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Easily customize animation settings: style, delay, length, offset, iterations…
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Most businesses — especially small companies and startups — can’t afford to hire a dedicated UX designer, but that shouldn’t stop them from adopting some UX techniques. Trust me, it’s much easier than you think.
read the whole huge thing at Pragmatic UX Techniques For Smarter Websites | Smashing UX Design.
“To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse.” – Paul Rand
read the deets  @ Principles of User Interface Design.
It’s never a great idea to blindly follow trends, but it’s good to know what they are. It’s kind of similar to the old maxim that ‘you have to know the rules to break the rules’.
But in fractured and disjointed world, working out what the latest visual design trends actually are can be difficult. A trend might be big in Europe but absent in North America; yet with more demand for designs that appeal across international boundaries, how do you get a handle on what will work?
Well one way is to analyse the raw data. Image library Shutterstock is in a good position to do just that – and so for its third annual global design trends infographic it extracted details of over 350 million downloads and found some revealing patterns.
Infographic: Shutterstock’s Global Design Trends 2014 — The Shutterstock Blog.
Whether you design for print, web or mobile, getting your typography right is essential if you want to get your message across in the way you, or your client, intended.
Here we look at common type mistakes, how you can avoid them and offer up some further reading along the way.
read up on The 10 commandments of typography @ Creative Bloq.
And the 11th commandment…
Thou shalt not use Comic Sans.Â
Is space above the fold still valuable in 2014?
At the end of 2013, Peep Laja spoke at SearchLove about the Principles of Persuasive Web Design. He had observed that despite it being 2013 (now 2014) and us living in a much more scroll-oriented world, content placed above the fold was still grabbing 80% of our attention.
Found this excellent site today. I signed up for updates – it’s that fresh.
Try Transitions instead of showing changes instantly.
Interface elements often appear, hide, move, shift, and resize as users do their thing. As elements respond to our interactions, it sometimes is a little easier to comprehend what just happened when we sprinkle in the element of time. A built in intentional delay in the form of an animation or transition, respects cognition and gives people the required time to understand a change in size or position. Keep in mind of course that as we start increasing the duration of such transitions beyond 0.5 seconds, there will be situations where people might start feeling the pain. For those who just wish to get things done quickly, too long of a delay of course can be a burden.
Just a growing list of common UI practices to get the best possible design. Lots of great ideas @Â GoodUI.
pretty sure i posted this about 6 months ago… BOOM!
What Is Usability?
Usability is at the heart of the user experience. Poor usability can lead users to abandon sites and it can even cost businesses thousands and thousands of dollars. Usability is measured in terms of a number of different dimensions; satisfy these and the user experience should improve in turn. Testing involving real users presents a relatively cheap approach to identifying and eradicating design problems. The gains associated with a user-centred approach can prove enormous for businesses, as it might be the difference between users sticking with a device/system or abandoning it in favour of a competitor.
via User Experience.
A tremendous and ever growing depository of statistically driven data points that could be very useful in convincing stakeholders of the validity of proposed design choices.
So there are common punctuation errors that crop up again and again in web interfaces, and do much to confuse users. Here are the key problems.
read the whole thing @Â 5 Common Punctuation Problems to Avoid – SitePoint.
Why is this important? Because every element of your site speaks to the user on some level… and the negatives add up.
dont: use completely ridiculous captions for important photos…
“person’s name == died in 2010 crash”
Former Pittsburgh police officer convicted of homicide by vehicle – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
What is the main benefit we can gain from the use of this attribute? Thanks to it, web developers can target users on high-resolution displays with a high-resolution image source or different types of screens with other versions of images. In the first case users on lower pixel density displays won’t be saddled with the wasteful bandwidth cost of downloading a useless massive high-resolution image, while the latter can enjoy the power of their screen. In the second situation, we can specify a different image for different screen sizes, in order to provide an image that is more focused on the users’ device.
Many web-developers struggle with the quality of chrome’s web font rendering. As web fonts become an industry standard in web-design, it is only a matter of time before chrome improves their webfont rendering. In the meantime, it would be nice to have a fix. You probably keep seeing little CSS tricks floating around out there involving a text-stroke, invisible shadows… even tilting the font 1 degree to force chrome to use anti-aliasing. Some tricks work well, but only on certain sizes. The problem is some of these tricks fail in the next release of Chrome, and/or worse, they don’t degrade well, wreaking havok on your website’s typography.
IcoMoon was first built and released back in the November of 2011 and it is currently operating under Roonas. Since its release, IcoMoon has changed the way icon fonts (and icons in general) are being used in web today. IcoMoon introduced the first custom icon font builder, which allows users to select the icons they need, and make them into a font.
unsuck  it aims to unsuck those stupid terms we hear all the time.
so Browse Unsuck It.
check out  JSDB.io – The Database of JavaScript Libraries.
For websites using progressive enhancement or responsive techniques it’s often useful to get track of the viewport-width in JavaScript, e.g. for loading images in different resolutions with ajax. While it’s easy in CSS3 to change styles for different desktop resolutions based on media queries, JavaScript just offers approaches like window.clientWidth() to determine the width. Which doesn’t give you nice “breakpoints” of media queries. To couple JavaScript with CSS3 settings Emil Björklund proposed to use the content element of an :after pseudo-element.
With the recent changes in Google’s search data no longer being included in GA – here is a technique to reintroduce to reports
http://www.niswey.com/blog/how-to-capture-not-provided-data/
The difference between UX content and web content falls loosely in line with the function versus form adage. One aims to make the product easy to use, the other aims to make it beautiful. But there are also key differences in workflow and mindset.
read more @Â Three Lessons Learned Doing Content Strategy for a Startup | UX Magazine.
By now you’ve probably heard at least something about animation in CSS3 using keyframe-based syntax. The CSS3 animations module in the specification has been around for a couple of years now, and it has the potential to become a big part of Web design.
Using CSS3 keyframe animations, developers can create smooth, maintainable animations that perform relatively well and that don’t require reams of scripting. It’s just another way that CSS3 is helping to solve a real-world problem in an elegant manner. If you haven’t yet started learning the syntax for CSS3 animations, here’s your chance to prepare for when this part of the CSS3 spec moves past the working draft stage.
check out: An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations – Smashing Magazine.
someone somewhere find a project where I can do this.
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