When I first started learning about product design, one of the most influential…
Practical tips and tools.
CSS is weird. You can learn the basics of it in 15 minutes. But it can take years before you…
Illustrations by Matt Kissick
Here’s what I know.
Going through a life-altering international move is hard. Starting fresh in a new city without any real ties is really hard. Accepting your…
via Muzli design inspiration
Passando para compartilhar um estudo recente de John Whalen, um “psicólogo de UX” que possui PhD em ciências…
by Tobias van Schneiderfirst appeared ✍🏼 on my personal blog
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Back in 2010 there wasn’t a place where designers could share thoughts or advice…
Machine Learning — This is the second article in a larger series exploring the intersection of design and existing artificial…
Estou cansada e não quero falar sobre isso. Deitar no sofá e passar por todas as opções do Netflix parece ser tudo o que eu consigo fazer. De…
The cognitive reward was always there: you tapped or clicked on the little red badge floating on top of one of the menu items to find out someone liked your photo, left you a nice comment or even better, you…
What’s hot in UX this week:
Microinteractions are…
Over the course of this last year there have been tons of great talks, papers and articles that are relevant to game animation technology. With the year having just ended I wanted to provide an overview and discussion of my 2 favorite talks of the last…
In my three years of university schooling and my 5 years of work experience, I have not heard the term “design management” until I read the article 18 Views on Design Management. This article is essentially 18 descriptions of what design management is and the role of…
Sitting outdoors in a Dubai bar and having a flowing conversation about art, my artist date asked me, “So! who’s your favourite designer?”
I was stumped.
Remember when Richard Parker taught Peter the lesson of his life. With great power comes great responsibility…
…and 4 valuable lessons I learned there.
First published on square.devcenter.co
I’m writing this listening to Love Again — Slander, Wavz on repeat. One of the biggest misconceptions about people that are (or seem to be) on top is that they had it figured it out all the way. Contrary to…
In 2014, with the help of my colleague Thaniya, I gathered a slop bucket of insights and anecdotes about the practice of…
Gum Bichromates always gave me a hard time when I was in school. They are beautiful if created properly, and a frustration when things go wrong. Digitally creating these is so much more fun for me than the traditional way.
Born in New Jersey and now living in Los Angeles, internet personality and graphic designer Karen does videos about…
In the last 10 years, we’ve seen a handful of interface tendencies come and go. The very first buttons were decorated with brutal…
Este proyecto se realizó por iniciativa propia y como trabajo final de Máster de la…
Where do you live? San Francisco, CA
By David Linssen
Everything is designed. Few…
Інфографіка за останні 2–3 роки впевнено захоплює ринок українського медіа і стає дедалі популярнішою. Її регулярно використовує переважна більшість ЗМІ у своїх новинах або аналітичних матеріалах. Деякі депутати ВРУ теж намагаються не відставати і…
What is Discovery? What is Framing? Questions that you will often get from stakeholders who are new to UX practices, or new to software altogether. Both refer to periods of time in your product development lifecycle that happen at…
Everyone, Hundertwasser suggests, should be allowed to build their own house. Because…
Over the past few years, the Irish design scene has gained traction both at home and abroad. Being design…
I think I’m starting to really dislike the term “product” when it comes to software…
For Postlight’s one-year anniversary in October, we created Practice, a book of…
Recently, the question on Quora “Which books have influenced your thinking on product…
Do you remember what it was like to find out that he/she was the one? That moment when things just clicked, and all your worrying, searching, and analyzing had finally paid off? What made you two compatible? And more importantly, how did you know? Think about it…
Very early in my graphic design career, I was between gigs, shopping my little portfolio in earnest around San Antonio…
«На большом артборде, можно расположить много элементов или сделать элементы более…
I have always harbored a passion for design. I can still remember my nine-year-old excitement while…
In the A List Apart book “Just Enough Research” Erika Hall says “Information and iteration are the keys to a successful design.” She is so right. Information is the first step in design strategy, but…
If you live in western NY, Jersey, parts of PA/VA/MD: you know it. If you are a New Englander, North Carolinian; you are just getting to know it.
