Categories: Design Theory

We love pixels! They’re the building blocks of all the visual design we do here at ustwo™, but are so often relegated to mere afterthought in the excitement of working with colours and styles. We induct all our designers into the school of pixels with o ...

Resource - Gyppsy - May 14, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

I have been trying to show on a web page escalating urgency by changing the colors on the surrounding box of a field slowly at first. The idea is to paint the box from blue and green toward red. Here is a sample of what I have created so far. It's ki ...

Resource - Stephen Shooster - January 04, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Principles of Software Engineering Management is designed to help software engineers and project managers understand and solve problems involved in developing complex software systems—providing practical guidelines and tools for managing the technic ...

Resource - Tom Gilb - October 25, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Insightful and entertaining, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum finds author Alan Cooper using his experiences in corporate America to illustrate how talented people continuously design bad software-based products and why we need technology to work ...

Resource - Alan Cooper - October 25, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product, but you can increase your odds by understanding understand users' reasons for doing things. Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. Adaptive ...

Resource - Indi Young - October 11, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

  Emotional Design explores the deep influence the feelings that objects evoke have on consumers—from our willingness to spend thousands of dollars on Gucci bags and Rolex watches, to the impact of emotion on the everyday objects being desig ...

Resource - Donald Norman - October 11, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. ...

Resource - Donald Norman - July 24, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

James Kelway started the Six Circles – an Experience Design Framework, as an enquiry into how different design principles can be applied to the field of digital product design. The principles studied led to the emergence of six core themes; persuasio ...

Resource - James Kelway - February 16, 2012 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity ...

Resource - John Maeda - February 16, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

This Epub version was created for Macs first, however, however, you can use http://www.magicscroll.net/ as a Chrome plugin or for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/epubreader/ . Or you can download the PDF version here: Six ...

Resource - James Kelway - February 01, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments