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- Pleasant Things Work Better
Evolutionary psychology tells us that humans are programmed to prefer bright colors, sweet flavors, and roundness of shapes. We are attuned to these things for survival: awareness of danger or safety, sources of energy, and choosing a healthy mate. ...
Article - Dana Chisnell - January 25, 2011 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- 10 Surefire Ways to Screw Up Your iPhone App
So you want to build the next smash hit iPhone app? Extraordinary design is key to getting the attention of users and of Apple, so if an app exudes a stench of mediocrity, Apple won’t feature it and app shoppers probably won’t download it (even if they ...
Article - Jeremy Olson - December 09, 2010 - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- So You Want To Be A Designer: Top 5 List
Getting started in user experience can be difficult. Our profession has an identity crisis. You need look no further than swarm of acronyms that we hide behind: CHI, HCI, UI, UE, UX, IA, ID, IxD, IxSD… the list goes on. Our identity crisis means lea ...
Article - Aza Raskin - October 28, 2010 - 20 comments - 0 attachments
- Making the URL Bar Useful Again
Title 2: Where the breadcrumb should have been all along The browser is an excellent tool. It's ubiquitous, simple to operate, and extremely powerful. What's more, ...
Article - Devin Coldewey - September 09, 2010 - 62 comments - 0 attachments
- Biological Motion and Happy Interfaces
Title 2: What Pixar and Apple Can Teach Us About Infusing Products With Personality Quick: which operating system do you think is happier, Windows or OS X? Even if you' ...
Article - Alex Faaborg - April 14, 2010 - 15 comments - 0 attachments
- Help Them Help You
Title 2: Everyone on your team should know Web design fundamentals Bad Web design is usually easy to spot. Even the “untrained” eye gets cross when visiting a site ...
Article - Megan O. Read - April 12, 2010 - 12 comments - 0 attachments
- Eye 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 interface that's just overflowing with awesomeness. ...
Article - Max Steenbergen - March 26, 2010 - 20 comments - 0 attachments
- Predictable Design
The $64,000 question in software industry today is: How do you transform a software design process into its ideal form—an objective, deliberate activity that furthers the cause of commerce—from its typically subjective, clumsy one, which always seem ...
Article - Nishant Kothary - February 22, 2010 - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- Realism in UI Design
The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects , shadows, translucency, ...
Article - Lukas Mathis - January 25, 2010 - 33 comments - 0 attachments
- Where Wireframes Are Concerned
While there remain certain specific contexts where it is advisable to craft and present wireframe layouts for client evaluation and approval, this practice is often a really bad move and one made at the wrong moment in the design process, and for th ...
Article - Andy Rutledge - December 10, 2009 - 30 comments - 0 attachments