Showing entries in the category “Design & UX”
08.08.2014
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Design & UX
| by Ricky Ferris
Fonts and typefaces are the stylistically different words that make up at least half of our interaction with the web. They define spaces, tones, and everything we see or read that isn’t videos or images, and yet despite this fonts and typefaces get little credit and even less consideration.
How often do you visit a site and think to yourself “Wow! This font really brings the page together? For most, a website is the coming together of two important components, those being design and content.
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07.23.2014
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Design & UX
| by Brian Troke
Have you ever visited a website that, when prompted, would take you to a new page by sliding the current page away to the side? Another visually interesting way to achieve this is to scroll a user down a site to the page in question, and have the navigation bar travel with them. These are just some of many ways to achieve what is starting to be referred to as Natural Design.
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07.16.2014
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Design & UX
Tips
| by Ashley Hurshman
Here’s the reality: everywhere you go, you have your smartphone. Waiting for appointments, commuting, working, resting - at any given time, you’re browsing the internet, doing research and probably on social media. These habits aren’t new, but the medium that we view our media on is.
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07.04.2014
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Design & UX
Tips
| by Brian Troke
During it’s 2014 I/O conference, Google announced the future of their unified design efforts: Material Design. A flat, colourful visual theory that’s built on ideas of tactile reality and inspired by paper and ink. The end goal is an immediately familiar functionality that’s meaningful and consistent across devices, which “reflect a different view of the same underlying system”.
But why does any of this matter? Why is Google, or anyone for that matter, pouring time and creative energy into a theme is stylistically consistent across not only hardware, but software as well?
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10.17.2013
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Announcements
Design & UX
Technology
| by Brian Troke
With all the talk about UX these days, it's sometimes easy to get it
confused with user-interface (UI) design. For example, someone might
say, "Hey, I like X's website better than Y's because it has a better
UX". Translation: 'X's website is more visually attractive'.
But here's an important point to consider: User-Experience is everything about your product/brand that a user experiences.
That might seem really obvious and not-too-insightful. Here's what I
really mean by it; Your Chief Financial Officer doesn't impact UX
whatsoever because customers generally has no idea what the financial
status of a company is (excluding publicly traded companies, of course)
and even if they do it has to be very poor for it to affect their choice
to use your product.
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