Today I revisited the Universal Dimensions described in the Kevin Lynch book Good City Form for evaluating Social & Physical spaces. If you haven’t heard of this book, I totally …
Cooper diagrams from About Face 4
Cooper has shared a number of diagrams from the work in About Face 4. The slides and diagrams are shared via a Creative Commons 4.0 BY-ND license. The first edition …
How comics & screens work together
Opertoon and Creative Applications Network have written about a recently launched website, TimeFraming: The Art of Comics on Screen – dedicated to exploring what comics can teach about communicating creatively …
UXMatters on the Principles of Great UX Design
UX Matters have written a summary on some of the Principles of Great UX Design. The article is a summary of a panel discussion written by Janet M. Six, covering Design Principles …
Google’s Material design
Wired has written another post on Google’s Material Design, this time looking at the considerations within Interaction Design. Material design is a few things. It’s a makeover—a “sweeping, well-reasoned, and …
Mike Bostock on Scroll-based Interactions
Mike Bostock has written about 5 rules for effective scrolling within touch-based gestural, keyboard & other interactive storytelling and visualisations. Citing a few examples including the Apple Mac Pro site …
Experience design is shaping our future
Mary Treseler from O’Reilly has written a timely article on the state of experience design in our Industry. The article is the first of a series which will cover the future …
A designer Guide to DPI
Sebastien Gabriel has written a useful guide on DPI including considerations for monitor Hertz, pixel density and 4K. The guide also references the incredibly useful PaintCode iPhone6 screen demystified articles. …
Google’s new design language for Android
Wired reports on Google’s new design language for Android
Design principles behind the 2014 BBC iPlayer redesign
Kutlu Canlioglu, Creative Director for TV & iPlayer at the BBC has written an overview on the changes and principles behind the iPlayer redesign. I published a post on the …
6 Characteristics within the Internet of Things (IOT)
Carlos Elena-Lenz from Frog has published an interesting blog post in Design Mind on 6 characteristics within the Internet of Things (IOT). Intelligence Connectivity Sensing Expressing Energy Safety By framing …
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
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 # …
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 …