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Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report. A few weeks into the making of Her, Spike Jonze’s new flick about romance in the age of artificial intelligence, the director had something of a breakthrough.

Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report

After poring over the work of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists trying to figure out how, exactly, his artificially intelligent female lead should operate, Jonze arrived at a critical insight: Her, he realized, isn’t a movie about technology. It’s a movie about people. With that, the film took shape. Sure, it takes place in the future, but what it’s really concerned with are human relationships, as fragile and complicated as they’ve been from the start. Of course on another level Her is very much a movie about technology.

When AI is cheap, what does all the other technology look like? For production designer KK Barrett, the man responsible for styling the world in which the story takes place, Her represented another sort of design challenge. Click to Open Overlay Gallery Technology Shouldn’t Feel Like Technology Go Back to Top. From Google Ventures: 5 Rules For Writing Great Interface Copy. For many technology companies, design is mysterious.

From Google Ventures: 5 Rules For Writing Great Interface Copy

So when I work with startups, I try to demystify design by talking about processes and skills. The idea is: Design is not a magical creative thing that designers are blessed to do. It's rational and objective, and the components are pretty easy to understand. People are often surprised when I tell them writing is a design skill. I used to work with an excellent visual designer who hated being called a visual designer. At Google Ventures, my partners and I get to try different approaches to design all the time—we work with different startups every week. We think this is pretty amazing—and no one is more amazed than me! (What’s interface copy? 1. Some say short is best. My principle: Clarity is king.

. • Be specific. . • Watch for jargon and abbreviations. . • Front-load your labels (i.e., put the important words up front) . • Don’t be lazy. These are small things, for sure. Creative UI Design Examples for Great UX. UX (User Experience) is all those elements and factors related to the user's interaction with a particular environment or device which generate a positive or negative perception of the product, brand or device.

Creative UI Design Examples for Great UX

UX is subjective and focused on use. The standard definition of UX is "a person's perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system or service". These factors are related to design and usability, but also to the emotions and feelings generated in the user, accessibility, brand trust... In the case of the web, the user's experience with the device is not a matter of concern to web designers: big hardware companies do the job of building our machines and computers. However, web designers have much to say about the user experience that the interfaces and websites that we develop generate: it is a key element of our work! GUI to present information: The interface controls should be intuitive and easy to use. UI Elements and Techniques:

Kubilay Sapayer - Graphic Designer. Ui Parade – User interface design inspiration & design tools.