Great article on this topic by Patrick Lynch in the latest issue of A List Apart. Also check out Lynch’s list of “must haves” for any information design reference library.
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Aesthetics & visual decision making
Posted in user experience design, web design on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Screenshots from Designing Web Interfaces
Posted in design, interaction design, user experience design, web design, tagged design patterns, interaction design, interaction patterns, rich interactions on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Scott, author of Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, recently posted a ton of videos illustrating the design patterns from his book on Flickr. To get a complete sense of the value of employing design patterns for web sites (or anything else you might design), I recommend reading Scott’s book alongside The Design [...]
IxDA booklist
Posted in design, documentation, experience integration, information architecture, Uncategorized, user experience design, web design, tagged books, experience design, interaction design, IxDA, reading list, visual design on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Malouf recently posted the wonderful IxDA booklist he and Will Evans compiled to the IA Institute’s discussion list. Here are a few other must-reads I would add to their list. Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous Michael Bierut, Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design Dan Roam, The Back of the Napkin Alain de [...]
Inspire UX
Posted in user experience design, tagged inspiration, user experience on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Catriona Cornett has created an interesting new blog with a very specific aim: to catalog inspiring and thought-provoking quotations in relation to user experience design. Here’s how she describes it: “The idea behind it is pretty simple. I post user experience quotes that display the impact UX has on the world, and put them into [...]
