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Improving Your Information Architecture With Card Sorting: A Beginner's Guide. How cards are taking over Web design. From news sites to real estate, cards are everywhere on the Web today. Those little rectangles full of inclusive images and text have been so successful in Web design that they’ve almost become a default option when it comes to balancing clear aesthetics with simple usability. But don’t mistake trendiness for usefulness – there’s a reason cards are so popular. Photo credit: Google Now As a design framework for organizing large amounts of content – image, headline, main text, call-to-action (such as a share button or link) – on an equal plane, cards have become the go-to structure for the container style of design. Furthermore, this emphasis on organization and clarity extends outside of the desktop, making them ideal for mobile and responsive designs as well. In this article we’ll explain how cards benefit the container, responsive, and mobile design styles.

Photo credit: Photo credit: UXPin Photo credits: 1. 2. 3. 4. The 14 Best Data Visualization Tools. Nishith Sharma is the co-founder of frrole, a social intelligence startup. Raw data is boring and it’s difficult to make sense of it in its natural form. Add visualization to it and you get something that everybody can easily digest. Not only you can make sense of it faster, but you can also observe interesting patterns that wouldn’t be apparent from looking only at stats. All Killer, No Filler This one’s different, trust us. Our new event for New York is focused on quality, not quantity. To make the tedious task of making beautiful charts and maps easier, I’ve made the list of best data visualization tools available for the job. Let’s get started! For Developers D3.js D3.js, short for ‘Data Driven Documents’, is the first name that comes to mind when we think of a Data Visualization Software.

It doesn’t ship with pre-built charts out of the box, but has a nice gallery which showcases what’s possible with D3. FusionCharts Chart.js It uses HTML5 canvas element for rendering charts. Google Charts. Meng To: Bridging the gap between design and code | HackingUI. We are proud to present an interview with Meng To – one of the most inspiring designers today and author of the new book Design + Code – From Sketch to Xcode. Hey Meng, tell us a bit about yourself, and how you came to be a designer I’m a product designer who’s been traveling around the world. I guess that’s who I am now, due to visa problems. There’s no real home for me at this moment. As a kid, I moved to a new place almost every year. As I grew older, I was fascinated by technology.

I’ve always loved helping people understand the craftsmanship behind products. Can you tell us a bit about your travels? Prior to San Francisco, I was in Montreal working for startups that tried to emulate the success in Silicon Valley. So when I found an opportunity to move to San Francisco, I took it in a heartbeat. I didn’t want to go back to Montreal. Workspace How far do you want to go with developing your coding skills? I learned to code out of necessity. What keeps you motivated? Design + code At work. Design+Code: Learn iOS design and Xcode.

Build a Swift app with Xcode * Ready for Xcode 7 and Swift 2 When I wrote Chapter 3 last year, it was written in Objective-C. Things improved dramatically since. Swift made code simpler and it quickly became one of the top languages used. You'll learn prototyping in Storyboard, Auto Layout, Designable Views, animation and Swift to design and build an iOS app from a designer's perspective.

In Part II, you'll learn how to work with real data using a Table View Controller. This is the final app that you'll build.