Listed below are color schemes for many different categories of websites and apps. Each category has the appropriate color combination, and each color combination lists the hexadecimal and rgb values. In addition links and a…
Juventus FC’s new brand identity unveiling was met with wide criticism from fans and followers across the world, who felt a stripping off their pride. You really didn’t have to be a supporter to have fallen in love with…
As a former student of a Parisian art school, it’s not uncommon to get random creative inquiries, ranging from…
Hi, Happy New Year! For our Ask Symph Volume I, we answered the most basic questions about Symph.
For this month’s volume of Ask Symph we’d like to answer some common doubts and thoughts on working with a web services firm.
Jack is a furniture maker based in Walthamstow. He works with industrial materials like wooden pallets and copper piping to…
These articles break down my approach to product design with lots of examples from my work.
Tasarımcı ve yazılımcıların birlikte çalışırken karşılaştığı en temel sorunun iletişim problemi…
By Benjamin M. Schmidt
This year’s Made by Few conference was held in beautiful Bentonville, Arkansas — woooopigsooie! Now, your first thoughts from reading that sentence could look something like this: “a DESIGN conference….in ARKANSAS?” Or “where the hell is Bentonville…
If you are new to UX Design, you may not realize how much of it is around you and your surroundings. Take for example a product you have recently purchased. You may not be aware of how much actual planning, design, prototyping and testing has gone into that…
I’m currently working on an article about CV template best practises.
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Design thinking is the new wave of innovative product development and ideation toolkit. Every industry sector seem to have adopted a version of design thinking for their product development. Universities across nation have also started to give importance to…
As a young digital agency owner, you find yourself early on the road, and realise there are many things which need improvement, and you are ready to learn. However, your resources are limited, so finding some…
This is not a story: this is a few truths I found scattered in articles, my own experiences, and frustrations I face every day battling with issues in UX design. To produce a consistently good design while I create, and help get my team on board with the design directionality, I formalized…
We gathered around the laptop to link up on Skype with people in Beirut, joined together by the…
This is awesome. I was having this problem just this week, trying to decide between using custom icons or a icon font for the simplicity of it. This, however, seems to be the best solution for me so far.
This week we are looking at the work ANCHOVY. did for the Al Tayer family in Dubai after they requested our marketing services to promote their latest HR software with the name of: Connect.
The Brief: Work as a team to identify a problem/opportunity with the PropertyGuru mobile application, utilizing our knowledge to design a solution.
I’ve been a UX professional for three years now. One question that I keep getting is, what is it that UX designers do exactly? The answer to that has changed over time. This is the first time I am committing it to a post. I will enjoy revisiting this in a couple of…
By Amelia Marzec
At a time when the accuracy of news sources is in question, and politicians want to restrict access to information, hyperlocal communications have more potential than ever. You Are Here is a project that essentially…
Weekly summary:
For my first project at RED Academy I was asked to create a well structured and designed web desktop landing page that is optimized for conversion and showcased a typeface that was randomly drawn from a set of typefaces that were preselected by my instructors.
In the last year i worked for many eCommerce projects, so i wanted to select my…
Don Norman mentions three important concepts in his book The Design of Everyday Things: affordances, signifiers, and feedback. Affordances are the “relationship between the properties of an object and the capabilities of the agent” or in other words…
Have you ever wondered why really really large IT projects are so intrinsically…
Alex Mitchell and Len Kori from Thrill SF join us to talk about their journey from legendary…
Case Study — “BookShare” — ‘A mobile application for borrowing and lending books.’
To start with I had a general idea of what the app would do, who the users were and the most prominent features of the application. But without proper research they were just hypothesis and may…
Once upon a time, if you said the word “design”, the odds were overwhelmingly likely you were talking about graphic design. But nowadays, the digital world is becoming increasingly more complicated and a lot of new job…
Day 1: Went out and surveyed area around bus stops.
