April 2010
2 posts
March 2010
8 posts
February 2010
6 posts
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
2 posts
NeXT →
lemme:
Paul Rand’s presentation materials (or something) for the NeXT identity, 1986.
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
4 posts
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Venusian Time or Flow
When I was a kid I used to spend a lot of time in the school library. I’m was not an avid reader, I was a geek. I loved browsing through tons of book. I would read a little and then skip to the next one. One of the subjects I was always fascinated with was Greek Mythology and culture.
I once read how the greeks had different concepts of time:
Chronological Time
Named after the god Khronos....
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May 2009
2 posts
On Engineering and Design: An Open Letter →
Bill Buxton offers an interesting opinion on the designer/engineer relationship. I really like his layered approach.
April 2009
3 posts
The great OK/Cancel button dilemma →
These ambiguities always drive me nuts, it is so hard to put the issue to rest and be done with it. Jure does a good job at laying it to rest. It would be great to have an OS sniffer that switches the buttons to follow the respective HIG.
March 2009
2 posts
Affordance
“…the term affordance refers to the perceived and actual properties of the thing, primarily those fundamental properties that determine just how the thing could possibly be used. […] Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things. Plates are for pushing. Knobs are for turning. Slots are for inserting things into. Balls are for throwing or bouncing. When affordances...
February 2009
4 posts
“Design is about delayering complexity to understand and make it better. Making...”
– Jim Hackett (via fingerskneesandtoes)
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Google monitors your home power consumption.
Google just launched PowerMeter, a tool that lets you track and visualize you home power consumption. Initially, the tinkerer in me rejoices at the prospect of going through all of this data seeing how my seasonal habits and moods change the results. But I already spend too much time in the supermarket reading nutritional labels. Too much of my free time is spend going through my last.fm stats, my...
January 2009
3 posts
“Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés...”
– Paul Rand
Component libraries and personal style
One thing that I have noticed around my team, is that when creating wireframes people are not really using component libraries as much. Instead, we tend to copy and paste from older files. Why is this? From asking around it seems like the biggest reason is personal style. This seems odd because we are talking about components for wireframes which should be devoid of style. The thing is the...
December 2008
1 post
November 2008
2 posts
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Creating user needs
I work at a digital marketing/advertising agency and the time when I see the most contrast is at the beginning of a project when I am defining user needs. More often than not, I find myself with little to none user needs and a some user wants. In addition to that the type of project calls for the “creation” of user needs. It’s advertisement after all! But I still thing that they need to be...
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“Great Design is about solutions, not a container for features.”
October 2008
2 posts
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones...”
– Scott Adams
September 2008
2 posts
“I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has...”
– William McDonough
August 2008
1 post
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July 2008
4 posts
WatchMicrosoft’s Sphere Display
Aside from your standard picture browser, I thought that the omnidirectional camera application is particularly promising for communication purposes.
Adding UX work to Agile Development →
I have been working on integrating Agile Software Development to the creative process of the agency where I work. It’s nice to see some of that thinking validated by this article.
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Fragmented Experiences
The way that people are interacting with brands has changed in many ways. The customer is moving from passive consumption to active participation, and brands are starting to focus on target users instead of target audience.
Traditionally, businesses were limited to discrete touch points with their customers, most of them through analog media. Nowadays, there is an infinite numbers of ways, both...