AIGA Conference Recap Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Nov 7, 2016 I had the pleasure of attending the 2016 AIGA Conference in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. The theme of the conference this year was “The Shape of Design” and attendees were given the opportunity to hear...
The Magic is in the Details: The Beauty of Well Designed Micro-interactions and the Horror of Badly Designed Ones Diane Spengel / Fri, Jul 31, 2015 What are microinteractions? Microinteractions are the tiny details of a process that create the flow from beginning to completion. Dan Saffler defines Microinteractions as single moments within a use...
Amazon’s Wish List… Success! Jim Ross / Wed, Sep 10, 2014 Amazon just gave me something high on my wish list of improvements to their website. They recently added the ability to drag and drop the items in your wish list to reorder the list. I’d like to think...
User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 5 – From Wrong to Right Tobias Komischke / Fri, Aug 29, 2014 Here’s a cool data viz story. A large weekly magazine in Europe has recently published some statistics about Ebola cases in four African countries. It’s in German, but bear with me here. Per country...
What’s new in iOS 7? Neither features nor functions, but user experience! Miao Wang / Tue, Jul 30, 2013 On June 10, 2013 Apple announced its new mobile operating system – iOS 7 . It gained a lot of attention with its new visual style but was also controversial. Many people felt uncomfortable with the...
10 Design trends 2013 – Where did all the gradients go? Megan Isaak / Tue, Jul 23, 2013 Here is a list of 10 design trends I'm seeing this year: Large images beautiful imagery Something that has become more and more popular in the design world is putting your header copy of a big beautiful...