By Nomensa
“The idea of ‘Everyman the Designer’ is a compelling one, but the ability of consumers to generate…
Já pensou em aprender aquela matéria que você não se deu muito bem na época de escola de um jeito divertido? Não? Pois bem, hoje eu mostrarei um case de um projeto que eu e meus amigos realizamos na faculdades para crianças…
My initial intent when it came to making a portfolio was to display the content of my portfolio in the…
Or, let’s all stop building tech that makes life too easy
4 Tips To Help Keep Baby’s Things From Taking Over Your Home
With any business it’s usually how well a product or service has been communicated to the consumer that usually determines the likelihood of making a sale. If a consumer is not well-informed or the true value isn’t communicated it is very likely that they will lose interest as they…
Qualche settimana fa sono stato a Milano, ospite, tra un impegno e l’altro, di Cyrcus per assistere ad una…
One of the thing I enjoy the most with writing the blog and books is getting feedback from you. These comments and questions are crucial to evolving at creating better user experiences and offering extra insight into what my next steps should be. I think it even helps me continue…
Last Monday we rebooted Hustle for 2017 (after a bit of a hiatus) with 2 intriguing talks from a pair of design professionals working at the coal face of product design.
When I say product design, I mean in that we have started to see a move away…
You have been thinking about this food app idea (and you believe it will be a big hit) for months. You told your friend about it. She said: “Isn’t that what startup X has been doing?”
This essay was first published by WHYY/NewsWorks (as part of the community-driven Speak Easy blog), hence the delayed posting of my Janaury Director’s Take here. My thanks to WHYY for sharing this piece launching the ExCITe Center’s Learning Innovation initiative.
In the first chapter of the design of everyday things, Dan Norman introduced us some design terminology, three of which, affordance, signifiers, and feedback, will be explored in this reading response.
With each year, new technologies emerge, some fade and occasionally older technologies are reinvented for a different…
Affordances define the relationship between a physical object and a person. In terms of affordances, Magic Bands have multiple interactive properties that have been provided to the users. First, patrons could enter rides or make transactions in Disney park for…
Graphic designer, creative and photography lover, Davide Marchesi has a job history in image and branding, together with all those products which make a company unique and notable.
There are few web development phases which one comes across while creating a web project. Understanding these…
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In The Design of Everyday Things, Norman notes the concept of affordances, signifiers, and feedback in design. Disney took these concepts and allowed these concepts to help them design…
这是一篇容易招黑的文章，仅代表个人观点：连我们自己工作中每天都面对的问题，都不主动寻找更好的解决方案，那不是没救了吗？
Quick thought on the What-is-Art Question
After completing a postsecondary education in graphic design, you can proudly walk away with so much more than…
Week 3
Digitizing my wireframe sketches of the pragmatic exercises (not called activities because it is so confusing now as the the term “activity” is used to track online actions on the web) was actually a very interesting process.
We’re heading into the new Formula One season with some pretty significant changes to…
The world is a colourful place.
In the context of a university project, we have created a team consisted of 4 members: Agis Lamprakis, Eirini Zaveli, Semina Tsokana and Christina Koromila. We were appointed a case study that has to do with the foreign programme of the public tv…
There are very few things that can tank conversions the way misused ghost buttons can.
Norman’s concept of affordance explains the relationship between a physical object and a human being (Norman 11). Disney incorporated the idea of affordance to their design of the magic bands by creating the data collecting device to be something very simplistic…
Have you ever wondered what design is? Who does it? Is it important? Well I do. I have to; I’m a designer.
In their book User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, JoAnn Hackos and Janice Redish note that performing a task analysis helps you understand:
I’m writing this post at the close of a historic weekend.
I just returned this morning from Washington, D.C., where I, along with hundreds of thousands of other individuals, participated in the Women’s March on Washington. Before heading there, I was nervous…
For this assignment, I decided to create an elephant because it is one of my favorite animals. I thought about the main parts: body, trunk, tail, legs, and ears. To keep the design simple, I broke down these body parts into four different pieces…
Maximum Energy Professionals “MEP” has assisted our commercial, educational, healthcare and municipal customers with expert HVAC, mechanical, and plumbing design services since 1990.
Spot Checks are used to change the quantity of an item on a shelf. This should be done minimally as we will be sending a detailed Report of why we changed the quantity of an item to the client weekly.
Hello! and welcome to my User Experience portfolio.Here I present a case study on “BookShare” — ‘A mobile application for borrowing and lending books.’
The case study is divided in 6 parts to clearly outline the process and stages of design:1) User…
Principle 1: Embrace Natural Processes
-We shouldn’t create apps which prevent us from doing the job e.g. BMW app sees users undergoing 13 steps just to unlock a car door whilst a Mercedes-Benz vehicle on the hand…
Thanks for reminding us of the bigger picture and longer timeline. It’s so needed in these alarming, seemingly dystopian times which are such a jarring (and really “deplorable”), departure from the Obama era.
