Design

Machine Learning and UX

It Doesn’t Exist Yet

If you’re in the tech industry at this point in human history you probably hear something about machine learning and artificial intelligence at least once a day. Many companies that have been around the technological block for…

ダイアログ:選択肢の並び順

下の二つはMacとWindowsのExcelのダイアログです。ボタンの並び順に注目してみると「保存」「保存しない」「キャンセル」の並び順が双方で異なっています。さて、この様な並び順になっているのは何故でしょうか。

UX Designer’s survival guide to working in a product team

“It is not the strongest or the most…

Mitigating CSS gradient banding

Original story posted on Sep 16, 2016.

While working on a design that included a gradient, I noticed banding when the gradient was rendered by the browser.

UX Interviews, Stop Trump’s Wall, What Designers Can Learn From Gyms, and more UX this week

What’s hot in UX this week:

Wie de kracht van het Problem Interview ontkent is geen ontwerper.

This is simple

Let’s keep this simple. There is no justification for what is happening.

President Trump has signed an order that in effect bans people from entering the US based on their birthplace and their religion.

“Learn by Doing” — How Foxley Disrupted the Web Design Industry

It’s somewhat surprising (but…

Becoming a UX Designer Changed My Life

Since beginning my study of UX Design, I will never view anything ever the same from how I…

Making before Thinking

This week kind of felt like I was standing in front of a huge, huge mountain…

Inspect #2: Handsome Jack Rugile

Jack Rugile is a developer and game designer in Denver, CO. In addition to being an engaged member of…

Building a platform to record and share DIY projects

A Design Sprint at University

Statement of Intent / Notre Dame MFA

A portion of my application for the M.F.A. in Design at the University of Notre Dame

After a quick introduction to the idea of using drawing as a thinking tool and a briefing on the…

Essential Qualities Needed In a Good Logo Design

eggplant — a platform to shop local

The Very Beginning

“Once up a time there was a kick-ass UX design squad that was tasked with providing a solution to a soon-to-be-dead local market called Kensington Market. The squad had just two weeks to come up with an online…

Apple. Here’s a Touch ID feature to include in the next iPhone release.

Login, logout and login

Problem

1. You open an app on your iPhone and…

Architettura e comunicazione

I contenuti dei luoghi e del design

Level-Headed Advice for Getting Your First Web Designer / Developer Job

Finding your first job in the…

The most necessary Sketch plugin for UI designers

Case Study: Explore Kensington Market — Hunt, Discover, Share

Design vs Cognitive Burden

There is famous Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science researcher Herb Simon says “Solving a problem…

How product designers and engineers can work better together to ship great products (and become bff’s)

A Conversation with Spizak (Adam Spizak)

An Interview with the Award-winning Art Director

The Salmon Quiche Recipe: It's Time to Build Better Apps for Lovely Grannies

Weeknotes s01e13

Week commencing Monday 23 January

Monday

London: Assessor training at GDS.

Chuffed to be able to do this, and thankful for the nudges. Wish I’d done it sooner. No real reason why other than had my…

Punk

Back-in-the-day I was more of a Casual — Ellesse, Tacchini and Fila tracksuits. Followed by a brief B-Boy spell, going by the graffiti tag of ‘Phase’ — for reasons that thankfully now escape me — and a black bomber jacket with a RUN DMC patch on the back that was as cool then as it is today.

Who should follow to learn design & get some inspiration?

Manipulating minds

“Great design requires great psychology” — Anna Richardson Taylor

What is the difference between UI and UX?

In layman terms.

We use the term UI/UX together so much that a layman will think it is one and the same thing. Which it, mostly certainly, is not.

📖 5 Reasons why I start writing

Life is moving faster than ever and so are opportunities. Writing has many many benefits and some I…

The man who empathized with a woman

The importance of the study of user psychology for a designer cannot be overemphasized. It is well appreciated that the knowledge about nuances of behavior and the intricacies of mind affecting decisions and choices of individuals is so essential for creation of and…

Designing for Change: The Drought Assist App

Picture the scene: It is November 2016 and South Africa, at that point, had been experiencing it’s driest year since 1904 with dams at their lowest levels of 53% across the country. The Vaal Dam, which supplies the Gauteng area with water, was standing…

Transition Design Framework

Written for Transition Design, taught at Carnegie Mellon University by Terry Irwin and Gideon Kossoff

Discussion question: How can you put the Transition Design framework into action in your everyday practice/career?

WHY I DO DESIGN IN SPRINTS

A design sprint is a good start if applied well thought out, but nothing more. There`s no standard sprint to tackle every design problem. It’s just another meaningful set of…

Prototype 2: Torch Lighter

In which we learn who lights the torches and I learn the pains of building…

The dot thing.

Following the cloudy system is not my cup of coffee.

Icon Pack Review: Logicons. Talk About Fresh.

We live in the time that being different is scary, in the time that only the…

Life experience (Chapter 2)

Before going any further with searching the answer to the big question of life, let’s jump back to the years of my university studies once again.

It was the last semester. I felt confident about finishing it. I managed until now, so shouldn’t be a problem…

Making the least lucrative seem super lucrative!

Make your design thinking program turn into something real

Why a big part of the design thinking projects in corporate world never pass through the prototype phase?

For the last years I’ve been involved with many design thinking projects. Many of them related to…

After Effects Mini-Assignment — Interaction Design Lab

For our first mini-assignment, we were tasked with creating a custom After Effects animation based on a UI transition library we were provided.

