Product design digest, April 2015
For five years now I have been publishing regular reviews of fresh articles on the topic of interfaces, new tools and collections of patterns, interesting cases and historical stories. From the tapes of several hundred thematic subscriptions, approximately 5% of the worthwhile publications are selected that are interesting to share. Previous materials: April 2010-March 2015 .
UX 365 - Discovering user experience
Hannah Atkin in his blog collects a visual dictionary of UX-terms.
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Baymard E-Commerce Product List Usability
Excerpts from Baymard Institute’s product listing pages on e-commerce sites:
Banish the Hamburger Menu, Adopt Pizza Menus
Nielsen / Norman Group talks about the inefficiency of the burger menu and offers more modern options: pizza menu and sushi menu for the Eastern market. Continuing the theme:
6 types of digital affordance that impact your UX
Paula Borowska describes 6 types of Affordants.
Mobile User Experience: Limitations and Strengths
Raluca Bidiu from the Nielsen / Norman Group has gathered a good selection of the current state of the strengths and weaknesses of the mobile context of using services. It is interesting, however, that while the company's website has not been adapted for phones yet.
Applications "Jellyfish": how to get some five
Circa offered an unobtrusive way to get app evaluation from users. For Meduza applications, this solution gave a great exhaust.
ReactiveDesign
A selection of principles for the perception of the speed of the interfaces.
Practical empathy
The second chapter of the book Indy Young. "Empathy brings balance." Continuing the theme:
7 Things Every Designer
Good accessibility note from Jesse Hausler from SalesForce.
The Key to Improving Digital is ...
An overview of research and concepts on how synchronizing communication across all channels helps to convey the meaning of a message accurately. Only 7% of the meaning is conveyed in words, the rest is tonality and body language. The article examines ways to raise this figure in online communication.
Can 'User-Experience' Experts Become 'Customer-Experience' Experts?
Some traditional UX agencies are starting to try themselves at CX. Toby Bottorf o transition from User Expereince to Customer Experience.
Content Migration Alone
Kara Pernice from Nielsen / Norman Group provides recommendations on content migration when redesigning intranet sites. It is important to filter unclaimed information and not pull it into the new version.
Design Universal Windows Platform (UWP) App
Microsoft has published guidelines for the design of universal applications for Windows 10. The general principles of adaptive interfaces of the new platform, as well as templates, are true, for some reason, only for PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator. In the last days of April, the Build 2015 Developer Conference was held, part of the presentations of which were devoted to design:
Nokia 1100 - The PSD mockups you've always wanted
On April 1, Aerolab Studio prepared the Nokia 1100 template in PSD. After that, the designers at Dribbble were actively involved in the translation of known applications for this format . They also promise the Casio F-91W electronic clock pattern. And a bit more:
New for Material Design
New for Apple Watch
New for Android Wear
Modern editorial CMS
Publishing Tools
Mailing Lists
New to Sketch
New for Pixate
New for InVision
The three lenses of usability evaluation
David Travis from UserFocus cites three approaches to user research, which show well the connection of methods with the company's overall strategy. A good example of adjusting an extensive toolkit UX-specialist for a specific situation.
The Future of UX Research: Uncovering the True Emotions of Our Users
A review of the current state of psychophysiological research from Andrew Schall.
Do You Notice Your Design Elements? 3 Ways to Find Out
Jeff Sauro describes three ways to find out that users meaningfully saw something in your design - polls, eye-tracking and observations. Each of them has its own reservations, because a person’s gaze may fall on an element unconsciously.
How to Measure Your Reliability of Your Methods and Metrics
Jeff Sauro offers four ways to verify the reliability of user research methods and metrics. Comparison of the opinions of different experts, repeated surveys, the variability of the order and set of questions, the division of respondents into several samples.
A Guide to User Testing
A quick reference to the types of usability testing methods by Jerry Cao. Continuation and full version of the reference book describing more than 30 testing methods in the book from UXPin.
User polls
No More Pogo Sticking: Protect Users from Wasted Clicks
Aurora Bedford on how to use analytics in order to identify cases of pogo sticking - when users search for information, go to the page and immediately come back, after finding what they expected.
Wargaming executives on researching player behavior in World of Tanks and other games
How does the analytics team at Wargaming. On tasks, audience, tools, approaches. Continuing the theme:
3 Reasons Why Crowdsourcing Fails
Craig Tomlin identified the three main problems of user research using surveys on the site. Non-representative sampling, people's words are at odds with their behavior, incorrect questions.