There’s a lot to be said that this is the last gasp of the previous era, as Brian Eno also…
28 Days of Minimalism: Day 1
Wait Minimalism? WTF is that?
Project : Changenews.org
Team : Deena Tamaroff | Janet Schogol | Ujjaini Lahiry
Goals: research what is the current standard for transit accessibility for people who are visually impaired and use this for comparison when conducting field research.
According to the American Foundation for the Blind, these are the current transit…
Styles and trends in the interior design world vary significantly depending on personal style. One trend in…
Design goes beyond software and there is a lot of theory behind it. Can you also think that design is just…
Tilt Factory, fin de l’expérience.
Voilà on arrive à la fin de mon stage chez Tilt factory… Quoi de neuf depuis le dernier rapport ? Pas grand chose, j’ai eu quelques petit réglages de mails. Et des petits projet pour des indépendants.
I am addicted to insight. Even when I was young I used to go through my grandma’s encyclopedia collections and read all stories that catch my interest. I like to learn a lot of things and YouTube is one of my favorite learning methods now. I can’t spend a lot of time reading…
The Different Psychologies You Should Consider When Designing Your Website
Online marketing gurus all agree that marketing is a mind game — you need to understand human psychology in order to create an impact with your marketing tactics. Therefore, if you’re designing your website and you wish to ascertain that you’re…
We all look for familiarity. People tend to take from their experiences and project them onto interfaces or products, which is why it’s important for us to design for the people whom it would matter most to. Our role in the user experience field is to help others solve the puzzle…
In the book The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman writes on the concepts of affordances, signifiers, and feedback. Affordances are defined as “a relationship between…
For many customers, your website will be their first introduction to you. It’s your first chance to make…
The MacBook is a fascinating piece of hardware created by Apple accompanied with even more extraordinary software. We often care more about the functions of a laptop rather and we overlook curated designs.
Some books change the way you think. Very rarely you find a book that causes a paradigm shift in your thinking.
Ever blamed yourself for switching on the wrong button for the light; no need to blame or…
There are many different factors that people need to take into consideration when purchasing bedroom furniture. The more investigation that people do into the products they are going to buy, the happier they will be…
The Design of Everyday Things:
Affordance is not about money but the relationship between the product and the users. The product shows the possibilities it can be used by the users. Each wristband is personalized with user’s name and…
As Sparksheet points out, print is no longer a singular medium, but an accompaniment. Almost everything printed will have a…
Satire on how the future could unfold
There exists a common trend among many that the advent of something unique, something cool and exciting in the field of technology has to be complex in nature. But the extract from, “The Design of Everyday Things” and the article, “Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband” aim at…
This past holiday season we traveled to Lago di Como in northern Italy and Aracta, California to explore design styles and connect with the outdoors a bit to find inspiration for the coming year.
The world we experience today is complex and well constructed. We often miss the small details when looking at our massive cities, however even in the simple obvious features we find great importance. One the streets we have small edgings or markings, signalling to us where to walk and where…
After casting the movie version of your book, thinking about your cover is a writer’s favorite day dream. I know. I used to attended cover design meetings every week — easily the…
One risk with badly organized improv training is it can allow people with low listening skills to run wild. It’s important to make sure those who take a measured approach to communication have space to reply and act. This is true in both in improv and collaborative conversations. A good improv practioner and coach will ensure this doesn’t happen of…
3D Exterior Rendering is always an exercise in managing how much computer power that…
Second semester has officially started, but I am still waiting for my brain to keep up with the changing pace. In the aftermath of finishing the dreaded dissertation with a multitude of days lazy beyond imagination, there’s a feeling in the studio that a couple of days may be needed for…
Hello, everyone! So here we are with our daily dosage of inspiration to help you boost your creativity level! Here you’ll find the newest and most interesting work curated by our team to inspire your day.
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With this infograph we want to emphasize the importance of colour in your lifeThe colours of the rooms in your home are directly reflects your personality.Colour effects people in many ways…
We’re not building an app for everyone.
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