALL day. I constantly try new products, apps, and have no less than twenty tabs…
Ever the jester, whenever my dad really wanted to get on my nerves, he would dig out that old cliché:
This was my first design project. I was to create a landing page that showcases Avenir Next, a geometric sans-serif typeface.
There has never been a better time for me to write about this today. A quick browse over any job site or…
If you are paranoid about performance, use hex when declaring your colors and short hex whenever possible. If you need transparency use RGBA and stay the hell away from HSL(A).
Last week, I wrote about the results of my quest to re-engineer breakfast. I now blend and drink the tasty…
Hoy, el diseño de interfaz es una disciplina en la que ni se condenan las falacias ni se cuestiona la falta de contexto. Es una profesión en la…
For people who hate interview tips.
Ever wondered what’s the face of your brand ! How people get the first idea of your services or products. It has to be the logo of your company (and a pizza logo if you run a pizza company) that communicates with plausible buyers…
by Tom Green
Bayi dan balita memiliki kebutuhan yang berbeda dengan anggota keluarga lainnya. Karena…
There are many ways provided by apple to render custom views on storyboard which makes designing easy and simple. WYSIWYG has truly come to storyboards due to below guys.
For me D&AD has always been the most coveted award. It was the first annual I picked up in design school…
Icons and symbols are all around as. Every day our eyes see, all of them and our brain interprets what we see immediately. Small and sometimes even tiny pictures could contain a lot of information that transfer in our mind just in a few seconds. Does it sound amazing? It does…
By Brandon Faulkner
A couple of weeks ago, a friend came to me and asked me to analyze if he can be a UX designer. His major…
How we designed an award-winning chair leveraging simplicity
While tropical décor definitely has its roots in the past, there is something enduringly enticing about the sunny pastels, kitschy palm prints, and pink flamingos that keep it coming back in style. Today’s tropical décor is anything but…
(an inside voice of me recently.)
It’s been a while that I want to say these things to you, but I guess you probably know some of it from time to time. First, you are awesome. You made all my design come true, without you, my design is…
I know, I know! I already see your comments like : Oh! Julien has a list too… Yes…
Genius is a talent for producing something for which no determinate rule can be given, not a predisposition consisting of a skill for something that can be learned by following some rule or other.
— Immanuel Kant
A few years ago a company hired me to design and manage their mobile products. They had a couple of apps in the app stores, but the apps hadn’t been updated in quite a while and the CEO felt that making a significant investment in developing high-quality mobile offerings to…
Back in the spring of 2016 I started working at a software company as their UI designer and was plunged into…
Insights & Observations (IO) doesn’t just describe the type of content we will be publishing — it highlights what UsabilityHub offers as a service.
Our aim in launching IO is to bring you new content based on our experiences in usability testing, user…
All great technology products have combined excellent design with cutting edge engineering…
I know we’re in week two of 2017, however, this is a post I’ve been planning to write for the past few weeks and just haven’t had the time with all that’s been happening around here. Either way, here it goes:
Things have been going well here at the Iron Yard. Each day there’s a new topic to learn that builds on the topics from all the prior days. I have understood each new topic, and everything is coming together to form a complete picture, much like building blocks. Friday I…
The colour GREENERY is our winner for 2017.
I mostly write code, but also like to get on ye ol’ sketch app and have fun creating some designs.
I thought it would be easy to group them in this medium article to show what I did during 2016 and the first part of this year for web design.
Technology moves so fast that it’s tough for most schools to maintain a curriculum which addresses…
Part two of our wedding planning series for engaged couples focuses on colour. Once you’ve got your head…
Idea Couture is looking for a Front End Developer to join our growing technology team…
The way companies think about design, their customers, and the interactions between the two has come a long way over the last few years.
Can’t decide which balustrade would be ideal for your home sweet home? Then have a look at some tips for buying the best balustrading as per your requirements.
