Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.
Bob Baxley
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Posts tagged UX
Jul15
Jul10
12 of the Year’s Best Ideas in Interface Design
Jun2
Project in Process: What is Strategy?
May16
Whitney Hess: Design Principles — The Philosophy of UX→
….we should be establishing a philosophy about how to treat people, in the same way that visual design is about establishing a philosophy about how make an impact.
Great post, a design’s value should be in direct correlation to the experience it provides. No easy task for sure, but it needs to be on your radar as a designer of anything to any degree.
* the post also gets bonus points for the shout out to Tumblr
May12
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
Milton Glaser
(Source: uxquotes.com)
May9
THE PSYCHOLOGIST’S VIEW OF UX DESIGN→
Tripped on this over the weekend, looks like it’s from about a year ago but full of great info. I thought it was interesting to get a psychologist’s point of view on UX, lots of relevant points here.
Apr17
Ignore the customer experience, lose a billion dollars (Walmart case study)→
Walmart didn’t pursue the question of what customers wanted. Instead, Walmart came up with the answer first, then asked customers to agree to it.
Mar27
If you have to think about it, make sure it’s worth it.
Feb22
Providing great user experience with feedback→
Most of these indicators are actually on the screen for just seconds, but that is sufficient time to quiet a user’s doubts and ensure they know things are working. It feels great to click through the app and always feel like you know what’s happening, that things are working.
Really getting into designing experiences for mobile and in true 37 Signals fashion this post is full of live examples with tons of quality insight. I’ve learned that speed and responsiveness are 2 very different components of design with responsiveness being the one you have considerably more control of. This post definitely illustrates that philosophy.
Feb20
To be truly great, we have to understand the motivation of our clients, maintain constant two-way communication with shockingly uncreative people, get a firm handle on copywriting and how that craft exists symbiotically with the visual element, and foresee how the finished whole will be greater than the sum of the bits and pieces we spent hours obsessing over. All of these factors cascade into the final product.
Kevin Potts
(Source: inspireux.com)
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