An In-Depth Overview Of The Living Style Guide Tools
Robert Kharitonov made a good review of tools for maintaining live guidelines on Smashing Magazine. It's great that they are divided into classes of "maturity" and opportunities. Continuing the theme:
New scripts
Cutting mobile design
Work with SVG
Work with color
Layer overlay effects in modern browsers
New to Quartz Composer
Work with CSS animation
Work with Flexbox
Can Good Design Be Measured?
An offshoot of the Pamela Pavliscak series on design measurement.
Yuri Vetrov - From Design Team to Design Culture
My presentation from the CodeFest 2015 conference on how to move from building a design team to building a design culture. This is the fourth part in the series about the UX-strategy - by the summer it will appear in the form of an extended article. The third, by the way, is now being read by UXMatters.
Five or seven years ago, everyone was talking about the right processes, but now they are no longer enough - this is rather a hygienic requirement and a guideline. They help out common values, thanks to which the whole company can become a design team. This presentation is about building a design culture, which depends on three components - the team, the leaders and a set of basic procedures. Some of the topics did not have time to open in this format, but for the article the picture will be more holistic. Continuing the theme:
Git Large File Storage
GitHub has opened up the ability to track the versioning of large files, including media and graphics. This is an explicit invitation for designers to connect to one of the most popular collaboration tools. Announcement with a little explanation . Continuing the theme:
4 Things Strategists Can Learn From UX Designers
At SXSW, Google conducted a panel dedicated to the collaboration between UX designers and product strategists. Under the link short squeeze from it.
Resist the redesign
Alina Senderzon from ZURB writes about redesign, at least making changes to the product. One of the reasons for this desire is the gradual accumulation of differences in products, which is often expressed in the difference in buttons. It also manifested itself in our team, although the reasons are not only in designers - only a technological solution can solve this problem once and for all. Continuing the theme:
How To Become A UX Leader
Robert Hoekman Jr also writes about what the UX leader should do.
Becoming Design-Infused: 2 Necessary Mutations to Organizational DNA
Many companies are trying to become more design-oriented, but few of them get it really. Jared Spool on why sometimes a product with a perfect UX can fail on the market and two secrets without which such a transformation is impossible. First, without a change in the business model and business processes, a complete transition is impossible. Examples, however, are not that scalable. Secondly, we need internal motivation in the company, the desire of an organization to change in order to find its real vocation, and not just change, as a reaction to competition and changes in the market situation. They also launched a new UX Advantage brand conference on UX strategy.
When Change Is Constant - A Spiral UX Design Model
Hang Guo offers a spiral model design process. It is based on the classic spiral design model with adaptation to the specifics of UX. It is not very clear why it is needed and how it differs from flexible methods, but in the piggy bank of concepts it will fit.
Design Collaboration in the Enterprise: Building the Foundation of Brilliance
New book UXPin about collaborative technology work and interaction in the design team.
Features Roadmap Make
Scott Sehlhorst writes about the differences between roadmap and backlog and other documents describing product functionality. He answers the question "why", and not just "what" and "when."
Uninvited Redesigns
The Score Bug: A Case Study For Digital On-Screen.
An interesting solution for sports broadcasts. Juan J. Ramirez offers to expand the block of the match status and show the timeline of the main events in it.
Burger design
Designing urban walks
Anton Repponen and Danil Krivoruchko on the work on the mobile application Urban Walks.
The demo
The Demo opera based on the epoch-making presentation of Douglas "The Mother of All Demos". The thing is dubious, but the fact of being in culture is fun. A little more . It was attended by many of those who worked with Douglas, including his assistant at the presentation of William English .
Trends 2015
The fall of the designer
Eli Schiff, a master of level 80 discourse, writes very interestingly about the role of a designer in an era when, on the one hand, visual style has become ultra-minimalistic, and professional requirements expect a specialist to change focus on working in code. Not all the promises in the article are sensible, but he looks at the problem from a large number of points of view and gives many interesting quotes. All parts of the series:
Why We Need A Haptic Design Language For Wearables
Immersion offers a TouchSense Core design language and platform for wearable devices that will allow them to be used more subtly and intelligently. Notifications are divided into five types - urgently, later, in the usual and background, system, and for each of them describes the principles of good design.
Design for virtual reality
Design for phablets
Car Interfaces
Gridset Responsive Report 2014
Gridsetapp publish the results of a study of modern design. In particular, how responsive design influenced the minds and moods of designers and companies.
