Damn You Art School. Google Visual Assets Guidelines - Part 1 on Behance. Google’s brand is shaped in many ways; one of which is through maintaining the visual coherence of our visual assets. In January 2012, expanding on the new iconography style started by Creative Lab, we began creating this solid, yet flexible, set of guidelines that have been helping Google’s designers and vendors to produce high quality work that helps strengthen Google’s identity. What you see here is a visual summary of the guidelines, divided into two Behance projects: Google design style: Executive Creative Director: Chris Wiggins Graphic Designers: Jesse Kaczmarek, Nicholas Jitkoff, Jonathan Lee, Andy Gugel, Alex Griendling, Christopher Bettig, Jefferson Cheng, Roger Oddone, Yan Yan, Zachary Gibson Guideline design: Art Director / Team Manager: Christopher BettigSenior Graphic Designer / Project lead: Roger OddoneDesigners: Alex Griendling, Christopher Bettig, Jefferson Cheng, Roger Oddone, Yan Yan, Zachary GibsonContributors: Web Studio, Brand Team, Creative Lab.
Documentation. Ux.artu.tv » 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design. The PDF version of the series is now available! Get the PDF compilation of this blog series here > 1 Metro Design Principles and Metro Design Language 2 The Design Process of a Windows Phone app 3 Ideation & Concept 4 Hub & Spoke Navigation Model 5 Choosing between Panorama, Pivot and Pages 6 Information Architecture in a Windows Phone App 7 Designing Panoramas 8 Layout and Composition in Windows Phone - Part I 9 Layout and Composition in Windows Phone - Part II 10 Layout and Composition in Windows Phone - Part III 11 Windows Phone Design Grid 12 Use of Images and Photography 13 Touch Gestures 14 Using the Windows Phone App Bar 15 Designing Windows Phone Icons 16 Typography 17 Motion Catalog in Windows Phone 18 Creating backgrounds for Panoramas 19 Tips for Designing Tiles 20 Helvetica 21 Touch Targets 22 Orientation - portrait, landscape left, landscape right 23 Improving Perceived Performance 24 Pushing Metro Further with Design Inspiration Hello!
How’s that?! Happy New Year 2012! What is a Smart Home? Video Example of Smart Home Technology in Action... Connecting. How to Design Smart Houses. Banny Banerjee - Design Thinking: An approach to Strategic Transformations. A selection of graphic projects. I did not have updated graphic-exchange for 1 week. During this week I went for the farest place I never been, in Brisbane, Australia. I spend 46 hours in the air. I spend almost 4 days in airports or planes. I was part of the Brisbane design week organized by Icograda and thanks them again for that. I have did a talk during 45 minutes and really enjoyed it (as people seems to have).
I eat one of the best beef of my life. 20 Excellent Wireframing Tools for Mobile. Planning and wireframing your mobile website or application is an essential part of a successful design process. It can help save you money (on design and development costs), expand initial ideas, build structure and functionality and effectively gather invaluable early feedback. We have gathered 20 of the best tools for wireframing mobile websites and apps, each of which offers a unique set of features. Furthermore, there are plenty of other wireframing and diagramming apps available, which may also be of interest. Please note, though, not all the tools listed below offer mobile-specific functionality; several are rather basic. However, each is worth exploring to see if it fits your requirements: Have we left out your favorite wireframing tool? Image via istockphoto, thegoodphoto. Material Honesty on the Web. Material honesty—the idea that a substance should be itself, rather than mimic something else—has guided everyone from Ruskin, an art critic, to Charles and Ray Eames, designers of the iconic plywood chair (LCW).
By stripping away any coverings and celebrating both its material and its manufacturing process, the chair lays bare exactly what it is: molded plywood. In so doing, it is modern, functional, and timeless—so timeless, in fact, that it’s been continually produced for eighty years. Today there’s a materials debate between flat and skeuomorphic design. While design debates are healthy, too much finger-pointing is prolonging the problem—web folks on all sides are still figuring out their sensibilities to and vocabulary for web materials.
