Interaction Design In The Cloud. Quick summary ↬ 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. Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to represent various UI elements. Many of us cannot imagine life without them. There are, however, reasons to consider moving to the cloud to do interaction design. Optimized for collaboration,Editable anywhere,Interactive,Published in real time,Self-maintaing (the user doesn’t need to update software),Payable monthly, Emailing your old static designs will feel old fashioned once you see what these tools can do.
(Image credit: baldiri) More after jump! This article walks you through the current selection of cloud-based tools and provides some recommendations. Further Reading on SmashingMag: InVision. Responsive Web Design: Layouts and Media Queries. With the growing number of Smartphone produced in the last three years and the diversity of screen sizes it’s practically impossible to ignore users that browse on a mobile device.
Whether they use an Android phone, Windows Mobile phone, a BlackBerry device or an iPhone, whether they are on a tablet, on a Smartphone or on a big screen, each user deserves the best experience possible. As designers, it is our goal to provide those users a nice experience browsing the websites we created, whatever the device used to browse is. Today most of the clients want their website to be mobile compatible, so this is particularly challenging. Creating a version for each device is impossible, due to the number and diversity of those devices, but also simply because we don’t know what will be created tomorrow. That’s where the concept of “Responsive Webdesign” comes to the rescue. A responsive website is a website that will respond and adapt to the user’s behavior and screen size. Basic Fluid Layout. 30 Responsive Web Design and Development Tutorials. These days, everyone is using a different device, browser and screen size when browsing the web.
Whether it’s large format displays and multiple monitors, or tablets and smart phones, keeping track of all the possible sizes your website could be viewed at is almost impossible. Responsive website design can be the answer in many cases. A responsive website means quite literally that it responds properly to all devices and screen sizes.
It is done by scaling down or re-organizing content on the page using some CSS and HTML trickery, in order to create the best possible user experience on your site. Responsive design and development are still a bit new, even among the web guru community. Advertisement Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It Okay, so what is responsive design and how do I use it? Introduction to Responsive Web Design: Video Techniques For Gracefully Degrading Media Queries What if something isn’t supported? Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles of Good Design and How to Apply Them in Graphic Design. Articles April 25, 2012 After discussing the Vignelli Canon, we’re going to delve more into design principles applied in the different fields of design today.
One designer that I’ve always admired is the industrial designer, Dieter Rams. His works within different industries have become classic standards of simple, elegant, and lasting design. Yet though his principles of design have spread throughout the world, there are still far more thoughtlessly-designed products out in the market. Industrial Design for Graphic Design Industrial design is the process of creating a product that combines the best of aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability. (Source) As Vignelli would say, design is a language. The Ten Principles of Good Design Dieter Ram’s principles can be compared to Massimo Vignelli’s canon. Graphic Design… Is Innovative As Austin Kleon would put it, steal like an artist. (Source) 40 Quality Examples of iOS User Interface Designs. iOS is a mobile operating system developed and distributed by Apple Inc.
The user interface, is the industrial design field of human–machine interaction. iOS is based on the concept of direct manipulation, using multi-touch gestures. Interface control elements consist of sliders, switches, and buttons. As of March 6, 2012, Apple’s App Store contained more than 550,000 iOS applications. With new applications released on a daily basis, the App Store is being flooded with apps that we should tap. More applications means more competition > more competition means higher quality development and design > higher quality development and design means time consuming hard work. In order to attract new users, your application must be beautiful, fast, reliable, and easy to use. Mobile Coach by Bill S Kenney Weather by Bill S Kenney Qiwy IOS app by Mikael Eidenberg Showtime by buatoom Qiwy IOS app switches by Mikael Eidenberg iPhone OS ’86 by Anton Repponen Music Track Selector UI by Jeremy Sallée.