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view tag archiveMost UX designers use qualitative research—typically in the form of usability tests—to guide their decision-making. However, using quantitative data to measure user experience can be a very different proposition. Over the last two years our UX team at Vanguard has developed some tools and techniques to help us use quantitative data effectively. We’ve had some successes, we’ve had some failures, we’ve laughed, we’ve cried, and we’ve developed ten key guidelines that you might find useful.
Ten Guidelines for Quantitative Measurement of UX | UX Magazine
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La Graphica is a one man and one dog operation. Jon Jackson started designing under the alias well over 10 years ago. Not living in the past, recently Jon won a Cannes Gold Lion, 2 Creativity Platinum Awards, a Hive award, a Web Award for Travel Standard of Excellence, ran a triathlon, learned to play guitar and won a mustache contest. Jon is currently a Creative Director for HUGE in Brooklyn, and Red is currently sleeping or chewing on something.
Give it a whirl! If you’re using a desktop browser on a fairly large screen, try re-sizing your browser to see how the layout changes on this page. If not, take a look at this page on your desktop/laptop and then check it out on a mobile device.
Responsive Web Design fun and experimentation | Handcrafted Pixels | Pixel Creation
Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept.
MNfashion is dedicated to providing resources and professional development to the local fashion community that will enhance and support a thriving, sustainable local fashion industry.
Art-directed blogs (sometimes also referred to as “blogazines”) are making strides in the blogosphere. Looking at them, it can be tempting to jump on the bandwagon and start creating your own art-directed posts. But it’s not that straightforward.
ABOUT Die Welt von iGNANT lebt in Formen, in Ideen und in künstlerischem Ausdruck. Mit dem Internet hat die Verbreitung formalästhetischer Standards eine neue Geschwindigkeit, die Schlüssigkeit einer Idee eine ganz neue Reichweite bekommen.
The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.
As designers who work with clients, we often concern ourselves with output; most of the apps we use are designed to produce it.
It’s been a while since I last talked about a design project here on my blog. My intention is to do a follow up on the post I wrote about the design of this blog, but I thought it would be more interesting to talk about a client project first. The one I want to share with you here is the design for a webshop we (at Duoh!) designed and (front-end) coded, called Designcollectors
The button is also a great place to showcase many of the new CSS3 properties in one place, which is another reason I’m particularly taken with buttons at the moment. Through the use of box-shadow, text-shadow, border-radius, and CSS gradients, we can create highly polished interface components that don’t require images.
lanterns:on is a journal of notes and illuminations concerning graphic design and visual communication.
Wireframes are one of the main tools in the user experience designer’s toolkit. Most usability and web design books devote a considerable section to sketching, paper prototyping, and other forms of planning. But while I agree wireframes can have their place in some projects, I think they are actually detrimental in a lot of cases.
Book cover design is a strange exercise in which one attempts to distill iconic imagery from hundreds of pages of text. Engaging the audience is the name of the game here. and it’s interesting to see how the different audiences and sensibilities on either side of the Atlantic can result in very different looks. The American covers are on the left, and clicking through takes you to a larger image. Your equally inexpert analysis is encouraged in the comments.
Design Milk is an online magazine dedicated to modern design. Our goal is to bring you what’s fresh and new in art, architecture, interior design, furniture and decor, fashion, and technology.
24 inspirational blogs, books and articles on user interface patterns
24 inspirations [...] on user interface patterns – paul olyslager
UI Scraps is a collection of good, bad and noteworthy user interface designs found by Jason Robb
User Interface Design patterns are recurring solutions that solve common design problems. Design patterns are standard reference points for the experienced user interface designer.
You can test many of our site’s adaptive capabilities by simply resizing your desktop browser window. Certain capabilities—related to content adaptation—are however best viewed on a mobile device. Please read about our approach and content below for details.
Getting t-shirts printed is an ideal way to promote your business, organization or event. They are a promotional item that people can actually use, and they have the added bonus of being an advertisement for you. In this post, Adobe Illustrator will be used to create a three-color screen print using a fictional company logo, and have it set up to allow a screen printer to easily print the color separations that create the separate screens for each color print.
Preparing Artwork for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator – Smashing Magazine
A FRENCHMANÂ PROTECTING YOUR SECRETS.YES, SERIOUSLY.
Read the stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts. Now open to the public in a searchable, linkable format.Read the stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts. Now open to the public in a searchable, linkable format.
Have fun with our typographic advent calendar, and get a free webfont every day in December from Fontdeck.
Grassroots job listings for the Design, Development, Technology and Web Industry in the UK
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We believe that such round-ups are valuable because they present many useful pointers in one place. From time to time we have many inquiries about such round-ups and we gladly prepare them for our readers, along with in-depth articles which are regularly published on Smashing Magazine.
Web Typography: Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques – Smashing Magazine
This site is a proof of concept for many of the ideas described in Rethinking the Mobile Web. Over the coming months, we will release articles covering our approach in detail. In the meantime why not discover how these ideas came to be and how this site was developed.
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