Anatomy of a Design Decision | Jared Spool | Live at An Event Apart
Anatomy of a Design Decision | Jared Spool | Live at An Event Apart | Video.
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Designing a Mobile App? Don’t Make These 10 Mistakes
Designing a Mobile App? Don’t Make These 10 Mistakes.
Mistakes are always made when doing any project, but if we can think ahead and do our best to avoid these type of mistakes, we’ll be one step ahead of the game.
1. Don’t Begin Wireframes or Designs Without a Flowmap
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Why UX Design is Like a Wardrobe of Clothes
Why UX Design is Like a Wardrobe of Clothes.
In short, both are a combination of different items that make a visually pleasing whole. If you’re still a little unsure about this comparison, don’t worry. By the end of this article, everything will make much more sense.
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Mobile UI Design Patterns: 10+ Sites for Inspiration
Mobile UI Design Patterns: 10+ Sites for Inspiration.
I think i’ve posted this before on here, but it’s worth a repeat.
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GDS design principles
https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples
This is a great way to think about what we do and the principles behind it all. At least one take at it.
Government Digital Service
Design Principles
Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.- Start with needs*
- Do less
- Design with data
- Do the hard work to make it simple
- Iterate. Then iterate again.
- Build for inclusion
- Understand context
- Build digital services, not websites
- Be consistent, not uniform
- Make things open: it makes things better
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A New Make Mantra: A Statement of Design Intent | Mark Boulton
A New Make Mantra: A Statement of Design Intent | Mark Boulton.
interesting concept. Make Mantra.
Recently, I’ve been trying to go back to something a bit more formal and create a single, actionable sentence that can be used to guide a project. This started out as a selfish endevour: I had trouble keeping all of this project stuff in my head in a way that could help my design work. It needed to be simpler.
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Why Do Magazines Look So Terrible on the iPad 3?
More rez problems for the iPad.
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greg
Designing the Perfect Call to Action
Designing the Perfect Call to Action
Every email you send should have a purpose, and that purpose should be reflected in the call to action (CTA). If you’re not sure what your call to action should be, ask yourself the following questions:
“What do I want the recipient to do?”
“How will they know how to do it?”
“What’s the benefit to them?”
Paired with the tips from this infographic, the answers to these questions can help you optimize your email design and reach your goals!
Creating Calls to Action
Don’t forget there are no rules when it comes to creating great calls to action, just guidelines. What works for your competitor, your friend or your mom might not work for you!
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Incredible mockup of Windows desktop gone Metro-like | The Verge
Incredible mockup of Windows desktop gone Metro-like | The Verge.
Microsoft should call this guy up ASAP and just hire him so they can use this UI. Great work.
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who ever gave this 3 stars needs to be shot.
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Create a gingerbread man icon | IconFinder blog
Create a gingerbread man icon | IconFinder blog.
A little holiday tutorial for yinz designer types.
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Create a Steel, Vector Power Button Set | Vectortuts+
Create a Steel, Vector Power Button Set | Vectortuts+.
This is a great tutorial about how to make the latest trend in icons and UI elements.
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How to Design Functional Sub-Navigation Menus
How to Design Functional Sub-Navigation Menus.
Sub navigation can be VERY tricky when considering a new site design, especially when doing a responsive site design with possibly 4 levels of sub nav.
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greg
Modal Windows In Modern Web Design – Smashing Magazine
In user interface design, a modal window is a child window that requires users to interact with it before they can return to operating the parent application, thus preventing the workflow on the application main window. Modal windows are often called heavy windows or modal dialogs because the window is often used to display a dialog box.
Modal windows are commonly used in GUI systems to command user awareness and to display emergency states. On the Web, they are often used to show images in detail.
Use cases
Frequent uses of modal windows include:
- Drawing attention to vital pieces of information. This use has been criticised as ineffective because users are bombarded with too many dialog boxes, and habituate to simply clicking “Close”, “Cancel”, or “OK” without reading or understanding the message.
- Blocking the application flow until information required to continue is entered, as for example a password in a login process. Another example are file dialogs to open and save files in an application.
- Collecting application configuration options in a centralized dialog. In such cases, typically the changes are applied upon closing the dialog, and access to the application is disabled while the edits are being made.
- Warning that the effects of the current action are not reversible. This is a frequent interaction pattern for modal dialogs, but it is also criticised by usability experts as being ineffective for its intended use (protection against errors in destructive actions) due to habituation. Actually making the action reversible (providing an “undo” option) is recommended instead.
check out a nice set of modals @ Modal Windows In Modern Web Design – Smashing Magazine.
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What’s different about mobile UX design? | @dmitryn/blog
What’s different about mobile UX design? | @dmitryn/blog.
Excellent article especially:
2) Consistency with the overall device experience is more important than consistency across platforms.
The “uncanny valley” that results from porting an app design straight from one platform to another, or attempting to mimic native UI elements in a web app as closely as possible, is especially to be avoided.
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Why Does Interaction Design Matter? Lets Look At The Evolving Subway Experience | Co. Design
Why Does Interaction Design Matter? Lets Look At The Evolving Subway Experience | Co. Design.
EXCELLENT ARTICLE about interaction design!
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greg
23 horizontal scrolling emails from Style Campaign
Horizontal emails inspire strong feelings among designers. Depending which side you come down on, horizontal emails are either cutting edge and artistic or counter-intuitive and pretentious.
Horizontal emails tend to be image based, favored by B2C rather than B2B. The side scrolling layout breaks convention, so navigational cues and intuitive design will determine if your email frustrates or delights.
Here’s twenty-three rare, outside-of-the-box, experimental horizontal emails.
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10 excellent blogs about industrial design
10 excellent blogs about industrial design.
If creatively you’re ever in a rut, I always find Industrial Design to be a great way get inspiration. Here are 10 blogs that focus just on that.
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Designed QR codes: the next level | Webdesigner Depot
Designed QR codes: the next level | Webdesigner Depot.
Designer QR Codes are hot… as far as QR codes are concerned i guess.
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Adobe Muse: a step in the wrong direction » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks
Adobe Muse: a step in the wrong direction » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks.
Great read and even better comments about this weird app that Adobe is putting out. Instead of making Dreamweaver the best it can be, they’ve been wasting time trying to create a product to try to get print designers who don’t understand the web… into the web. Not sure what the motivation for this is?
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