#design (850 links)
- UI-patterns.com ui-patterns.com
User Interface Design pattern library.
- Virtual Hosting Blog » Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies virtualhosting.com
A few tips from eye-tracking studies
- Supermarket – Great design, straight from designers. supermarkethq.com
- Managing design designcouncil.org.uk
Articles on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success.
- Content AND Presentation : Journal : Mark Boulton markboulton.co.uk
"Typography has an important place in the web at the moment. Social interaction, and how to design for it, it a hot design topic [...] But don’t forget that the medium of social interaction is language, and the way language is shaped and looks is typogr
- Dopplr Blog » In rainbows blog.dopplr.com
"We take the MD5 digest of the city’s name, convert it to hex and take the first 6 characters as a CSS RGB value." Smart.
- russell davies: applied green russelldavies.typepad.com
Can we encourage and direct desire in a way that satisfies people's desire to consume (and therefore allows businesses to charge them money for something and keep the wheels of capitalism turning) without creating endless torrents of new stuff.
- 30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of | Know-How smashingmagazine.com
30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood.
- Design Observer: writings about design & culture designobserver.com
I’ve discovered a grim-faced resistance movement amongst dozens of tiny record labels determined to hang onto physical packaging and expressive cover art, no matter what.
- ClickTale Blog » ClickTale Scrolling Research Report V2.0 - Part 1: Visibility and Scroll Reach blog.clicktale.com
Visitors appear to be using the location of the scroll bar but not the size of the tracker when scrolling, since the scroll bar location is a relative indicator and the scroll tracker size is an indicator of page height.
- Streamlining HP - Sam Lucente - Design - Blackbird fastcompany.com
"The "attitude," as it came to be known, was built around three core attributes: inspired, genuine, trusted. Innocuous as they seem, they were vivid enough for a group of designers to begin to articulate a common visual language."
- Summary of my Playful IAs argument (Leapfroglog) leapfrog.nl
A lot of traditional IA practice doesn’t make sense anymore. Instead of directly designing an information space, you’re better off designing the rules that underly the generative construction of such spaces.
- :: CordHog :: Untangle :: cordhog.com
Life has cords, and cords get tangled. CORDhogs take up the extra slack to adjust your cord to just the right length.
Buy advertising ideas for your company by +9000 creatives worldwide. Faster, Better, Cheaper.
It all unfolded over a website called OpenAd.net, a Slovenian-based online marketplace where ad and design ideas from about 9,000 creatives worldwide are bought and sold.
- ActsAsUndoable | Javascript nodetraveller.com
Unlock the secrets to your advertising/creative agency’s happiness, fame and fortune.
- The Masterplan | The Morning After themasterplan.in
The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. [...] The theme design is grid-based and has the following requested features:
- 10 colour contrast checking tools to improve the accessibility of your design | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Plus some useful general information on contrast issues.
- London Design Festival 2007 londondesignfestival.com
"There is an amazing amount to see and do at this year's London Design Festival." Perhaps too much...! Takes place between 15 and 25 September.
- Good vs. Great Design cameronmoll.com
- The Experience Stack (Schulze & Webb) schulzeandwebb.com
Matt Webb's excellent dConstruct presentation; "...highlights products demonstrating different layers of the experience stack, and the rationale for designing for good experience."
- Pulse Laser » Blog Archive » The Experience Stack revisited schulzeandwebb.com
The experience stack is a way of thinking about the different levels at which experience design operates.
- Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » IA for beginners: long pages work. poorbuthappy.com
"Scrolling works. Long pages work. Anything else tends to be informationarchitecturitis (which I define as “the practice of adding too much structure when it’s not needed and even gets in the way”)." But not all the time, naturally.
- Design Inside Yahoo!: George Oates | unraveled unraveled.com
I talked to George about Flickr’s beginnings at Ludicorp, its place in Yahoo!’s social media strategy and the Flickr design process.
- adaptive path » an interview with flickr's eric costello adaptivepath.com
From 2005. Background.
- adaptive path » blog » Dan Saffer » UXweek2007: Leisa Reichelt on Waterfall Bad, Washing Machine Good adaptivepath.com
Notes from Leisa Richelt presentation.
The design firm DIY Kyoto (as in Kyoto Protocol) recently began selling a device called the Wattson, which not only shows your energy usage but can also transmit the data to a Web site, letting you compare yourself with other Wattson users worldwide.
- Bug & Issue Tracking | GarrettDimon.com garrettdimon.com
"I decided some time ago that if I was going to build an issue tracker that I’d have to start by creating a simple issue life-cycle and workflow...." Garrett's working on an issue tracker.
- Colour Contrast Visualiser | stainlessvision stainlessvision.com
This tool allows you to visualise good colour combinations on a Photoshop style colour picker. It's primary use is finding acceptable colours from an existing inaccessible combination - while maintaining the aesthetic appeal of the original.
- Subtraction: The Framework Formally Known as ’Prints subtraction.com
Khoi Vinh interviews Olav Frihagen, creator of Blueprint framework.
The more engaged users are, the more features an application can sustain. But most users have low commitment -- especially to websites, which must focus on simplicity, rather than features.
Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.
- Starting out: Creatives clued in to 'Generation C' | Small Business | Business | Money | Telegraph telegraph.co.uk
"It was a leap of faith. By mid-2006, Matt Webb and Jack Schulze had been meandering along, doing a few jobs together and talking about "crazy ideas"."
- The Learn List thelearnlist.com
A super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web.
This page collects all my published work related to information architecture and user experience.
- Five simple steps to better typography : Journal : Mark Boulton markboulton.co.uk
"The kind of typography I'm talking about is not your typical "What font should I use" typography but rather your "knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash" typography."
- Pixelmator pixelmator.com
OS X image editor (Photoshop alternative?) Due soon. Looks pretty natty.