Michael Bierut: 5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks
This is fantastic presentation from Pentagram's Michael Bierut at The 99 Percent conference. Shows how a quiet, humble, and empathetic bedside manner can be such useful attributes in a...
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Ultimate Guide To Grid-Based Web Design
Noupe offers up a complete guide to techniques and tools for designing web layouts with grids. Includes basic information about grid design, links to more articles on specific aspects of grid-based...
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Typograph
Iain Lamb's Typograph is cool tool that allows you to explore the relationship between scale and rhythm by modifying the properties of typographic elements in a page of sample text.It sets out to...
View ArticleUX Case Study: Designing a user-focused web app
Insight into the complete design process for the redesign of Nearby Tweets. Web app developers and entrepreneurs will hopefully gain some ideas or reinforce their own processes. Users may find it...
View ArticleHow wireframing makes your website designs better
The value of wireframing comes down to a simple idea: Wireframing forces you to think about your user interface design decisions in terms of user needs first, instead of in terms of what looks...
View ArticleDesign better websites by thinking about your kitchen cabinets
For years I’ve been trying to fix a critical home design problem: How to organize the dishes in my cabinets. While fitting dishes into cabinet space seems like a simple design problem, it actually has...
View ArticleEye Candy vs. Bare Bones in UI Design
The general public seems to be kind of shallow when it comes to user interfaces. They think “prettier = better”. A couple of gradients here, some fancy translucent buttons and there you go: an...
View ArticleAll the Right Way to Wireframe Videos
I wanted to capture all of the slides and videos into one entry to compare each of the guys' approaches. The right way? There isn't one right way. That's the point. The one thread that does carry...
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iPad Templates and Stencils
Emily Chang rounds up the offering of iPad UI stencils. Some nice OmniGraffle and Photoshop sets in there.
View ArticleDoes your website add features or solve problems?
A big downfall in the IT industry is fixing inventing a problem that doesn’t need fixed. “Problems” are fabricated and “fixed” because we’re too eager to use new technology. This eagerness manifests...
View ArticleEstimated reading time in web design
About 2 years ago he wrote an “Alertbox” titled How little do users read?. His research suggests that users will read only 18% of your content. Given that I spend a few minutes editing each sentence I...
View ArticleThe UPA2010 International Conference, "Embracing Cultural Diversity, User...
REGISTER by 15 April for your chance to save over $200USD! https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/upa_conference/app/registration/e...What’s New?Session Spotlight - Thursday 27 May, 2010 90 minute...
View ArticleRachel Hinman (Nokia Research Lab) talks about UX design in emerging markets...
“Technology is a Cultural Practice”- Opening keynote, Rachel Hinman (Nokia Research Lab)UPA 2010 opens with this fabulous keynote that represents the conference theme so well: "Embracing Cultural...
View ArticleThe UX of video games hits the mainsteam: Find out about games user research...
“Games user research – A journey through the methods for testing “fun” – Panel, David Tisserand (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)David Tisserand of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, fresh from...
View ArticleThe iPad is a Toy
"Apple said Monday that it sold more than 300,000 iPads on the day of its launch, ushering in a new era of people buying things to find out what they are." -- Seth Meyer for Weekend Update on SNL.I...
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Salacious Swapping on Design Swap
I love the idea of Design Swap, even if it reminds me of Wife Swap, key parties, the swinging '70s and that movie Ice Storm. It's better, because it's an exhibitionist, one-to-one CSS Zen Garden style...
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visualizing.org
Visualizing.org looks like an exciting new community devoted to information design and sensemaking--making sense of complex issues through data and design. An excerpt from their about page describes...
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Overhauling Balsamiq.com
We launched an overhauled Balsamiq.com this week and I wrote about the effort. In addition to doing interface design on the product (myBalsamiq mostly up to now) I also get to be the "webmaster." :)...
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Sarah Sampsel on Designing The Washington Post for iPad
Sarah Sampsel wrote about designing the Washington Post iPad app, in 2 entries describing a little bit about the process. The first entry describes the types of interaction, visual design, and brand...
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Refactoring for designers
Ryan Singer at 37signals explains code refactoring to designers so that they can use it correctly in a design context.Designers sometimes use the word “refactor” in a loose way. I think they overhear...
View ArticleHave a nice day
Don't let anyone tell you that the tools you choose are wrong or inappropriate. Find the right design and keep winning.Occasionally I'm asked to provide an opinion about a topic that people think I...
View ArticleWhy The Valley Wants Designers That Can Code
Jared Spool talks about why designers who code are popular in Silicon Valley right now, and for the most part, it boils down to this. Small software and web startups value and are able to use a broader...
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Letting Go
Two great slides from Yiibu's presentation, Letting Go, a talk about design in an time of increasing disruption."Issuing your customers with something that is rough, incomplete, and possibly even...
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Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation
Adam Pritzker deftly combined this image of an Apple I and this Steve Jobs quote on design from an interview in 2000 that appeared in Fortune.“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s...
View ArticleOffscreen Magazine
Offscreen is a print magazine that takes an in-depth look at the life and work of people that create websites and apps. They're interested in telling the less obvious human stories of creativity,...
View ArticleRealizing Empathy: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making
Seung Chan Lim, better known as Slim, spent 10 years making software, working in computer science and interaction design at MAYA Design where he was the Assistant Director of Engineering. After some...
View ArticleYour app is a collection of tiny details
"Getting the details right is the difference between something that delights, and something customers tolerate."—Jeff AtwoodI didn't read Jeff Atwood's article about cat feeders right away, because it...
View ArticleGoodUI Newsletter: Ideas for getting good conversion rates
Jakub Linowski, creator of Wireframes Magazine just started writing a newsletter called Good UI on how to design sites that are easy to use and also yield high conversion rates.He's looking at how to...
View ArticleHow might we...
We know that starting with why is important to product design, but what comes next? "How" would definitely come soon after. But there are many ways to propose how to begin exploring possibilities. The...
View Article99u Conference Notes: Quirky Studio Visit with Ben Kaufman
A group of 99u attendees had a visit with Ben Kaufman, the CEO/founder of product development company Quirky, who gave us a look into how his company uses crowd-sourcing to deliver products. Here are...
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