design for good
The brain has 23 billion neurons. That’s a lot of capacity for mental processing. So what’s going on in there? Understanding how people think is crucial if you’re going to design for them. Just as there are visual illusions, there are also thinking illusions. This chapter describes some of the interesting things the brain […]
SHORT-TERM MEMORY IS LIMITED Don’t ask people to remember information from one place to another, such as reading letters or numbers on one page and then entering them on another page; if you do, they’ll probably forget the information and get frustrated. If you ask people to remember things in working memory, don’t ask […]
We’re designing for a browsers and operating systems that have a well-established visual language and pretty solid interaction design patterns. Also, the increasingly popular Flat Design aesthetic is making everything look the same. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel when designing a door handle; two or three types of handles may be enough to […]
With adult literacy rates now over 80 percent worldwide, reading is a primary form of communication for most people. But how do we read? And what should designers know about reading? IT’S A MYTH THAT CAPITAL LETTERS ARE INHERENTLY HARD TO READ People perceive all capitals as shouting, and they’re unused to reading them, so […]
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 […]
Here is how to specify JavaScript only for Internet Explorer: JavaScript: if ($.browser.msie) { // Internet Explorer is a sadist. }
“As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.” – Jef Raskin For the last few days I’ve been researching on “front-end engineering”. As Mark Meeker says, it has other names like “front end development” or “UI engineering” or “web development” or “web production”. Whatever we call it, it is out there […]
Date: 01.06.2010 Tools: Illustrator, Photoshop, Artise Golden Section Large Version @ Flickr
Date: 01.05.2010 Tools: Illustrator, Photoshop, Artise Golden Section Large Version @ Flickr
REDUCE The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. ORGANIZE Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. TIME Savings in time feel like simplicity. LEARN Knowledge makes everything simpler. DIFFERENCES Simplicity and complexity need each other. CONTEXT What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral. EMOTION More emotions are […]