A Designer’s Guide to Grumpicon, or: How I Learned to Stop Using Font Icons and Love SVGs
Atomic Design
«[…] Atomic design provides a clear methodology for crafting design systems. Clients and team members are able to better appreciate the concept of design systems by actually seeing the steps laid out in front of them. […]»
Why good storytelling helps you design great products
One of the biggest flubs that product teams make is confusing designs that look great with designs that actually work well. It’s a simple mistake, but it can have grave consequences: If your product…
Best practices for creating app sites
If you have a smartphone, a tablet or a regular computer, chances are you have used an app at some point. We can’t get enough of them. They make life easier and quicker. Apps help you remember things, help you find and see things and just all around help you be an awesome(r) person. There’s […]
Loren Brichter - der Hohepriester des App-Designs
Latest from “Europe” in The Wall Street Journal
A More Flexible Workflow
Learn how we adapted our design process workflow to include more prototyping, better design conversation, and new types of deliverables.
Bring Back the Sitemap?
David Bushell – Freelance Web Design (UK)
Responsible Considerations For Responsive Web Design
Responsive Web design has been evolving rapidly ever since Ethan Marcotte coined the term two years ago. Since then, techniques have emerged, become best practices and formed part of our ever-changing methodology. A few obvious examples are the multitude of responsive image techniques, conditional loading, and responsive design and server-side components (RESS), among many other existing and emerging strands stemming from the core concept of responsive Web design.
The Making of Octicons
In our last post we announced Octicons, our new icon font. We put a lot of work into the font and gained a lot of knowledge in the process. With five different designers working to
Conditional Lightbox
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Effectively Planning UX Design Projects
Planning user experience (UX) projects is a balancing act of getting the right amount of user input within the constraints of your project. The trick is to work out the best use of your time. How can you get the most UX goodness for your client’s budget? This article explains how to choose the right mix of tools for the task at hand. The planning phase is all about understanding what you have been asked to do and working out the best combination of activities that will give you the outcome you need, within the time, budgetary and resource constraints of the project.
Think Again: Assumptions About Mobile To Reconsider | Smashing Mobile
Die Niehaus Wireframe-Technik
Methoden zur Konversionsoptimierung von Neuprojekten | Conversion Optimierung, Landingpage Optimierung
Mobile designers no longer see Apple on the forefront of iOS design
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product
Separate Mobile Website Vs. Responsive Website
A tel Tale Sign
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HRWD – Hybrid Responsive Web Design
Evangelizing Outside the Box: Web Standards and Large Companies
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About those vector icons · Pushing Pixels
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Interaction Design In The Cloud
Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. However, emailing your old static designs will feel old fashioned once you **see what these new tools can do**.
User Experience Is The Heart Of Any Company. How Do You Make It Top Priority?
If you start with “useful” as a first principle, then you automatically place customer need and experience first, writes Wolff Olins’s Mary Ellen Muckerman.
Skalierbare, Retina-Display ready Icon Fonts für responsive Webdesigns
Icon Fonts sind eine spannende Alternative zur Verwendung von Bildern, um skalierbare, 100% scharfe Icons in einem responsive Webdesign umzusetzen. Das Icon Font…
Principles for Successful Button Design
There are a thousand ways to design and create buttons today and you only need to spend a small amount of time looking through work on dribbble to get a sense of them. A great deal of these...
How To Recruit A UX Designer
A Responsive Ad Model | Trent Walton
Mark Boulton on the challenges we face when incorporating traditional ad spaces into responsive layouts:
The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design — Jon Tan 陳
The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design by Jon Tan 陳
Designing for responsiveness
New iOS Design Pattern: Slide-out Navigation
Raising the Bar for Mobile Standards
How standards documentation puts UX at the core of mobile application development.