Rolling out the mobile-friendly update
Since April 21, the issue of Google on mobile pessimizes sites not adapted for phones.
What is an Object-Oriented Experience Design?
Sharon Carter examines the concept of object-oriented interfaces. This is a convenient way to describe a design that makes it easier to work with possible actions and communicate with developers.
Welcome To The Brave
An interesting trend - large companies sponsor the work of artists and researchers. For some, this is marketing, but, for example, Autodesk considers this a powerful method of user research, when they see the process of how a consumer works in all its details and at all stages.
Web UI Trends Present & Future: The Elegance of Minimalism
Fresh book UXPin about modern trends and minimalism.
Internet of things
Interfaces to the cinema
Web design stack
A collection of tools and services for the web designer. Design, development, production, management, marketing, training courses and job advertisements. There is also a section with cheat sheets and news from the design world. Everything is conveniently cataloged, regularly updated and receives a rating of the authors of the resource.
The Golden Ratio - Design's Biggest Myth
John Brownlee from Fast Co Design launched a discourse on the topic of the golden section. He dug up the source of the myth of his omnipotence in creating harmonious design. He is often credited with including Leonardo da Vinci, although he simply helped a friend draw up a book on this topic. This is one of the clearest examples of post-rationalization and the search for patterns, even where there are none.
In the response article, Darren Crescenzi, included in the list of the most creative people by the version of the Fast Company, severely and extensively criticizes the article . Somewhere with facts, somewhere on an emotional level.
White Space in Web Design (The Power of Nothing)
Another book UXPin, about free space in the design.
Online Courses
Advice from UX Heroes: 9 Golden Nuggets
Rian van der Merwe says that it is necessary to be careful of rushing to extremes and not retraining designers as developers. Otherwise, they finally turn into performers from those who should think about products.
Negligent designers
Advice from UX Heroes: 9 Golden Nuggets
The host of the podcast UX Intern Wesley Noble talks about what he learned during his time of reference.
Weays work
Site Ways We Work collect interviews of designers and other product specialists.
Excerpts from the book Khoi Vinh "How they got there"
Excerpts from the book "Helvetica / Objectified / Urbanized: The Complete Interviews"
UXPeople - Conference on Design, UX, Interfaces and Interaction Design
On June 5, UXPeople 2015 conference will be held in Moscow in Infospace.
UX STRAT 2014, part 1: Overview and Workshop Reviews
Pabini Gabriel-Petit's report on the first day of the UXSTRAT 2014 conference, which was held on September 7-9 in Boulder, Colorado (USA).
Conference Review: UX Strategies Summit 2014, part 2
Pabini Gabriel-Petit's report on the second day of the UX Strategies Summit 2014 conference, held June 10-12 in San Francisco, USA.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the Facebook group of the same name. Thanks to everyone who also publishes links in it, especially Gennady Dragun, Pavel Skripkin, Dmitry Podluzhny, Anton Artyomov, Denis Efremov and Evgeny Sokolov. More and more materials in reviews appear thanks to them. For ease of navigation, I started collecting a list of "branches" in a group with reviews.
A letter arrives once a month.
Patterns and Best Practices
UX 365 - Discovering user experience
Hannah Atkin in his blog collects a visual dictionary of UX-terms.
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Baymard E-Commerce Product List Usability
Excerpts from Baymard Institute’s product listing pages on e-commerce sites:
- That it is useful to do additional sorting options for specific categories . This will not get half-empty results using filtering. True, the proposed solution is on the border of attention, and it also adds a couple of elements at the end of a non-changing list, so it's not a fact that it will work.
- Great article for Smashing Magazine about list filtering tools .
Banish the Hamburger Menu, Adopt Pizza Menus
Nielsen / Norman Group talks about the inefficiency of the burger menu and offers more modern options: pizza menu and sushi menu for the Eastern market. Continuing the theme:
- Luke Wroblewski showed kebab menu .
- Luke Wroblewski collected case studies where hidden navigation worsened engagement and viewing depth .
6 types of digital affordance that impact your UX
Paula Borowska describes 6 types of Affordants.
Mobile User Experience: Limitations and Strengths
Raluca Bidiu from the Nielsen / Norman Group has gathered a good selection of the current state of the strengths and weaknesses of the mobile context of using services. It is interesting, however, that while the company's website has not been adapted for phones yet.
