GDS design principles
8 weeks ago by mtowber
Government Digital Service Design Principles
design
ux
uxd
webdesign
lists
8 weeks ago by mtowber
wordmark.it
january 2011 by mtowber
"preview words with the fonts installed on your computer"
design
fonts
typography
webdesign
january 2011 by mtowber
ignore the code: Opinions vs. Data
august 2010 by mtowber
"If there’s one thing we should all take to heart, it’s that humans are strange: They rarely behave the way we expect (or want) them to. Testing often reveals issues we would never have found out by merely thinking about a design. Conversely, something that looks wrong might actually work perfectly well."
uxd
design
webdesign
usability
august 2010 by mtowber
Check My Colours - Analyse the color contrast of your web pages
march 2010 by mtowber
"a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits. All the tests are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)."
color
accessibility
webdesign
march 2010 by mtowber
Retrospective: What We Learned from Ubiquity « Not The User’s Fault
march 2010 by mtowber
“Monotony” is the quality an interface has when there is only a single way to do something. The name “monotony” sounds like a bad thing, but it’s actually a good quality. There’s only one “middle C” key on a piano. Super Mario Bros. only has one way to jump: the A button. It doesn’t have a “jump” menu item or a “jump” keyboard shortcut. Lack of monotony complicates an interface, as well as taxing your brain by making you decide which method to use each time you use it.
design
webdesign
firefox
ubiquity
interface
ux
usability
march 2010 by mtowber
Home - compass - GitHub
march 2010 by mtowber
"Compass is a stylesheet authoring tool that uses the Sass stylesheet language to make your stylesheets smaller and your web site easier to maintain. Compass provides ports of the best of breed css frameworks that you can use without forcing you to use their presentational class names."
css
webdev
webdesign
march 2010 by mtowber
Lost Garden: Ribbon Hero turns learning Office into a game
january 2010 by mtowber
"Imagine Microsoft Office turned into a video game. One where learning a productivity app is a delight. One where the core loop of gameplay involves using and gaining skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint."
games
design
ux
webdev
webdesign
january 2010 by mtowber
Iconic Icon Set
january 2010 by mtowber
"Iconic is a minimal set of icons consisting of 84 marks in raster and vector formats — free for public use."
icons
design
webdesign
january 2010 by mtowber
Functioning Form - The Apple Store's Checkout Form Redesign
december 2009 by mtowber
"Apple's online store certainly played a role in this achievement as retail sales data shows that Mac sales were up 21% year-over-year in the months of October and November. So it's interesting to note that Apple's primary online sales channel (Web-based checkout) was redesigned during this time"
forms
usability
ux
interface
webdesign
apple
shopping
articles
december 2009 by mtowber
Sender 11: Mobile screen size trends
november 2009 by mtowber
"Over at mBricks my colleagues have put a lot of work into the device database (we work with WURFL data and contribute back as well as we can). I took the opportunity to take a closer look at screen size trends. The data I have covers about 400 different device models sold from 2005 to today."
mobile
webdesign
design
reference
interface
ui
november 2009 by mtowber
Drupal 7 User Experience Project
october 2009 by mtowber
"Our UX Principles: 1. Make the most frequent tasks easy and less frequent tasks achievable. 2. Design for the 80% 3. Privilege the Content Creator 4. Make the default settings smart"
ux
uxd
blogs
webdev
usability
drupal
webdesign
october 2009 by mtowber
Well-formed data | Elastic lists | Nobel prize winners demo
october 2009 by mtowber
slide-y faceted searches
visualization
search
interface
ui
webdesign
october 2009 by mtowber
Facebook Facelift - Home, Profiles & Publisher on the Behance Network
october 2009 by mtowber
"The Facebook Facelift is a self initiated project to challenge the form and functionality of Facebook. It's streamlined, structured, linear interface is more comprehendible, enhancing the user experience and absorbability of content."
facebook
webdesign
design
ixd
uxd
october 2009 by mtowber
mir.aculo.us with Thomas Fuchs » Blog Archive » textorize: Pristine Font rendering for the Web
october 2009 by mtowber
"It all boils down to a Ruby script that runs on OS X only and uses OS X’s really awesome typography and subpixel antialiased font rendering. Why not tap into this to make those headline graphics? With Rubycocoa you can easily whip up a small app that draws some text, and save it into a PNG file."
typography
webdesign
ruby
fonts
osx
design
mac
october 2009 by mtowber
50 Most Usable RIAs | InsideRIA
september 2009 by mtowber
a long sigh to the unnecessary acronym...
usability
ux
uxd
design
webdesign
interface
webdev
inspiration
september 2009 by mtowber
Loripscream - It's Generatively Delicious!
june 2009 by mtowber
"Click on a flavor, and watch as it generates a serving of fake information right before your eyes. Use it as filler copy, in your book report, or whisper it to your special someone. Be sure to check out our web-service API, if you're into that."
webdesign
webapp
webdev
june 2009 by mtowber
Font Squirrel
may 2009 by mtowber
"Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses."
fonts
typography
design
webdesign
may 2009 by mtowber
The future of wireframes? | Made By Many - London based next generation social media digital agency
may 2009 by mtowber
"We create the smallest number of wireframes to explore a concept before stopping and reviewing. Does the idea hold up? If so, add on another layer of information and see whether it still stands. If it doesn’t, change direction and explore another route.
wireframes
webdesign
ia
may 2009 by mtowber
Video: Introduction to WCAG 2 : Boagworld web design podcast
february 2009 by mtowber
"I recently gave an internal presentation at Headscape about WCAG 2. A number of people expressed an interest in seeing it so I made a point to record it."
accessibility
webdesign
videos
towatch
february 2009 by mtowber
Basic Pictograms | Services | NTT DOCOMO
january 2009 by mtowber
docomo's i-mode emoji - great use of 144 pixels
visualization
webdesign
design
icons
january 2009 by mtowber
Georgia On My Mind - Inspiration Bit
january 2009 by mtowber
32 sites that use only Georgia
design
webdesign
css
typography
fonts
january 2009 by mtowber
Fear of the High Fidelity Wireframe | Konigi
december 2008 by mtowber
good discussion around low- vs. mid- vs. high-fidelity wireframes
ux
webdesign
uxd
wireframes
december 2008 by mtowber
Javascript Snow: DHTML Snowstorm
december 2008 by mtowber
Snowstorm: A Javascript Snow Effect for HTML... plus breaking lights
webdev
javascript
webdesign
december 2008 by mtowber
New York Times Conversations
december 2008 by mtowber
great way to interact with video
webdesign
videos
interviews
december 2008 by mtowber
Lost Garden: The Princess Rescuing Application: Slides
october 2008 by mtowber
"My talk was on building an application that rescued princesses. The goal was to give interaction designers some insight into how game design might be applied to the domain of more utilitarian applications."
games
gamedev
usability
ux
ucd
webdesign
october 2008 by mtowber
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