A very handy article by CoDrops on Responsive Typography. One of the most important aspects of responsive web design is typography. When it comes to responsive type on the web, …
Different kinds of Design Principles
Uday Gajendar has written about the different kinds of Design Principles. http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=901 He mentions at least 4 kinds of principles: Cultural Systemic Tactical Legendary
Ayrton Senna’s 1989 F1 lap data visualized by Honda
With over 100 sensors and 6.5 billion data points delivered in real-time, today the F1 is as much as about predicting the future as it is about shaving milliseconds on the circuit. …
Arguments for & against Skeuomorphism in Design
With the redesign of iOS7, the debate over Affordances and Skeumorphism gets debated once again. It’s like a pendulum swinging from obvious visual affordances to engaging kinetic ones. The parallax …
Documentary of Sound Designer Ben Burtt (1989)
This 10 minute documentary from 1989 covers the efforts into sound design in the 1990’s, including the recording of sounds for films and television. Ben Burtt is an American sound …
Brent Yorgey’s Factorization Diagrams
Brent Yorgey has written a post on Visualisations using factors (Factorization Diagrams). Recently Jason Davies has written on the Diagrams using D3 and a demo by Vjeux. In 2012 Brent …
Automagic – Design Principles for Automatic Systems
Joakim Formo has written about User Experience of Automation in the Ericsson User Experience Lab Blog. PRINCIPLE # 1: Don’t make the system more complex than it is useful PRINCIPLE # …
Teehan+Lax Pixel Density Converter
Teehan+Lax have created a pixel density online calculator that tells you how to scale graphics between 4 density groups. It is useful when creating applications across different platforms & devices. …
Government Digital Service (GDS) Design Principles
The UK Government Digital Service (GDS) has published some of their Design Principles and examples of how they are being used in government. Start with needs Do less Design with data …
Spacially Aware Interactions & Devices
Ishac Betran has shared a blog post and video of the idea for Spacially aware interactions on his blog. spatial |ˈspeɪʃ(ə)l| (also spacial) Adjective Relating to space: the spatial distribution …
Visualization definition
vɪʒjʊəlʌɪz, -zj-| (also visualise) verb [ with obj. ] form a mental image of; imagine: it is not easy to visualize the future. make (something) visible to the eye: the …
The 25th BCS Conference of Human Computer Interaction, HCI2011
The theme for the 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction – HCI2011 – is Health, Wealth & Happiness. We would like to celebrate how the design, development and use …
Edward Tufte’s Slopegraphs
Charlie Park has written an insightful article on Edward Tufte’s Slopegraphs
Protovis is replaced by D3
Protovis, the free and open-source visualisation JavaScript library has been replaced by D3 a new visualisation library with improved support for animations and interactions. http://mbostock.github.io/protovis The final release of Protovis …
Content Aware Fill & Adobe Photoshop CS5
Some of the new interesting features for Adobe Photoshop CS5 includes showing off effects even developers did not intend. One such feature is Content Aware Fill as written about on …