Provavelmente essa não é a primeira vez que você fez esse questionamento para alguém ou para si mesmo, mas se você ainda precisa de motivos para estar na internet, e vou lhe dar apenas um. Mais de 102 milhões de brasileiros já estão conectados a…
First published in a slightly modified form ‘The Language of Identity’ in Business Standard, 7 January, in Deep…
Hi Patrick,
great article. I see a lot of overlaps. I agree that the importance is to create a long term emotional connection with the customers. You also highlight the importance of the brand.
In my understanding the brand is a set of shared values (as it is currently mostly the case). Yet, what…
For this assignment, we were tasked with creating a prototype of an interaction involving both a phone and a wearable like a smartwatch. When I was ideating, I considered sleeping, eating, walking, cooking and taking notes as actions that the user may be using…
Wow. This is powerful.
I’ve heard from students, and I’ve said it myself until I finally got it, “How do I get ideas for personal projects?” Personal projects can be anything you think would be a good idea, maybe something that’s already done, and you think can be improved. Anything that you are passionate about, or curious…
Loved the piece on O’Reilly — I’ve shared it on the UX for Bots group, thank you for bringing great content!
Recently I’ve applied for a position that had one of the best enquiries I’ve ever find. This made…
In studio this week, we participated in a user centered design charrette.
charrette (noun)- an intense period of design activity
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As most of you know, I have been passionate about writing for a long time. My…
It’s time to review all of the content we’ve created and shared over the past year to…
I design experiences, products, services, and things. I hold a couple of degrees in design and am currently working as a UX Designer.
I work too much, like bad movies, am a horrific dancer, love learning, am just barely on the “safe” side of a perfectionism problem, and can make…
It’s been a fast paced week here at “HQ”, yesterday I started to design the base theme I’d be offering, I took creative inspiration from much of the current content marketing inspired themes out there, whilst at the same time, actually optimizing for readability…
The need for an anti corrosion gel at just any industry, specifically the industries like aviation, marine, power generation and transportation cannot be avoided. These are the industries where they use the metals…
Yes, bread starts with wheat. But you don’t have to be a farmer to make a fantastic loaf.
Why do we need to learn User-Centered Design? That is the question. In contemporary times, humans’ life become more and more convenient. The rapid development of technology is a main reason, but another key reason is that designers puts users’ needs at the first position.Users’…
Who doesn’t agree, that action speaks louder than worlds and a picture can tell a lot more than words. It is true because of this strong impression onto the minds of the beholder. The regions like Dubai, are facing the biggest challenging of surviving the…
The trend for using darker, warmer richer paint colours within the home has increased…
This write up focuses on my tangible progress these past two weeks.
First and foremost, after hair pulling and failed attempts, I managed to get url hosted on github. Which I’m pretty proud of, even if it is a relatively simple process after the fact. One thing I’m…
My worst self
Our self-knowledge and personality develops over time, but not in every aspect.
You are working at a design strategy consultancy and you have been asked by management to come up with some new concepts for wearable tech products. Your team is given the challenge of a system that combines a smart watch and a smart phone, and asked to develop a product concept that involves…
The dawn of the new year is a special time in everyone’s life. People seem to be more motivated and commit themselves into learning new skills. I was no different. The year started with high hopes for me. Furthermore, I promised myself to pounce on every opportunity that comes…
Fifteen years flies by when you’re having a blast! It was November of 2001 when Randall Smith split up a partnership and formed modern8. We are frequently asked where the name modern8 came from, and if you are asking yourself, “I wonder if it’s because they have 8 people working there?”, the…
It’s important to choose the right Architect Dublin firm. Regardless of whether you want a home…
In this studio, we went through a design charrette to introduce us to a fast-paced design situation. We began by imagining specific users and situations to give each group a scenario to work with. Each student in the class…
Treniq Featured Project: Art Deco Interiors with a touch of American Style
The Fountain Boulevard private residence is a modern apartment project in Kiev designed for a young cosmopolitan couple
The 85 m² modern apartment located in Kiev, Ukraine is owned by a young cosmopolitan couple that already…
The obvious reason you will have services from the best is because they will offer you quality services. Design is not how it looks but how it works. This is saying that is very workable and it is one that experts…
This is a beautiful and elegant translate dashboard concept designed in Sketch by Adam Balazy. The…
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One of the most helpful things I learned from reading the “Learn CSS Layout” blog was how to create columns of text. The reason this stuck out to me the most is because I just absolutely HATE reading one single line of text that stretches the entirety of the…
For this section, we plan to design a creative app displayed on the screen of one vehicle. In our scenario, there are some users who are passionate about music. However, they are tired of repeated CDs and radio selections on their car. Due to this urgent need, we want to create better…
Short and simple. Exactly what I needed, in the right time! Looking forward to more tutorials like this.
