October 2012
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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. That’s...”
– Steve Jobs 2003
August 2012
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July 2012
3 posts
Pinterest Data Analysis: An Inside Look →
1 tag
interpunct →
The 15 Things Charles and Ray Eames Teach Us →
athinah:
01. Keep good company 02. Notice the ordinary 03. Preserve the ephemeral 04. Design not for the elite but for the masses 05. Explain it to a child 06. Get lost in the content 07. Get to the heart of the matter 08. Never tolerate “O.K. anything.” 09. Remember your responsibility as a storyteller 10. Zoom out 11. Switch 12. Prototype it 13. Pun 14. Make design your life… and life, your...
October 2011
1 post
“Action verbs are better for buttons”
August 2011
1 post
Design Principles →
(via Instapaper)
July 2011
1 post
Chalkboard typography →
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
2 posts
“To get people to change their behavior, we need to create stuff they want to...”
Myth #31: UX design is a step in a project
uxmyths:
Many think that user experience design is confined to sketching the interfaces. However, UX design is a much broader process that - ideally - starts at the strategy level and affects the whole lifecycle of a project or a business.
UX design begins by learning about the business model, doing user research and understanding how a service can fit into the users’ lives in a...
February 2011
7 posts
52 Weeks of UX: 10 Principles of UX →
1. The Experience Belongs to the User: Designers do not create experiences, they create artifacts to experience. This makes all the difference. Since experience is subjective it cannot be designed in quite the same way that a physical product can. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t design…
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It...”
– Albert Einstein
Hidden Gems: Solve Any Problem →
myddelton:
The most useful thing I learned last month was “a technique to solve any problem”. Seriously.
It’s called the KJ Method and it came to me via Leisa Reichelt, but it dates to the late 1960s and a man named Jiro Kawakita. It’s also called an “affinity diagram”, but I used this term at work and…
January 2011
7 posts
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: The many sliders of Photoshop... →
Preferences > Memory Usage
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color Balance
Things to keep in mind:
These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find…
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“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is...”
– Albert Einstein
November 2010
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September 2010
3 posts
“You can take a HORSE to the water, but you can’t make him drink”
– 1175 Old English Homilies
“Web Dogma
Here are 10 rules that will enhance the user experience of any...”
– Eric Reiss
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent...”
– Charles Darwin
July 2010
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“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to...”
– Derek Sivers
April 2010
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March 2010
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November 2009
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“Law 1: Reduce
The Simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful...”
– The Laws of Simplicity
October 2009
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus
September 2009
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“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
– Orson Welles
June 2009
2 posts
“Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.”
– john maeda on Twitter
May 2009
1 post
November 2008
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