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Plans & Sign Up. Don Norman: 3 ways good design makes you happy. Udacity. How to Create a Customer Journey Map -UX Mastery. A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide. As a veteran designer, developer and project manager for more websites than I can count, I’ve identified a common problem with many Web projects: failure to plan.

A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide

The same issues come up repeatedly in my work, so I’ve written this guide in order to help clients, other designers, businesses and organizations plan and realize successful websites. This guide is written in relatively non-technical language and provides a broad overview of the process of developing a website, from the initial needs assessment through the launch, maintenance and follow-up. The Process of Designing and Building a Website in 2014.

The Process of Designing and Building a Website For some individuals, working in the web industry is maddening -- for others, wonderful -- because of its ever-changing nature.

The Process of Designing and Building a Website in 2014

Even for the most advanced and prolific designers and developers, keeping up with the web's advancements can be daunting. What has stayed true through each trend and movement, despite the many transformations and evolutions it has gone through, is the web's nature of being open and accessible. To this day, creating and sharing information is at the core of what the web is.

How to Create a Customer Journey Map -UX Mastery. Best Blogs on UX Design - Springboard Blog. So you want to learn UX design.

Best Blogs on UX Design - Springboard Blog

You’re in luck. The internet is replete with blogs by designers and industry experts that can help you with whatever you need: whether it’s staying up-to-date on trends, developing research methods, or getting inspired. We rounded up nine of the best blogs you should follow if you’re an aspiring UX designer — check them out below. Designing User Interfaces for Older Adults: Myth Busters. Note—For examples of other guidelines, see Chisnell and Redish’s “AARP Audience-Centered Heuristics: Older Adults,”PDF Kurniawan and Zaphiris’s “Research-Derived Web Design Guidelines for Older People, and NIH’s “Making Your Website Senior Friendly.”

Designing User Interfaces for Older Adults: Myth Busters

It could be, as argued by Richards in “Web Accessibility as a Side Effect,” that Web sites are more accessible in general, as a result of developments in “Web technology and associated shifts in the way Web pages are designed and coded.” But one doesn’t have to evaluate very many Web sites to realize that design that exhibits good general usability is more the exception than the rule. And, all other factors being equal—for example, computer expertise and education—older people suffer the effects of poor usability to a greater degree than younger people do. CSS Syntax and Selectors. Aaron Draplin. 5 Essential Projects for Your Design Portfolio. A stellar portfolio is pretty much a necessity if you want to land any kind of design work, whether as a full-time employee or a freelancer.

5 Essential Projects for Your Design Portfolio

All the credentials in the world can’t prove you’re a good designer. The only thing that proves that is actual design work. (Mind-blowing idea, I know.) University events:Glasgow Science Festival:Events and projects. Institute for Future Cities. Tackling urban crime through innovative research and analysis Predicting street crime and optimising crime reduction measures are at the heart of research being conducted by the Institute for Future Cities.

Institute for Future Cities

Unauthorized. Vintage Stencil Style in Photoshop. Last week we posted a tutorial showing how to create simple artwork in Illustrator and then in Photoshop we added a few effects to make it look old and with that vintage/hipster feel.

Vintage Stencil Style in Photoshop

Some people asked about some of the steps in Photoshop so I decided to make a simple walkthrough about how to use Photoshop to create this kind of effect. It's a simple technique but it can be very handy for this kind of artwork. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple vintage look stencil in Photoshop. The whole process will take around one hour and you won't need anything special besides time and a few dirty brushes. Step 1 Create the artwork you want to apply the effect. Step 2 In Photoshop now, place the stencil. Step 3 Group the black layer with the white stencil and convert it to a smart object. Step 4 Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Levels.

UX Planet. Designers.how. MA Materials Anthropology Design. About the programme Our Core Vision: The material world is a world of social potential.

MA Materials Anthropology Design

Social scientists should be better equipped to engage with materials and objects through ethnographic, critical, analytical, presentational and collaborative skills. Designers, artists, engineers, architects and curators should be better equipped to work with people using similar skills. Anthropology studies human social and cultural diversity. On the MA M.A.D., you study anthropology and material culture, with various options in archaeology and engineering. You should consider our MA if: You have a cultural interest in a particular Material, in Design, or in Crafts.

The MA is based in the anthropology department, but has strong links in its options and programme with the Institute of Archaeology and the Institute of Making within the Engineering Department. The M.A.D. Core Courses After doing the first term of the core course, you will: Options List The M.A.D. Dissertations. Designresearchcomplete by Paulo Sérgio Vieira Santana - issuu. December 2010 Migrations, pratiques alimentaires et rapports sociaux.

Chantal Crenn, Jean-Pierre Hassoun and F.Xavier Medina Diana Mata Codesal Three foodscapes of Ecuadorian migration in New York, London and Santander Manger à l’étranger, des souvenirs familiaux.

December 2010 Migrations, pratiques alimentaires et rapports sociaux

Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal - Laura M. Ahearn. Introduction to Anthropology.