Posts Tagged ‘Design’
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Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves
- February 14th, 2012
- 28 Comments
Have you ever looked at a bizarre building design and wondered, “What were the architects thinking?” Or have you simply felt frustrated by a building that made you uncomfortable, or felt anger when a beautiful old building was razed and replaced with a contemporary eyesore? You might be forgiven for thinking ...
Read more...Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App
- January 31st, 2012
- 27 Comments
Like most well-designed things, the magic of an iPad app comes from a union of usefulness, usability and meaning. Games aside, the app must be useful by solving a problem that people actually have through the right set of functionality at the right time. It must be easy to use ...
Read more...What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design
- January 24th, 2012
- 54 Comments
Web design is a craft that is constantly evolving and yet also sometimes sabotaged. The moment a design is released, a new version is born. In the beginning, like a baby, it seems vulnerable and weak, but in time it grows up and becomes self-sufficient. Redesigning a website for its ...
Read more...Designing The Well-Tempered Web
- January 17th, 2012
- 28 Comments
As technology evolves, so does the art and craft of Web design. New technology creates new challenges, which require new solutions. Often we’re working in uncharted territory, where the solutions demanded really are new. Other times, we’re faced with problems of a more universal nature, problems that have a history. Given ...
Read more...Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows
- January 4th, 2012
- 49 Comments
For designers, it’s easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before giving the user experience the consideration it deserves. Too often, we prematurely turn our focus to page design and information architecture, when we should focus on the user flows that need to be supported by ...
Read more...Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro
- December 20th, 2011
- 25 Comments
Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 (WP7), introduces a fresh approach to content organization and a different UX, based on the Metro design language and principles that will be incorporated into Windows 8. It also targets a different market than its predecessor: instead of being designed mainly for ...
Read more...Content Strategy Within The Design Process
- December 2nd, 2011
- 27 Comments
The first thing to understand about content strategy is that no two people understand it the same way. It’s a relatively new — and extremely broad — discipline with no single definitive definition. A highly informative Knol on content strategy defines it as follows: “Content strategy is an emerging field ...
Read more...The Perfect Paragraph
- November 29th, 2011
- 58 Comments
In this article, I’d like to reacquaint you with the humble workhorse of communication that is the paragraph. Paragraphs are everywhere. In fact, at the high risk of stating the obvious, you are reading one now. Despite their ubiquity, we frequently neglect their presentation. This is a mistake. Here, we’ll ...
Read more...The Big Think: Breaking The Deliverables Habit
- November 22nd, 2011
- 31 Comments
Right there in the center of my boilerplate for design proposals is a section that I glare at with more resentment each time I complete it. It’s called “Deliverables,” and it’s there because clients expect it: a list of things I’ll deliver for the amount of money that I specify ...
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