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Peculiar Balance Asymmetrical Website Designs Developing website designs with a lopsided feel is a rather common approach nowadays. Majority of designers resorts to off-center landing pages in order to initially concentrate users’ attention on the most important things, recreating strong visual paths. An inability to draw a line of symmetry helps to naturally separate navigation or sidebar from the rest of the content, providing more room for informative part. Asymmetrical tension helps to convey various feelings and sense of motion. What Do Business People Really Think About Market Research? A Client-Side Perspective. By Neal Cole of Myth buster Blog What’s the most frustrating aspect of working as a client-side researcher? Some recent posts on Twitter #mrx suggest that research agencies may be the culprit. Well, we all have our bad days.
From Wayfinding to Interaction Design — Design/UX Before joining IDEO as an Interaction Designer, I worked for one of the more influential wayfinding design companies — Applied Information Group (now called Applied). Wayfinding is the process of planning and making journeys through spaces; wayfinding design companies develop systems to help make this planning and journey-making easier. These systems come in all shapes and sizes, and can cover area naming, signage design, cartography, defining route networks and installing new landmarks to give an area more character. At Applied Information Group we worked on everything from simple internal building systems for hospitals to complex city-wide, multi-modal schemes that encompassed every mode of transport that the city offered. While I won’t go through all of the principles in this article, there are a few I’ve found to be useful in my move from wayfinding design to interaction design. 1.
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Nike's Reactive, Kinetic Window Displays Change Shape [Video] Dutch creative agency …,staat designed a series of eight interactive window displays at Selfridges in London for Nike. The windows help show off the features of Nike’s products and were part of the House of Innovation collaboration, which PSFK featured last summer. …,staat now gives us a look at the exterior of the store that attracted customers and invited them to go inside. The interactive, reactive, and kinetic creations were made in collaboration with Nike Brand Design EMEA. The series of displays, infused with Nike products, interact with passersby in different ways.
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8 Insights About The Coming Era Of Interactive Design It’s all moving so quickly. Just yesterday, we were amazed by the miracle of making calls from our cars. Now we’re furious when our 4G cuts out while streaming an HD video on a four-inch touch screen, just because we’re 50 feet underground riding the subway. Best Online Web Development Courses of 2013 As a developer who keeps on learning and is not afraid to go back to basics, I’ve explored many different online courses and online curricula pertaining to web development. Based on a combination of experience and outside sources, I want to provide you with a rundown of how each online paid (or free) service may help you and if it’s worth it. You’re welcome to read my previous article on How To Start Being A Web Developer quickly in case you want a good rundown of what to learn and when to learn it. Generally speaking, most of them are worth it for their specific functions. Without further ado: Lynda ($25/month)