Tag Archives: design
Why Disney Interactive is Outsourcing to Latin America
Creativity and design are essential in today’s world. According to Forbes, we now live in the era of design. Just note the success of Apple, whose sole purpose seems to be designing beautiful products their customers love. The importance of creativity and design on the U.S. economy can be seen in the video game industry. [...]
Universal Principles of Design
Universal Principles of Design it’s a quite recommendable book about design concepts in general: it doesn’t speak about software or product design only. In fact, it doesn’t even focus on design as much as the concepts that are hiding beneath the good designs, which are the main theme of the book. Serving more as a [...]
What I Learned at An Event Apart, Austin 2012
Speakers at this year’s An Event Apart in Austin were awesome. A big thank you to Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Mayer and their team for staging such a great three-day event. Takeaways and memorable presentations include: Responsive Web Design presented By Ethan Marcotte Ethan shows us how, with the ever-changing internet, we need to factor “responsive [...]
Evolving Signs Of Progress
It’s impossible to ignore the evolution of app and OS interfaces. Online especially, we now see more colors, rounded shapes, animation and feedback showing what’s going on minute by minute. Some of the most improved elements are progress indicators. Once these were simple lines in a console made from the characters ‘-‘, ‘/’, ‘|’ and [...]
Ten Books To Boost Your Experience Of User Experience
Today, User Experience is almost universally associated with digital media and devices. Yet long before the internet or iPlayer, people were struggling with how to make products more usable by the people they’re intended for. Books, in particular, developed whole architectures and navigation tools – from prologues, introductions, chapters and appendixes to page numbers, footnotes [...]
Your Ticket To The Metro UI Express
Want to boost your interfaces with the sleek, modern looks of Microsoft’s new design language, Metro? For sure, its bold typography – inspired by signs on public transport systems – sets Metro apart from icon-based UIs like Windows, Android and iOS. But Metro is so different you might think it’s difficult to implement. What we [...]
