May 2011
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Realism in UI Design | UX Magazine →
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...
January 2011
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User Interface Design Framework →
Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit - UX... →
December 2010
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Guidelines for URI Design →
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Five Indispensable Skills for UX Mastery →
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Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to... →
We’re changing. Our relationships online and in real life are shifting as we become more public with our private lives. Online social networks have helped our real world social networks transcend time and space making it easy (and seemingly essential) to share the triumphs, tragedies, and trite moments of life. No longer do you simply tell your best friend that you’ve broken up with...
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30 Modern Free Futuristic Fonts →
Fillerati - Faux Latin is a Dead Language →
Instead of Lorem Ipsum.
“There were four million people in San Francisco—four teeth.”
The boys’ eyes ranged along from the teeth and from hand to hand, down through the pebbles and sand-grains to Edwin’s fingers. And back again they ranged along the ascending series in the effort to grasp such inconceivable numbers.
“That was a lot of folks, Granser,”...
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Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services →
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Ultimate Collection of Photoshop Brushes, Actions... →
A roundup of a showcase of over fifty different Photoshop brushes as well as a couple of actions and styles.
OpenHallway - Simple usability testing →
Try My UI - Get the Users View →
You sign up indicating what tasks you want users to perform on your site, how many users you want and their demographic profile.
Touch Gesture Diagrams →
“The following are ten common iPhone app design and usability mistakes that can...”
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10 Surefire Ways to Screw Up Your iPhone App | UX Magazine
7 Great Templates to Promote Your App Online →
Content design with cojones | Made by Many →
Designing User Interfaces For Business Web... →
Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places... →
Inspiration can be a fickle thing. Most designers, when lacking ideas, turn to design galleries to find ideas. But there are a few problems with that approach.
The UX Design Education Scam →
If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather slim that you’re employable as a user experience (UX) or web designer. Maybe you learned a lot of stuff; it’s just probably the wrong stuff. Congratulations, you’ve been defrauded. Hope it didn’t cost you or your parents too much.
What Makes Them Click - Applying Psychology to... →
Persona Cheat Sheet - LUXr →
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"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% →
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Applying the Golden Ratio to Web Layouts and... →
1.618 is a number all serious designers should know. It’s known as the golden ratio found throughout nature, art and architecture.
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Golden Ratio Calculator →
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50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits,... →
Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has the basic elements of a Web page: header, footer, sidebar, maybe even some...
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40 Brilliant Examples of Sketched UI Wireframes... →
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Introduction to iPhone Design →
Are you a web designer, excited by the idea of designing iPhone apps, but unsure of how to get started? Or perhaps you’ve designed a couple of apps, but are looking to boost your skills with some fundamental knowledge of why we make certain design decisions for mobile? This series is for both novice and intermediate-level designers who want to make a big splash in the mobile design space!
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House of Buttons →
A collection of great UI buttons spotted in the wild. Curated by Jason Long.
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Design with Intent Toolkit →
All design influences our behaviour, but as designers we don’t always consciously consider the power this gives us to help people, (and, sometimes, to manipulate them). There’s a huge opportunity for design for behaviour change to address social and environmental issues where people’s behaviour is important, but as yet little in the way of a guide for designers and other...
Tools & Tutorials for iPhone App Development -... →
AppMakr - Make your own iPhone App →
Interface - mockup & prototyping tool for iPhone &... →
http://www.androidpatterns.com/ →
This is androidpatterns.com, a set of interaction patterns that can help you design Android apps. An interaction pattern is a short hand summary of a design solution that has proven to work more than once. Please be inspired: use them as a guide, not as a law.
User Interface Guidelines | Android Developers →
Android UI Design Tips →
5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Developing a Successful... →
iPhone Application UI Design Patterns →
The iPhone is one big constraint — no keyboard, small screen, few buttons — so designing applications for the iPhone is an exercise in building smart, simple software. Bloated apps on the iPhone? You won’t find many. Most applications pick one feature or group of related features and centralize the product around that central theme.
The Power of Multi-touch →
Keynote themes and templates to prototype iPhone &... →
Instead of designing your prototype from scratch, simply copy and paste the interface elements from a Keynotopia template onto your slides, then add hyperlinks to make the interface clickable.
Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques... →
The iPhone 4 features a vastly superior display resolution (614400 pixels) over previous iPhone models, containing quadruple the 153600-pixel display of the iPhone 3GS. The screen is the same physical size, so those extra dots are used for additional detail — twice the detail horizontally, and twice vertically.
LukeW | Input: Moving Beyond Forms →
Location Sites Experiment to Attract Mainstream... →
Mobile web design tips: mobile should come first →
I’ll just come out and say it: websites and web applications should be designed for mobile first.
Usability Basics for Landing Page Design | ClickZ →
Optimizely: A/B Testing you'll actually use →
The Psychologist’s View of UX Design | UX Magazine →
How to get better at UI design →