I regretted picking the restaurant as soon as I held the menu in my hands. The flimsy cardstock was as soft as my bedsheets from all the hands that had held it. A lonely jam stain lay over the restaurant’s name, as if placed there purposely. With over 70 items to choose from, without…
The UCD Charrette was the my first introduction to a “Studio” class in UW and a new step to look into HCDE. We sat in groups of three…
This is definitely one of the most powerful articles I’ve ever read about design.
Every designer, no matter what he designs, apps, campaigns, or even a conversation must read this. Putting soul into product, a soul that is honest, weak sometimes and confident in others, is a major thing.
‘New Year, new beginnings’ has been a motto for most of the people out there. Well half of the population vows to work on their habits to recreate their own self, others pledge to decorate their surroundings in better ways. Some also save up for a year to remodel their…
When starting out similar to a other business venture, what becomes extremely important is to strike the right chord as soon as the first impression. The tilt of the company is charted by its advertisements and its logo. It is like the…
When you are dealing with custom interior design for a small room you can actually go quite far as long as you are flexible and versatile. Another thing that you have to do is have control of the room and let it show. Think about the benefits of that…
On Friday, Jan 6th, I attended my first studio session in HCDE and had my first experience in the intensive exciting UCD Charrette activity. The main theme of the UCD Charrette is to design a unique screen interface on a specific vehicle for a…
I improved my header of my app idea vinyl pi, a trading platform for vinyl aficionados. I found that I can center divs by just messing with margins and padding. I don’t know if it is the best way, but it works. On the negative side of things I made a form for a coding challenge and was rejected. But on the…
When getting the website designing done, hire the right people. Hire a company whose credentials are established and can give you good results in very good prices. Also with time the web design trends keeps on…
In this week’s studio session, we began by brainstorming different users and vehicles on post-it notes and were later given a specific…
Having reviewed some of the critiques, I decided to try giving it a facelift. What started as a fun side project eventually lead to the Flatbook Chrome extension.
In the UCD Charrette studio course that I attended last week, I worked closely with my team members in the whole process of redesigning smart vehicle interfaces. First, we came up with a number of ideas involving many different kinds of car users as well as the vehicles which these…
Aspects of modernism push more men to individualism. The notions of sharing have become foreign to human societies. But little by little, these values of sharing, of community, and of collaboration return to morals. This is how the concept of…
After many years of searching for the right job and the right feeling we meet in a crazy deco adventure on a Techno event in Sweden. We knew straight away that we shared the same burning passion for things, beautiful things and also things that some sees as…
Submersible sewage pumps are more and more popular in the ore field, in order to apply different environmental requirements, production processes, product performance and so on also need to have a new upgrade. In the future, what direction…
I’m not quite sure how the hamburger menu became popular. It does look like a menu as much as anything else, in the general area of where a menu might go, does… I guess it has lines which are menu-like features…
By: Travis Wiggins, Productive Edge UX Designer
In the first studio session, I was introduced to what HCDE was and how doing charrettes played an important role within the design process. The user/scenario that I focused on was a getaway driver. We first focused on what would be most necessary for a getaway driver, and then…
Did you know that Mobile Leather Repairs offers furniture repairs beyond just cleaning and patching damaged or dated leather? Learn what else we can do. You know that when the leather on your sofas or chairs gets scuffed or…
In our first studio session, we took part in a user centered design charrette…
How to design your web site like a pro when you are not designer
I didn’t have budget to hire designer and worse, I didn’t have much experience of front end skill such as css, here is how I survived to design my site, http://greensprout.co.
