Teaching to See
Documentary on teaching and design by Inge Druckrey produced by Edward Tufte. Via @rjs
View ArticlePairing typefaces
Combining typefaces is tricky so this post by Aura Seltzer on Typekit blog may come in handy.
View ArticleUICloud
Google-like search in the library of UI design elements, but wait, with source files such as PSD or HTML/CSS.
View ArticleOn Black
Ian Storm Taylor wrote a great piece about not using black (#000000) in your desings. One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work. Mrs....
View ArticlePrinciples of User Interface Design
List of 20 well articulated points by Joshua Porter.
View ArticleHigh DPI Images for Variable Pixel Densities
In terms of images, the goal of web app developers is to serve the best quality images as efficiently as possible. This article will cover some useful techniques for doing this today and in the near...
View ArticleJason Fried: Questions I ask when reviewing a design
I’ve been thinking more about how I review a design – both my own and someone else’s. So over the past couple days I’ve been writing down every question I’ve been asking when I look at a...
View ArticleWireframing Templates For Mobile Projects
As we are all going to do mobile first soon, these printable free templates will come in handy.
View ArticleJetstrap: WYSIWYG prototyping web app for Twitter Bootstrap
Jetstrap may be useful. Via @jakubspanihel
View ArticleDesigning the Hi-DPI Web
Nice overview how to code for high pixel density (160 PPI and up) displays. Via @daeltar
View ArticleRatchet: Prototyping iPhone apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Looks usefull. Via @robinraszka
View ArticleProduct Design Process Used by Mozilla UX Team
Brian Groudan on Mozilla UX blog: I worked closely with Mozilla user experience researchers and designers to rethink how Firefox can better offer “save for later” in the browser. Overview of the design...
View ArticleWrapBootstrap
A marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes and templates. Nice things happen when standards come up.
View ArticleFixing A Broken User Experience
Stefan Klocek writing a good one for the Smashing Magazine: In this article, we’ll introduce you to a strategy for fixing the broken experience that starts with surface improvements, goes progressively...
View ArticleApple’s Design Problems Aren’t Skeuomorphic
Article written by Kontra and goes along these lines. Apple’s software problems aren’t dark linen, Corinthian leather or torn paper. In fact, Apple’s software problems aren’t much about aesthetics at...
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Invention: Multiple-Choice “Windowed Slider” UI
Some good thinking done by Chris Norström. Solves the confusion of the classical “iPhone slider”, where you are not sure if the visible status (OFF) is the active one, or you have to switch to get to it.
View ArticleThe Big Badass List of 205 Useful Twitter Bootstrap Resources
Title says it all. Via @machal
View ArticleHow to Design like Apple (in 1 minute)
Good people at Online MBA have sent me a link to this video.
View ArticlejQuery.Shapeshift
Shapeshift is like Masonry but with drag & drop. Touch support included.
View ArticleForm Follows Function
Another example of what I call primary research in HTML5, CSS & JavaScript: FFF is a collection of interactive experiences. Each experience has its own unique design and functionality. All the...
View ArticleThe Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design
John Gruber fireballs: The trend away from skeuomorphic special effects in UI design is the beginning of the retina-resolution design era. Our designs no longer need to accommodate for crude pixels....
View ArticleWhat it’s Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
Glenn Reid writes: I can still remember some of those early meetings, with 3 or 4 of us in a locked room somewhere on Apple campus, with a lot of whiteboards, talking about what iMovie should be (and...
View ArticleWhy Most Software Goes Bad over Time
Jason Fried writing for the Inc. You don’t have to analyze the bottle like I just did to understand that it is well designed. You know it, because you can see the bottle, feel it, and use all of its...
View ArticleTwice on CSS Clip
Two tutorials by Codrops: Understanding the CSS Clip Property and Putting CSS Clip to Work.
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Image Picker
Image Picker is a simple jQuery plugin that transforms a select element into a more user friendly graphical interface.
View ArticleRedesigning Google
Dieter Bohn and Ellis Hamburger writing for The Verge: When Page took office, his first directive was clear. “Larry said ‘hey everyone, we’re going to redesign all of our products,’” recalls Jon Wiley,...
View ArticleRyan Singer on Native vs. Web Views
Native views and web views are good at different things. Native is good for high fidelity interaction, animations, responding to gestures. However the native APIs are bad for designing “documents” —...
View ArticleCommon UI Cases By Codrops
Blueprints by Codrops starting with full width image slider and elastic content slider.
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Flat UI
Free Web User Interface Kit. Think of it as a WordPress template but for your next web application.
View ArticleAmazon-like Mega Dropdown
Nice article about the classic dropdown menu problem – the one with the mouse cursor path. Even better, the post ends with a jQuery-menu-aim thingy :-)
View ArticleResponsive Inspector extension for Google Chrome
Piotr Walczyszyn created nice tool in Responsive Inspector (Chrome Web Store link).
View ArticleTruth in Design
Matt Gemmel in thoughtful essay: We forget that physical objects are also just specific embodiments – or presentations – of their content and function. A paperback book and an ebook file are two...
View ArticleInteresting Concept of Placing Loading Indicator
Hakim strikes again. I think this could work.
View ArticleSeeing Without Thinking
Jon Myers for Medium: Researchers have identified over 18 visual cues wired into our brains and the list keeps growing. These cues range from the orientation of lines, thickness of lines and blinking,...
View ArticleRyan Singer on Development Process
Ryan Singer is from 37signals and writes also his blog.
View ArticleThirteen Tenets Of User Experience
Robert Hoekman writes for Smashing Magazine: Following is my list of 13 beliefs on the value of user experience strategy, design, and designers, one for every year I’d been in the web industry at the...
View ArticleVital Elements of the Product Design Process
Ryan Singer sums it up nicely. Some points I particularly liked: The reason I am making a product is to give people capability they lack. That’s why they pay for it. The gap between the person’s...
View ArticleSeeing Spaces
What if we designed a new kind of “maker space” — a space that isn’t just for putting pieces together, but also for seeing and understanding a project’s behavior in powerful ways? — Bret Victor
View ArticleThe Shape of Things to Come
The New Yorker got unprecedented access to Apple’s Jony Ive and we got a small-book-sized article that gives us a glimpse into their design process. Well worth a read.
View ArticleThere Is No Fold
On the Web, people use the concept of “above the fold” to support layout decisions, call to action designs, ad placements, and more. Here’s why most of these arguments don’t fly. Nicely illustrated...
View ArticleThe Designer Litmus Test
Can we identify with certainty what makes some designers so good at their job? We think so, yes. Because when we look at the designers we admire, these six personality traits surface: ambition,...
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