SoftFacade’s jaw-dropping icons
Look at this:
Or at this one:
I wonder how they do it. Anyway, SoftFacade designs jaw-dropping icons. End of story.
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UX Myths
Common wisdom is often mistaken. Maybe because it is based on the wisdom of crowds. There is no wisdom in crowds.
UX Myths aims to bring down such notions.
UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience design misconceptions and explains why they don’t hold true. And you don’t have to take our word for it, we’ll show you lots of researches and articles from design and usability gurus.
I love it.
Same copy, more convertions
If you didn’t know the outstanding Information Highwayman, it’s high time you dug it.
The man behind it writes once in a while but every single piece worths reading again and again. It’s one of these blogs that can change you.
These days Information Highwayman created for all of us a very comprehensive guide on how to get more conversions without changing your copy of your website.
Go and download it. It’s more than good. It’s exceptional.
Interface design vs. graphic design
Interface design is when one is designing something that will be used by humans. The understanding of how a user thinks, learns and adapts is important knowledge.
I’m not down playing graphic design in any way, it’s just different. For example, graphic designers have the intention to grab an emotional response visually. While Interface designers have the intention to grab a logical response mentally.
At last! Someone told one of the simplest truths in our profession.
Read the article on: http://m1k3.net/archives/distinction_between_interfaces_and_graphics
Icon design: an inside view
Jon Hicks recently talked about icon design at Future of Web Design conference. If there’s one man I admire on this design area, this person is Mr. Hicks.
So, I do recommend his presentation (17.3 MB, .pdf file) on icon design. It’s amazing and very very insightful.
#grid
#grid is a tiny jQuery plugin for the rest of us. What does it do?
It inserts a layout grid in web pages, allows you to hold it in place, and toggle between displaying it in the foreground or background.
I am not a fan of JavaScript plugins. I always try to avoid it unless it really enhances a website. But this is a jewel. An invisible one.
If you are a Web developer/designer, don’t miss #grid.
Beauty in Web design
Beauty in Web design is a series of articles written by Cennydd Bowles. The articles were based on his presentation at SXSW Interactive.
It has been a long time since I’ve read such fresh and truly inspiring content regarding our profession (and passion). So do yourself a favour and read the whole series.
- Beauty in web design, part 1 (defining beauty)
- Beauty in web design, part 2 (types of beauty)
- Beauty in web design, part 3 (achieving beauty in Web design)
Books in the age of the iPad
In printed books, the two-page spread was our canvas. It’s easy to think similarly about the iPad. Let’s not. The canvas of the iPad must be considered in a way that acknowledge the physical boundaries of the device, while also embracing the effective limitlessness of space just beyond those edges.
We’re going to see new forms of storytelling emerge from this canvas. This is an opportunity to redefine modes of conversation between reader and content. And that’s one hell of an opportunity if making content is your thing.
Such articles help us redefine the medium and the process of reading. Excellent.
Why you can’t work at work
Jason Fried, the soul of 37signals explains why it is practically impossible to work at your working environment.
What Fried says is not magic. Nor wisdom. It’s a reality we’ve learned to accept without asking why.
If our work is our passion we should something about it.
See the video: http://bigthink.com/ideas/18522
Jacqueline Novogratz on recognizing a linchpin
Sometimes videos can be so intriguing,
Here’s the link on Seth Godin’s blog: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/02/jacqueline-novogratz-on-recognizing-a-linchpin.html