World's Best Creative Team How is crowdSPRING different from other marketplaces? From the start, we designed crowdSPRING to be a better marketplace and community. crowdSPRING has the largest creative community on the planet (100,000+ designers and writers). crowdSPRING offers more choice per project (an average of 110+ concepts per project). We let you set your own price and your own schedule. We handle all the details, including escrow and payment, project management tools, and even give you a free customized legal agreement to protect your purchase. Thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses from nearly 100 countries have leveraged crowdSPRING's creative team for custom logo design, web design, other types of custom graphic design, and writing projects. Is crowdSPRING's creative community sophisticated and experienced? Yes. crowdSPRING was the first marketplace in the world to move beyond the design of mere logos and t-shirts. What are PRO projects? Buyers have full control over access to their Pro project.
Andrew Parker - The Gong Show: Metric-Driven Design Authentic home cooked Chinese dinner from Leo and Helen on Zaarly If your impression of Chinese food is greasy and starchy, you may not have had the real deal. Here in Los Angeles, the only place to find authentic Chinese food is if you drive east 20 minutes past downtown, in the Chinese populated San Gabriel Valley. Yet one can still get confused by the hundreds of translated items on the English menus. Here at the Pig-In, we offer everyone a fare chance to try and explore authentic Chinese food without the hassle of a reading a giant menu - we offer a prix fix menu that stays true to the Chinese food sharing culture, complete with soup, vegetable dishes, and protein dishes. At $20/head, the size of the menu varies depending on number of guests sharing.
The Value of Good Design Drawar has published a couple of interesting posts about the importance of design and aesthetics for online businesses last week. The main premise is this: businesses succeed and fail on the web regardless of how well designed their sites are. An ugly website will succeed if their product or service is good, so why bother making something beautiful? Now, Paul Scrivens' position on this is that you should care, and that pushing out something that’s just good enough isn’t what web designers should strive for. I agree. It’s not difficult to find examples of businesses with beautiful websites but no traffic. Of course on the other end we have pig ugly websites that are wildly successful. This will vary depending on your product or service, but in many cases it can and will make a difference. The easiest example is of course Apple. When your product is commoditized, you have to change the rules of the game. I don’t think this design advantage somehow only applies to hardware.
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Realism in UI Design The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects, shadows, translucency, and even simple physics. Some of these changes have helped usability. Shadows behind windows help us see which window is active. The physicality of the iPhone’s user interface makes the device more natural to use. In other areas, the improvements are questionable at best. Details and realism can distract from these concepts. The image on the left is a face of a specific person. At the same time, it’s obvious that some details are required. The circle on the left clearly shows a face. Let’s look at a symbol we actually see in user interfaces, the home button. The thing on the left is a house. The thing on the left is a home button. Let me explain this concept using an entirely unscientific graph: The button on the left is too realistic.
Gnip Provides Social Media Data for the Enterprise Ambient User Experience How do you perceive Walmart’s ambience? Next time you go into a department store, look for a couple of things: signposts (detailing where items are located throughout the store), cashiers (ready to assist you should you have any questions), and muzak (that oh-so-good, yet oh-so-bad “elevator music”). Do you think you would find them? I imagine so. The point of this exercise isn’t the visibility/audibility of these things, but their utility in a different sense. Our societal notion of a good retail store is defined in large part by what has worked (and what hasn’t) over the course of iterative experience design. These are the sorts of elements which make up ambient user experience, the experiences that subtly align with user expectations. How we experience Even “novel” ways of interacting with the world are themselves tempered by previous experiences. If a pair of scissors works, it works. Magdalena C.’s review on Yelp.com General ambient experience on the Web Search: let me help myself
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iA » Designing for iPad: Reality Check by Oliver Reichenstein Over the last two months we have been working on several iPad projects: two news applications, a social network, and a word processor. We worked on iPad projects without ever having touched an iPad. Even though we developed everything inside the black box of Photoshop, it became quite clear that iPad application design is substantially different from web design in many ways. 1. The obvious issue with the resolution gap is typography. Is the font big enough? …we had no choice but to print out 1:1 scale mockups. Reality check: Wow, this thing is sharp! After two months of printing, we did get the typography pretty much right, but there was another surprise waiting for us: The sharpness. Web body text sizes (14-16px) feel too small on iPad, while bigger sizes clash with the canvas dimensions. The iPad’s resolution is higher than a regular LCD but still lower than an iPhone, which gives the pixel type an unusual “in between” feel. 2. Dubious UI guideline principles 3.
Wishbox: Get User Feedback with Annotated Screenshots Wishbox is a new way to get feedback. With its screenshots, you’ll be able to find out exactly what the problem is and receive suggestions. You can use it for online customer support, or even manage web design projects with Wishbox as a form of communication between you and your client. Feedback Button A simple, customizable feedback button to engage your users without disturbing their visit. Screenshot Wishbox can take a screenshot of your website. Web Form Jotform, the engine running behind Wishbox, will enable you to embed any web form in your Wishbox. Email Notification Get notified instantly by email.