It starts by defining the core web materials and understanding when they’re honest, and when they’re not. Web materials#section1 Web materials fit nicely into three categories. Foundation: HTTP, URLs, and HTMLStyle: CSSDecoration: Raster graphics. Information Is Beautiful. No to NoUI – Timo Arnall. ‘The best design is invisible‘ is the interaction design phrase of the moment. The images above are from my ever-expanding collection of quotes about how design and technology will ‘disappear‘, become ‘invisible‘ or how the ‘best interface is no interface‘. The Verge has recently given both Oliver Reichenstein and Golden Krishna a platform to talk about this. This has spawned manifestos, films, talks, books, #NoUI hashtags and some debates about what it might mean.
I’ll call this cluster of things ‘invisible design’. I agree with some of the reasons driving this movement; that design’s current infatuation with touchscreens is really problematic. But I also take issue with much of the thinking for a few reasons that I’ll outline below. 1. We already have plenty of thinking that celebrates the invisibility and seamlessness of technology.
Computing systems are suffused through and through with the constraints of their materiality. – Jean-François Blanchette 2. 3. 4. Information design using card sorting. Written by James Robertson, published February 19th, 2001 Categorised under: articles, usability & information architecture At the beginning of any information design exercise, it is normal to be confronted by a very long list of potential subjects to include. The challenge is to organise this information in a way that is useful and meaningful for the users of the system. While careful investigation and analysis of the information may reveal some clues, it can be virtually impossible to determine which topics should be grouped together. The difficulty in organising the content stems from a lack of knowledge about how real users make use of this information. Without this, any exercise in information design is a purely theoretical one. A card sorting session can go a long way towards resolving this problem.
What is card sorting? In essence, card sorting works as follows: Write down each topic on a filing (index) card. Why use this method? There are a number of benefits to using card sorting: Trends in interactive design 2013. Artefact. How to Pitch Your Startup in 3 Minutes. Erica Swallow is leading team Deliverish on StartupBus, a 72-hour hackathon on a bus to SXSW. Read up on her experiences as a buspreneur on the StartupBus blog and follow her on Twitter. What if you had just three days to conceive, build and launch a startup? That's exactly what 152 entrepreneurs did on the StartupBus, a the 72-hour hackathon that takes place on seven buses as they make their way across North America to Austin for SXSW. The teams had just a few minutes to pitch their ideas to the judges. So, who stood out and why? Go Straight to the Demo Pitches should be short and informative — the StartupBus pitches were capped at three minutes, including live product demos.
"I hate slides. "I hate slides. The only exception here is if you can be as compelling as, say, Steve Jobs, who could tell a captivating story with just one slide that prominently features a chart of a few words. UsupplyMe hit the nail on the head with storytelling. Be Able to Answer These Questions Think Big. Can you justify design decisions? | Lealea Design. // Filed in Featured / Business / Design / Web It’s interesting that while many of us rant about how some of our clients don’t understand the choices we make in a project, it’s startling to see that a lot of “designers” out there don’t understand their own choices, either. It’s making design decisions without justifying why something is placed somewhere, or choosing things almost “instinctively” or arbitrarily.
Yes, great designers definitely have a sharper eye than most, but a lot of their choices are less “instinctive” than most people realise — there is research involved, education in design history, various projects under their belt, etc — that helps designers make better decisions that seem “automatic.” You don’t necessarily need to have a formal design education background to grasp and apply universal design concepts that fiddle with line, space, proximity, colour, type, and images; that, on top of figuring out context and relevancy to the audience and the times. Create a Chalkboard Type Treatment In Illustrator. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a chalkboard vector with some gradients, a bristle brush, and some freebies from Vector Mill!
