Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App
What Do You Really Need in a WordPress Starter Theme?
I think itβs safe to say that Iβm somewhat obsessed with themes that help you get your WordPress projects started quickly. Most likely because Iβve been there, staring at an emptyβ¦
Case Study: Red Hat No Knickers
The Messy Art Of UX Sketching
UX Teams: Stop it with the wireframes. Please.
Complexity and User Experience
Jon Bolt explores how changing the discussion from "functionality" to "complexity" helps product owners and designers better evaluate the real impact new features have on a product.
Want To Create A Great Product? First, Forget "User Friendliness"
User-friendliness is the inevitable result of a smart design approach, not the starting point. Here are three criteria to help you develop a useful design brief that will ultimately yield a great product.
How to Design a Mobile Responsive Website
When, why, and how should you go about designing a responsive website? Equator web designer and UX Booth contributor Elaine Simpson breaks down the basics of responsive web design.
Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools
This is an experiment in a slightly different format for Smashing Magazine β using a storytelling approach to convey the same lessons learned that a traditional article would have provided.
Beyond Task Completion: Flow in Design
In flow, the experience is rich and deep, and helps users be productive and highly creative.
Beyond Task Completion: Flow in Design
In flow, the experience is rich and deep, and helps users be productive and highly creative.
Effective Use of Color and Graphics in Applications for Children, Part I: Toddlers and Preschoolers
βThe effective use of color and graphics in childrenβs media is one of the most important aspects of design to ensure that you deliver optimal content and a memorable user experience to young users.β
The T-Model and Strategies for Hiring IA Practitioners: Part 1
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
Developers, UX Is Your Business Too!
Developers can have profound impacts on the UX of the products theyβre working on.
Web Forms How-To Part 1: Simplicity
Keep signup forms simple and fast, and delegate as much as possible.
Psychological Usability Heuristics
Translating Susan Weinschenk's UX psychology facts into usability heuristics.
Better UX Design Needed for Enterprise Tablet Adoption
Apps that are simple, intuitive, and have few features are well suited for enterprise tablet use.
Content Prototyping In Responsive Web Design
Michelangelo once said, "The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself." Translate this to the world of Web design and you might say, "No matter how great a designer you are, youβre only as good as your content." While the reality of client work sometimes makes it challenging to gather and produce content prior to starting the design, this is now widely accepted as being necessary.
Create a Swish CSS3 Folded Ribbon in Five Minutes
Take one line of markup, a couple of CSS3 rules (no images), and you can have yourself a swish folded ribbon effect in five minutes. Let's see how.. Step 1: Markup We'll begin with an empty...
Golden Grid System
A folding grid for responsive design.
Responsive HTML images
β¦ adapts your existing HTML images for mobile devices. No mark-up changes needed. Just drop it in and forget about it.
Small Fortune
twothirty is a one-person website design & wordpress studio run by paul jarvis.
Youβve landed here in search of Paul Jarvis. He used to have a personal brand and website, but now he doesnβt.
Designed QR codes: the next level
Say what you will about QR (Quick Response) codes: they are just a fad, they will be forgotten once augmented reality takes hold or theyβre just an extra step in inputting a URL but they are here and people are enjoying using them, so make the most of them! QR codes, if you havenβt heard [β¦]
Form Goodness Kit
Free Form Goodness Kit psd download | Get more user interface, vectors and free psd featured in +60,804 free mockup psd, flyer psd and psd templates.
Solid UI Kit
Design Kindle offers free design resouces, including graphics, vectors, icons, patterns, textures and fully coded website templates. All downloads are free to use in both commercial and personal projects.
Transparent Glass UI: Free PSD for User Interface Design
This free user interface pack, brought to you by PixelsDaily, includes a variety of popular elements used in web application and website design.
The distracted designer
@font-face Solutions & Suggestions
Β«So what are the options for implementing web fonts? I'm going to review the three main methods of incorporating @font-face and explain the pros and cons of each method. [β¦]Β»
Visual Designers Are Just As Important As UX Designers
As I explained in my previous post, user experience design is a multidisciplinary activity which includes psychology, user research, information architecture, interaction design, graphic design and a host of other disciplines. Due to the complexity of the field a user experience team will typically be made up of individuals with a range of different specialisms.