David Plunkert A brief history of user experience Think about the last time you ate at a restaurant. What cuisine did it serve? What made you to choose that particular restaurant? What was your first impression as you walked in? Were you asked to wait till you were ushered to an available seat? Your answers to these questions, including all the emotional highs and lows, encompass the restaurant’s user experience (UX). However, when people use the term UX, they’re usually referring to one’s experience with a digital or technological product or service. Today, UX has grown into an important design discipline that continues to grow and evolve. To think about where the much debated-practice of user experience design will take us next, it’ll help to take a look back at some of the key events in its meandering evolution. Circa 1430: Leonardo da Vinci’s “kitchen nightmare” Comically, however, the conveyer belts operated too erratically for the workers and—to make matters worse—the sprinkler system went off, ruining some of the food. References
200 Portfolio Sites for Web Design Inspiration Designers and developers are growing in numbers and plenty of these folks have outstanding portfolios. The common advantage of the Internet is that anybody from anywhere in the world can check out your projects during any time of the day! If you wish to land more freelance work then I would recommend taking a peek at your current portfolio to see if anything could be updated. And to help with building ideas for your own website, I have collected 200 various portfolios of graphics designers, developers, writers, and other digital creatives. If you like this post you might also like our post 35 mobile responsive portfolio layouts Mathew Helme Mat has one of the nicest portfolio sites I’ve seen. Aaron C-T Clean and lightweight is a great way to get started. Becky Murphy Becky is a writer and illustrator who has created some great pieces and her own book. Nidhi Chanani One of my favorite illustrators is Nidhi because of her style and context. Vitor Kirk Wallace Mary Fran Wiley Lilondra Ospina D.
María Hergueta TETHR – The Most Beautiful iOS Design Kit Ever Made – by InVision Beautiful iOS templates at your fingertips. We're talking $80 worth of Photoshop, Sketch, and Craft Library templates... totally free. Source Files Templates UI Elements Make it minimal Clean, modern designs match the flat iOS interface. Mix + match Drag-and-drop elements make it easy to concept any iPhone app. Retina-ready So there’s no need to worry about optimizing your assets. Where should we send your kit? Get free UI kits, icon packs, mockups, and more Experimental Typography Grundini Peter Grundy and Tilly Northedge met at the Royal College of Art in the late 70s where they became interested in a visual communication that explained rather than sold things. In 1980 they started a studio to do information design in a new and creative way which they called Grundy & Northedge Hugh Aldersey-Williams writing in Graphis in 1995 said of them; The humble basic communication of information has never had the glamour of other areas of design. The creation of a poster casts the designer as an artist. Peter Grundy and Tilly Northedge worked together for twenty-five years.
Outdated UX patterns and alternatives Meet North, design and development standards to align and guide your project. It's a comprehensive guide contributed to the open source community to encourage, "a mobile-first, in-browser, system based approach to design and development." Check out North on GitHub: The section of the guide that I found most interesting is, Outdated UX Patterns, a collection of examples of what not to do when building a website, which tries to steer designers from borrowing from ineffective practices to solve common problems. Just like how presentations deprecate, so do UX patterns. It may be ambitious to call some of these patterns "outdated" since many of them are still prevalent across the web. Carousels These are everywhere on the web, but largely inefficient when it comes to getting users to engage with content past the first slide. Carousels exist to keep people from beating the shit out of each other in meetings. — Brad Frost Alternative: Large Background Images Alternatives: Counterargument: Overlays
Mission Control - Always With Honor Always With Honor is the collective work of Tyler & Elsa Lang. Their mission is to create work that reflects their curiosity and pursuit of clarity. Client List Audubon Boke Bowl Bon Appetit Businessweek Cascadia Ciderworkers United Chronicle Books Esquire Facebook Fortune GOOD GQ Harper Collins Kiplinger Metropolis Microsoft Money Monocle MTV New York Times Nike Ogilvy & Mather Path Real Simple TED The Atlantic The Manual Threadless Toyota UBS VSA Wired Xbox AWH Press Room A roundup of frequently asked questions. What is your logo? Our logo is the planet Jupiter, with its all seeing, all knowing eye watching over us. Where did you go to school, how did you meet and what did you do before AWH? We met in college at Ringling College of Art & Design. How did you get into the field of information/icon design? We both love icon design and illustration so we would incorporate them into our work as much as possible. What is your process, do you always work together or individually? Pie or cake?
Stephen P. Anderson - UX Lausanne 2015 Design has earned the attention of businesses everywhere. The demand for breakthrough ideas couldn’t be stronger. It’s time for smart “idea” people to take center stage. How do we break out of these safe practices? What separates the celebrated “creative” person from others is a set of habits, routinely practiced. In this workshop, speaker Stephen P. Dozens of practical tips and exercises to help you produce more original design ideas.How to look at nearly any problem from multiple perspectives.How to reframe problems that are handed to you.Ways to blend seemingly unrelated ideas to produce something new.The creative thought process used by Stephen in his day-to-day design and product strategy work. Basically, you’ll learn how to get from “This needs some fresh ideas” to “I don’t know how you do it!” Designers, UX practitioners, and product people of any level looking for ways to arrive at more innovative ideas.
John Devolle / Clear as Mud Illustration regular Illustration for Frank Strack's 'Rules' column in Cyclist magazine. This one's about the art of designing your team kit.Illustration2015 Cover illustration for Professional Engineering Magazine, exploring the pros and cons of fracking.Illustration2015 I realised the other day that I have been skateboarding for 26 years!Illustration2015 a little news illustration for Waitrose magazine about a new service buy 'Bistro @ the station'. You can text your food order whilst on the train so it is ready for you when you arrive at the station.Illustration2015 Large Male Chicken, or Moody Rooster? Notice the deliberately crude printing, no trapping, misalignment etc. personal project, 'Sometimes its good to Lie'Illustration2011