In an age where everyone is almost well informed as a customer, items are responding by coming to be a lot more fine-tuned. Without doubt, rate, efficiency as well as attributes are very crucial factors to consider in customer items, yet, any number of characteristics, performance…
In our design, connecting the phones and the vehicles using this app, users are able to heat their vehicles before they actually get on them, so when the users are ready to drive, their vehicles are also ready to be started. And on the touch screen on the vehicle, users can choose GPS+traffic to…
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A “charrette” in this context refers to an intense designing activity over a period of time. This process involved an hour of ideating and designing and concluded with a 1 minute presentation. The focus of the studio’s process was to meet the needs of specific users, hence the name “user centered…
Press Release January 10, 2017: When people search for ornamental products, they first check that chosen product will improve the beauty of their space or not. The roller Blinds are chosen for…
Why hire an Architect Cork?” you might ask yourself… You yourself could plan your new…
I imagine a scene in which I gently, and slowly, place my face upon a cool window, with a firmly pressed cheek, and gently raise my gaze up to a grey cloud with “WHITE BICYCLE,” imposed upon it. This, or they, is, or are, a design studio in Buffalo, NY. I had admired their work for…
Structuring Charm: Tony Reade | CRITICAL on WordPress.com
Earlier this year Tony Reade exhibited at First Site Gallery with an exhibition that explored the…
The ultimate compliment for a 3D creator is once somebody appearance at his creation and is convinced that it is not a pc generated image however a photograph taken of the $64000 factor. Whereas there are some WHO aim for a fantastical, impulsive rummage around for their…
Treniq Collaborates With SDS 2017 | The Future Of Surface Materials
Materials and surfaces play a significant role in the experience we have with our surroundings, they need to be practical yet still inspiring. In the hospitality sector the surfaces must exude luxe whilst still maintaining the necessary hard wearing…
Kid’s Choice week continues with a very specific request from my son to do the villain Darkseid from Teen Titans Go as voiced by @alfredyankovic “Weird A”l I don’t know how you can tell from a drawn cartoon that it’s currently voiced by Weird Al but just imagine Weird Al’s voice coming out of this dude. . #dccomics #villans #kuretake #kuretakezig…
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In the first studio class of HCDE 210, we were divided into different groups to design the interface of cars for various users. First, everyone can imagine which users will need to use interface, and our group chose pregnant mother as our user. It is…
To provide a fully at ease and lovely look and consider, whereas inside of decoration is simply clearly decorating the self-discipline.
Installing Rain Gardens
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It’s far relaxed to mention that you are enamored with drawing? Have you ever drawn some aspect that has a message? Yes… I have a faultless vocation possibility for you. A subject in that you require each your imagination and you are drawing aptitudes. The universe of snap shots dressmaker. Intrigued? Need…
The ingenious staff members do the entire market survey to grab the needs and investigate out to make plans to satisfy the desires in least rate viable.
Kid’s Choice week continues with Master Yoda. “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Have I mentioned how awesome my kids are? Although my daughter earned extra geek cred this morning when she announced “ this doesn’t look like the movie Yoda” so I need to go and try again. I was working from the Clone Wars Yoda so I guess that’s an accurate review. …
Within ornament is an art of bettering the seam of your personal dwelling which includes the involvement of safe with a satisfactory capabilities and sense of design.
Has the interior look of your house got outdated and thereby you are wondering about the best possible way to enhance it? Whether you wish to renovate your home or enhance its looks, without any sort of prior knowledge it will certainly be a very difficult…