Applications "Jellyfish": how to get some five
Circa offered an unobtrusive way to get app evaluation from users. For Meduza applications, this solution gave a great exhaust.
Understanding the user
ReactiveDesign
A selection of principles for the perception of the speed of the interfaces.
Practical empathy
The second chapter of the book Indy Young. "Empathy brings balance." Continuing the theme:
7 Things Every Designer
Good accessibility note from Jesse Hausler from SalesForce.
The Key to Improving Digital is ...
An overview of research and concepts on how synchronizing communication across all channels helps to convey the meaning of a message accurately. Only 7% of the meaning is conveyed in words, the rest is tonality and body language. The article examines ways to raise this figure in online communication.
Information architecture, conceptual design, content strategy
Can 'User-Experience' Experts Become 'Customer-Experience' Experts?
Some traditional UX agencies are starting to try themselves at CX. Toby Bottorf o transition from User Expereince to Customer Experience.
Content Migration Alone
Kara Pernice from Nielsen / Norman Group provides recommendations on content migration when redesigning intranet sites. It is important to filter unclaimed information and not pull it into the new version.
Design and design of interface screens
Design Universal Windows Platform (UWP) App
Microsoft has published guidelines for the design of universal applications for Windows 10. The general principles of adaptive interfaces of the new platform, as well as templates, are true, for some reason, only for PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator. In the last days of April, the Build 2015 Developer Conference was held, part of the presentations of which were devoted to design:
- Creating accessible applications .
- Work with different input methods in applications .
- Panel discussion: Design for developers .
- Design adaptive interface .
- Creating flexible and scalable interfaces .
- Math scaling interfaces with effective pixels .
Nokia 1100 - The PSD mockups you've always wanted
On April 1, Aerolab Studio prepared the Nokia 1100 template in PSD. After that, the designers at Dribbble were actively involved in the translation of known applications for this format . They also promise the Casio F-91W electronic clock pattern. And a bit more:
New for Material Design
New for Apple Watch
- Application icon template in PSD .
- Article on the creation of Apple Watch with excellent design .
- One day with Apple Watch . Posh review from The Verge.
- A little Jason Zimdars story about creating Basecamp for Apple Watch .
- Nir Eyal uses the Kano model to analyze the functionality of the Apple Watch .
- A good description of the problems faced by developers and designers for the first generation of watches .
- How Epicurious found usage scenarios that it makes sense to implement in hours .
- The Things case shows an interesting prototype device . Well, the decision itself is wildly interesting in terms of patterns.
- An interesting concept of the application for the game Dying Light , when it acts as a second screen. For the first time I see such a use case.
- A selection of cases on the design of well-known applications .
New for Android Wear
- From day to day there will be a major update of the platform, which will greatly enhance its capabilities . Connecting to wi-fi and working without a bundle with the phone, a simplified mode of displaying applications to save energy, hand gestures for working with notifications, and, of course, drawing emoji!
Modern editorial CMS
- The grid from Look at Me was translated into English and released as a separate product . He partly repeats the promo site Arcticle and does not name prices - you need to contact the request directly.
Publishing Tools
- Another beautiful story about The Grid is that it will help designers work with their head, not hands .
- Designer Atavist , similar in spirit to Tilda. A little more about him and his creators .
- Simple Wordpress Theme Designer . Allows you to collect single pages.
- Designer personal sites, which is perfect for other odnostranichnikov .
- In ReadyMag, a classic top-down scrolling appeared , so now you can make websites, not magazines. In addition, the limit on the number of projects in the free version was gone.
Mailing Lists
- A framework for creating responsive emails . Tested in most mail services.
New to Sketch
- What's new in version 3.3 .
- Convenient search for plugins for Sketch .
- A rather detailed script for working with responsive design in Sketch .
- The character set for building interface diagrams and charts .
- A simple way to check localization for different languages in layouts .
New for Pixate
New for InVision
User research and testing, analytics
The three lenses of usability evaluation
David Travis from UserFocus cites three approaches to user research, which show well the connection of methods with the company's overall strategy. A good example of adjusting an extensive toolkit UX-specialist for a specific situation.
The Future of UX Research: Uncovering the True Emotions of Our Users
A review of the current state of psychophysiological research from Andrew Schall.
Do You Notice Your Design Elements? 3 Ways to Find Out
Jeff Sauro describes three ways to find out that users meaningfully saw something in your design - polls, eye-tracking and observations. Each of them has its own reservations, because a person’s gaze may fall on an element unconsciously.
