Form Field Usability: Matching User Expectations
I see the mistake again and again – web designers that either don’t adjust the width of their form fields at all or adjust it based on what looks best in the layout of the page. To achieve good…
Brabus, one of the most respected tuning companies in the world, has now unveiled its latest creation, the Brabus iBusiness. Based on the Mercedes-Benz S600, the Brabus iBusiness four-seater luxury sedan packs in a range of multimedia features, including two iPads in the rear seats with Bluetooth keyboards and mouse, an ultra-small Mac minicomputer under the rear shelf and a 64GB Apple iPod Touch.
Interesting imagery by artist Li Wei. More here.
Do not solve the problem that’s asked of you. It’s almost always the wrong problem. Almost always when somebody comes to you with a problem, they’re really telling you the symptoms and the first and the most difficult part of design is to figure out what is really needed to get to the root of the issue and solve the correct problem.
11 Principles of Interaction Design explained
Nice read with some great links to other articles/work on the subject
Visual Balance: Dealing with Variable Headline Lengths
How do you maintain the visual balance in your design when the length of your headlines vary dramatically? A long headline will naturally demand more attention than a short one because it takes up…
Formatting Links for Usability
Links are how people navigate your site.
Which is why it’s crucial that you follow 3 basic link usability guidelines: 1) underlining links, 2) coloring links, and 3) keeping link styling…
Senior Degree Project for the Kansas City Art Institute by Gregory Kaufman. DJ touch screen interface and gesture interaction concepts.
Hardware is magic, software is two times magic.
Most users have no imagination. They want what they know. When they say they want the future, what they are really saying is that they want a moderately updated version of the past.
- MG Siegler
Custom 1930 Art Deco Henderson motorcycle.
Alex Bogusky sits down for a conversation with designer Bill Bogusky (his father). The video is very interesting and discusses crowdsourcing, now outdated processes, logo design, and the relationship between a son and his dad.
It’s a world clock you guys!
EDIT: Holy Radar Batman! More on the world clock HERE at Boing Boing, yay!!! (Also, you can just click on the picture, it’ll take you to the article too.)
Usability Research Applied to Immersive Interfaces
I’m a bit late on this, but there was awesome article in Boxes and Arrows this week titled Researching Video Games the UX Way. It’s a detailed write up of how Bolt|Peters performed usability testing on Spore.
The basic take-away is that the team had to rely on a much more open-ended…
Content is the real ‘meat’ in our websites
This is what our websites are like if we have the visual hierarchy just right, with clear navigation, enticing images, seamless front-end user experience, and some fast loading pages with great response, all the while ignoring content. - Felicity Evans, from her article Putting Contents Back on Top