The tutorial is relatively simple and can be applied to many other Illustrator projects. Moreover, you can use the Vector Mill freebies in other projects! Final Image Below is the final chalkboard vector we will be shooting for. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS5Difficulty: Beginner / IntermediateTopics Covered: Grain Effect, Bristle Brush, BrushesEstimated Completion Time: 15-20 minutesRequired Files: Vector-Mill-Sample.ai (compatibility CS4-CS5) Step 1 Create a new document and create a rectangle with the Rectangle tool (M).
Step 2 Fill the new rectangle with a radial gradient, change the first color stop in the gradient to a green color, and the second color stop to a darker green color. Step 3 With the rectangle still selected, open the pop-up menu of the Appearance panel, and choose Add New Fill. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10. Designers' List - Great resources and websites for designers. Photoshop * Filter basics. You can use filters to clean up or retouch your photos, apply special art effects that give your image the appearance of a sketch or impressionistic painting, or create unique transformations using distortions and lighting effects. The filters provided by Adobe appear in the Filter menu. Some filters provided by third-party developers are available as plug-ins. Once installed, these plug-in filters appear at the bottom of the Filter menu.
Smart Filters, applied to Smart Objects, let you use filters non-destructively. Smart Filters are stored as layer effects in the Layers panel and can be readjusted at any time, working from the original image data contained in the Smart Object. For more information on Smart Filter Effects and nondestructive editing, see Nondestructive editing.
To use a filter, choose the appropriate submenu command from the Filter menu. 10 Photoshop Filters You Should Definitely Know. If you’ve worked with Photoshop for any significant amount of time, you will know that the application comes packed with a broad range of different filters, which can be used to create some really awesome effects. You may also find that the sheer number of filters is somewhat overwhelming! In this article, we’re going to look at 10 Photoshop filters that I think every user should know. We’ll talk about what they do, and more importantly, why you should get to know them all. 1. Filter » Blur » Gaussian Blur… I couldn’t even begin to count the number of times that I use this one.
For example, one lighting technique that I use quite frequently involves creating a layer with a coloured light, which I give an Overlay blending mode. Add a large circle of blue I can then apply a Gaussian blur of 100px to really soften the “light” up. The colour is difused by the gaussian blur Then I just apply the Overlay blending mode, to get an effect like this one. Layer duplicated and set to Overlay 2. 3. 4. 5. UX design process. Designspiration — Design Inspiration. How to: Animate in a Style. This example shows how to animate properties within a style. When animating within a style, only the framework element for which the style is defined can be targeted directly. To target a freezable object, you must "dot down" from a property of the styled element. About Don Norman - jnd.org.
About Don Norman I live several lives: Company advisor and board member; Keynote speaker;Author of books and columns. My formal education is in Electrical Engineering and Psychology. I've served as a faculty member at Harvard, University of California, San Diego, Northwestern, and KAIST (South Korea). I've retired twice, once from the University of California, San Diego (where I was founder and chair of the department of Cognitive Science) and once from Northwestern University, where i was a professor of Computer Science and Design, co-directing the MMM dual degree program between the School of Engineering and the Kellogg School of Management, a program that gave students both an MBA and engineering degree, with the focus on design and operation.
I am co-founder and principal of the User Experience/Usability consulting firm, the Nielsen Norman group, which is the home for my consulting and keynote talks. About Nielsen Norman Group We are user advocates. About this site. TV Design Patterns - Google TV. This is a guide to developing user interfaces for Android applications running on Google TV. Although there are few internal differences between an Android application for a phone and one for Google TV, there are differences in the user interface.
The viewing environment of a television is commonly referred to as the ten foot (10ft) environment and the television screen as the 10ft UI. When you create apps for the 10ft environment, remember these basic concepts: The 10ft environment is traditionally for consuming content. The 10ft environment is a fun environment, not a work environment. The 10ft environment is usually a social environment, not a single-user environment. The viewing experience for a 10ft UI is a mix of computer and TV. Read about each of these concepts (and more) in the following sections. The 10ft Environment The most fundamental idea is that the television has traditionally been for consuming content.
TV Displays Here are some guidelines for your UI design: Table 1. Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps. Internet of Things Apps - ThingSpeak. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.