How to Measure Your Reliability of Your Methods and Metrics
Jeff Sauro offers four ways to verify the reliability of user research methods and metrics. Comparison of the opinions of different experts, repeated surveys, the variability of the order and set of questions, the division of respondents into several samples.
A Guide to User Testing
A quick reference to the types of usability testing methods by Jerry Cao. Continuation and full version of the reference book describing more than 30 testing methods in the book from UXPin.
User polls
- 10 main problems of user surveys that affect the quality of the data .
- Memo Gabriel Biller and Lada Gorlenko on conducting cheap user surveys . What to do in a situation of probably poor quality of the respondents.
No More Pogo Sticking: Protect Users from Wasted Clicks
Aurora Bedford on how to use analytics in order to identify cases of pogo sticking - when users search for information, go to the page and immediately come back, after finding what they expected.
Wargaming executives on researching player behavior in World of Tanks and other games
How does the analytics team at Wargaming. On tasks, audience, tools, approaches. Continuing the theme:
3 Reasons Why Crowdsourcing Fails
Craig Tomlin identified the three main problems of user research using surveys on the site. Non-representative sampling, people's words are at odds with their behavior, incorrect questions.
Visual programming and browser design
An In-Depth Overview Of The Living Style Guide Tools
Robert Kharitonov made a good review of tools for maintaining live guidelines on Smashing Magazine. It's great that they are divided into classes of "maturity" and opportunities. Continuing the theme:
New scripts
- Motion Blur by SVG .
- How cheap to make a horizontal scroll in mobile on CSS, where one of the elements goes beyond the bounds of the screen .
- The list of news in the form of tiles with an animated opening of the full text .
- Circular menu generator .
- Generator patterns of triangles . The trend of Low Poly at the beginning of last year is now quite easy to repeat.
- Someone got a question about centering in CSS. Special service generating solutions for different types of centering .
Cutting mobile design
- The Resonator tool for mobile designers and design integrators has been greatly updated . 9.PNG are now supported.
Work with SVG
Work with color
- Another way to CSS animations are gradients .
- Script for applying themes to any parts of the interface .
Layer overlay effects in modern browsers
- An overview of the features of CSS filters from Mahdi Dibaiee .
- A simple analysis with the ability to play with the parameters from Robin Rendle .
New to Quartz Composer
Work with CSS animation
Work with Flexbox
- Vox Media team about the Gliss mechanism for adaptability of articles, built on constraints in the spirit of Grid Style Sheets .
- 6 common problems in CSS, because of which the grid breaks .
- Enough detailed visual crib on the properties of Flexbox from Dimitar Stojanov .
Metrics and ROI
Can Good Design Be Measured?
An offshoot of the Pamela Pavliscak series on design measurement.
Management of interface projects, processes and teams
Yuri Vetrov - From Design Team to Design Culture
My presentation from the CodeFest 2015 conference on how to move from building a design team to building a design culture. This is the fourth part in the series about the UX-strategy - by the summer it will appear in the form of an extended article. The third, by the way, is now being read by UXMatters.
Five or seven years ago, everyone was talking about the right processes, but now they are no longer enough - this is rather a hygienic requirement and a guideline. They help out common values, thanks to which the whole company can become a design team. This presentation is about building a design culture, which depends on three components - the team, the leaders and a set of basic procedures. Some of the topics did not have time to open in this format, but for the article the picture will be more holistic. Continuing the theme:
- James Kalbach offers a look at the model of the jazz group as a model for modern design teams . The apparent ease of improvisation arises due to a common language, attention to other team members and the acceptance of uncertainty. The speech itself, however, speaks of this in a not too clear narrowly specialized language.
- As a service, Hudl uses an interesting teamwork model proposed by Spotify several years ago . In it, the company is divided into four sections - squads, tribes, divisions and guilds. This allows you to establish effective interaction in the most common situations, while maintaining the structure more or less flexible.
- As a design agency, Prodigi reformatted the company's structure into cross-functional teams . Essentially, grocery teams.
- Dave Gray is developing the Culture Mapping technique as a way of describing copro-culture . His own working draft guide for Culture Mapping .
Git Large File Storage
GitHub has opened up the ability to track the versioning of large files, including media and graphics. This is an explicit invitation for designers to connect to one of the most popular collaboration tools. Announcement with a little explanation . Continuing the theme:
- The creators of the Pics.io service for storing and sharing photos for professional photographers have adapted it for versioning design . It works in conjunction with Google Drive.
