Caio Braga, Fabricio Teixeira & Luciano Infanti have written an excellent article that explores design in new fictions – the invisible social contracts that we all accept and subscribe to …
Started reading Hippo & The Best Interface is No Interface
If there are 2 books that come recommended in a time when we are all talking about Machine Learning, AI and Conversational Bots, it is these two, which I’ve just …
It’s Not the Interface that Makes the Experience
Dave Malouf adds to the recent discussion on Experience Design with a Medium post titled – It’s not the interface that makes the experience. There has been a lot of …
IOS8 GUI Sketch 3 Templates
The very useful Teehan+Lax IOS8 Sketch 3 Templates have been updated http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/iphone-sketch-app 2013 Tools for the iPad (including PSD) http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/ipad
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 …
37 Signals paper on Using Patterns in web design
Ryan Singer has written an interesting article, that is an introduction to using patterns in web design. The paper covers ways to group, prioritize, and organize similar items during mockups …
VoiceOver for OS X adds speech to the interface
Apple have released VoiceOver for Mac OS X. The next version of OS X will include the new accessible spoken interface that provides a new way, through speech, audible cues, …
Carl Franklin comments on User Interface Layers
Carl Franklin comments on using user interface layers. The post contains some great comments on the use of layers in interface design and interesting discussion on alternative and possible uses.
Card sorting tool by IBM – EZSort (beta)
IBM have a Beta Card-Sorting tool that helps interface designers organize information based on users’ expectations. The software comes with 2 packages – USort and EZCalc, and can be used …
The application of semiotics to Icons
Barr, P., et al. published/presented a great paper at the Fourth Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2003) in Adelaide earlier this year, titled Icons R Icons. The paper looks at the …
Maya’s Methods when evaluating Interfaces
Whilst reading this blog post by Peter Merholz, which commented on the ACM Interactions article by Microsoft’s Dennis Wixon, Evaluating usability methods: Why the current literature fails the practitioner (which …
Unix plugin which suggests from what you’re currently reading or writing
Remem (The Remembrance Agent) is a plug-in developed and maintained by Bradley Rhodes, for Emacs (a Unix-based text editor), which suggests information relevant to what you’re currently reading or writing. …
What is Fitts law? and its relation to HCI
Here is a PDF document based on the research by Shumin Zhai, an IBM Research Staff Member, which extends the law developed by Fitts in 1954. Fitts Law is a …
ZDNet reports on the Star Trek ‘holodeck’
ZD Net writes that Star Trek’s ‘holodeck’ can be a reality sooner than we think.