Takeaways: HOW PEOPLE SEE

Vision trumps all the senses. Half of the brain’s resources are dedicated to seeing and interpreting what we see. What our eyes physically perceive is only one part of the story. The images coming in to our brains are changed and interpreted. It’s really our brains that are “seeing.” WHAT YOU SEE ISN’T WHAT YOUR […]

A Designer’s Research Manual: Succeed in Design by Knowing Your Clients and What They Really Need

by Jennifer Visocky O’Grady, Kenneth Visocky O’Grady Doing research can make all the difference between a great design and a good design. Most experienced designers would quantify this “legwork” with the term research. By engaging in competitive intelligence, customer profiling, color and trend forecasting, etc., designers are able to bring something to the table that […]

The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design

Written by IDEO.org The book is from IDEO.org and it’s about Human-Centered Design and it’s a field guide. I think that’s enough for a designer to put his read list top of everything. The topics are very to the point, precise, easy to follow and just do it type. Every User Experience Designer who works […]

User Interface Design Principles

  Clarity is job #1 Clarity is the first and most important job of any interface. Clarity inspires confidence and leads to further use. One hundred clear screens is preferable to a single cluttered one.   Interfaces exist to enable interaction Interfaces exist to enable interaction between humans and our world. The best interfaces can […]

UI/UX Related Pages

My Read UX is not UI What’s the difference between UI and UX? The Difference Between UI and UX Visualizing the differences between UX and UI UI vs UX: what’s the difference? How To Recruit A UX Designer The Myth Of The Sophisticated User What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources   More […]

Notes from: “How to become A Web Design Expert” article

Just read an article at smashingmagazine.com. The subject is:  ”How to become A Web Design Expert” What I’ve learned from this article is: All the experts are not very well known Being an expert is more then about getting people to listen Being perceived as an expert can be helpful when working with clients, and […]

Reading: April 2010

Thoughts on Flash Seven JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career HTML5: Worth the Hype? Front End Web Designers, Developers and Engineers What makes a good front end engineer? Interviewing the front-end engineer input placeholders Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch The Anatomy of Web Design Innovate: Sketch out your […]