Why I’ve decided to ditch my personal site and publish in Medium

I am in user experience design. I love how multi-disciplinary this field is. There are ethnographers and researchers, interaction designers and content writers, interface and visual designers, and even front-end…

User Interviews, Research + Surveys

Thinking about a consumer based product or service within the context of Education was a challenging exercise. I had a hard time defining what the specific goals of the product or service would be without moving towards solutions that were either very general or very…

“Now You’re Getting Into the Technical Details.”

I hear this a lot in meetings and discussions. I am struck when I hear this because I have worked in the software businesses for many years. Worthwhile discussions about the products are going to include some technical details. The ‘technical…

CHECK. A UX Designer’s Inaugural App

Accepting any new challenge can be daunting. Diving into the world of User Experience Design was no exception. What seemed like an unfathomable task at the beginning of the week evolved into a viable product by Friday’s end. Here’s the story of how nothing became…

From Problem to Proposal (in 3 days)

a student’s project retrospective

the PROJECT:

Using the new skills and knowledge we learned during our first week in the program, we were asked to solve a problem, create a prototype…

The Eternal Junior Designer

Trainee, junior or senior. There are other labels but I’ll stick with this for now!

I believe that the internship is essential to get into the real work world with some margin for trial and error…

15 Things We Could Spend $20 Billion on Besides a Wall

I’m sure we could think of more

Day 140: A Quick Recap

Having had my concept presentation at the end of last semester, I thought it would be useful to recap what I showed during that day in order to pick up from where I left off. By doing this, I will be able to identify what I need to improve on this semester, and what I need to build upon…

Notes on VR Educational Platforms

The following are some questions and considerations one should take when looking at developing an educational experience for VR.

How accessible would each VR platform be to your target student in terms of…

Mini-Assignment 1

We were given a motion library to work with for our short animation. I wanted to create a logo/brand introductory animation for this exercise. Hence, I started by looking at some inspirational logo animations as a start.

What’s your POINT OF VIEW on design?

I read an article recently on Core77 by Jeff Salazar from LUNAR Design. One point hit me the most, and it was that he wants designers to have a point of view on design.

A stance.

My Ultimate Potential

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. “ Oprah Winfrey says.

My dream has always to been to make the best out of everything I aspire to be. Day in day out I grind in order to Sharpen and improve…

Microsoft: Das neue Apple?

Schauen Sie sich mal den neuen iMac an. Er ist von Microsoft.

This was a fantastic article and I can relate in a lot of ways during my studies in design as well. Students left and right that pluck things from the Internet and call them their own are only stunting their own personal growth.

Plagiarism in a different light can also be albeit in a weird sort of light be flattering. I’m…

Tips in Creating Kitchen With Coffee Shop Atmosphere

Starbuck is a familiar global brand, where people around the world associate it with coffee, with a cozy atmosphere, and with time for break. And in todays ‘modern culture’ where most of the work can be done with an Internet connection…

How To Set Minimum Comment Length In WordPress?

Thanks Mr Benjamin, these point are exactly my thought answers. your way to think is “quantum” thinking, not a binary/dichotomic thinking. So much taoism on that, as chinese said disaster and lucky are the same, you have to have them both. I personally working from home as forex daytrader, a lot of self reflection, self taught, self critism on the…

Best Office Fit outs Contractor in Dubai

A lot of businesses just starting out or even experienced managers will just get an initial estimate from their general contractor, and worry about the cost of a Fit-out as the job goes. Fitting out best office Fit-out can be a challenging task. It requires…

5 reasons why you need a designer in the first steps in business

Design Thinking

The idea and concept of design differs from person to person, but the overall aspect of design is the same for everyone. That being, how can a designer create a product that is good for the consumer and something he or she can be proud of. Designers solve problems by understanding the real issues behind the…

En 1986 se produjeron en torno a 50 series.

Lo que hace tan sólo unos años era sólo un sueño ahora…

Why Use In Photoshop Image Editing

Anybody may need clipping path services as it the ideal method of detaching an image from its…

How to Build a Website as Simple as Possible

Although you can sometimes buy a site as-is, the best investment is building your site from scratch. The problem is where do you start and how do you build a site from scratch? One way to get started is to use software that you can install on your web…

Problem Hunters

What problem or purpose does each of them address? Can the problem or purpose really be solved with an app? I will list them the same way they are arrange.

• The problem, is that maybe gives you clothes that you may not have, not the ones that you like ,but is also useful to…

The Website Design SEO Relationship

How to create the perfect marriage made in heaven and how to keep it going strong.

Firstly, let me explain what Search engine optimisation is. We can describe SEO as a strategy used to increase the number of visitors to your website. This…

Resist lies, alternative facts, resist hatred and intolerance. Resist thinking that anything that is happening right now should be considered in any way normal or acceptable. Resist thinking that the Statue of Liberty doesn’t have a poem that pretty much goes against this exact thing under it. And resist thinking that all Americans think the same…

Essential tools for the purpose of solid mass breaking

The solid mass breaking work undertaken by a construction company can differ depending on the type of solids and the work environment. Presently, a lot of modern equipment have evolved to make this job easier, but in some sites, the…

Apple retira la web que permitía comprobar el estado del bloqueo de activación de un iPhone

“Extremadamente preocupante” que Asghar Farhadi no pueda asistir al Oscar 2017: AMPAS

Las principales compañías tecnológicas contra Trump y su nueva política anti-refugiados

Carpet Cleansing Service — How to Choose the Right Carpet Cleaners

El ministerio de defensa británico usará un iPhone 7 para sus llamadas secretas

El día en que Stephen Hawking organizó la fiesta del siglo y no fue nadie

Si te interesa la ciencia probablemente tienes opiniones menos radicales