4 Things Strategists Can Learn From UX Designers
At SXSW, Google conducted a panel dedicated to the collaboration between UX designers and product strategists. Under the link short squeeze from it.
Resist the redesign
Alina Senderzon from ZURB writes about redesign, at least making changes to the product. One of the reasons for this desire is the gradual accumulation of differences in products, which is often expressed in the difference in buttons. It also manifested itself in our team, although the reasons are not only in designers - only a technological solution can solve this problem once and for all. Continuing the theme:
- And another article by Alina Senderzon about redesign as a method of gradual unification . She gives an example of working on mailing letters when they were able to come to a simple and easy solution after living with the first approach.
How To Become A UX Leader
Robert Hoekman Jr also writes about what the UX leader should do.
Becoming Design-Infused: 2 Necessary Mutations to Organizational DNA
Many companies are trying to become more design-oriented, but few of them get it really. Jared Spool on why sometimes a product with a perfect UX can fail on the market and two secrets without which such a transformation is impossible. First, without a change in the business model and business processes, a complete transition is impossible. Examples, however, are not that scalable. Secondly, we need internal motivation in the company, the desire of an organization to change in order to find its real vocation, and not just change, as a reaction to competition and changes in the market situation. They also launched a new UX Advantage brand conference on UX strategy.
When Change Is Constant - A Spiral UX Design Model
Hang Guo offers a spiral model design process. It is based on the classic spiral design model with adaptation to the specifics of UX. It is not very clear why it is needed and how it differs from flexible methods, but in the piggy bank of concepts it will fit.
Design Collaboration in the Enterprise: Building the Foundation of Brilliance
New book UXPin about collaborative technology work and interaction in the design team.
Product management and analytics
Features Roadmap Make
Scott Sehlhorst writes about the differences between roadmap and backlog and other documents describing product functionality. He answers the question "why", and not just "what" and "when."
Cases
Uninvited Redesigns
The Score Bug: A Case Study For Digital On-Screen.
An interesting solution for sports broadcasts. Juan J. Ramirez offers to expand the block of the match status and show the timeline of the main events in it.
Burger design
- About redesign Meduza, which professes similar principles . Sidebars are called "lines", they are also easy to move around the page and turn on / off.
Designing urban walks
Anton Repponen and Danil Krivoruchko on the work on the mobile application Urban Walks.
Story
The demo
The Demo opera based on the epoch-making presentation of Douglas "The Mother of All Demos". The thing is dubious, but the fact of being in culture is fun. A little more . It was attended by many of those who worked with Douglas, including his assistant at the presentation of William English .
Trends
Trends 2015
- A group of famous designers about the trends of this year and the near future . Not everything is fresh, but there are many new thoughts.
- Trendwatching's great overview of interfaces with no visible interface . Manage gestures, voice, look.
The fall of the designer
Eli Schiff, a master of level 80 discourse, writes very interestingly about the role of a designer in an era when, on the one hand, visual style has become ultra-minimalistic, and professional requirements expect a specialist to change focus on working in code. Not all the promises in the article are sensible, but he looks at the problem from a large number of points of view and gives many interesting quotes. All parts of the series:
- The first part is a little more controversial.
- The third part is about followers of responsive design, not thinking about its meaning.
- The fourth part , very sensible. On the influence of flat design on the value of specialists.
- The fifth part is about marginalizing UX.
Why We Need A Haptic Design Language For Wearables
Immersion offers a TouchSense Core design language and platform for wearable devices that will allow them to be used more subtly and intelligently. Notifications are divided into five types - urgently, later, in the usual and background, system, and for each of them describes the principles of good design.
Design for virtual reality
- Google launched Cardboard VR virtual reality support program . Virtual reality applications run on a smartphone inserted into glasses made, for example, from a cardboard box.
- Google Cardboard Design Guide (for now there’s not much information).
- Illustrated introduction to the design for VR by Matt Sundstrom and translation of the article into Russian .
Design for phablets
- The new version of the standard player in iOS8 is trying to solve many of the problems of large screens . Moving a significant number of controls down, using the swipe to switch between the main sections like in WinPhone.
- Luke Wroblewski offers to set the framework for the current understanding of mobile design . 4-5,5 ", portrait orientation, one-handed control.
Car Interfaces
- Ferrari car dealership solution that allows you to customize your car using augmented reality .
- Experimental augmented reality glasses from Mini, which will be bundled with the machine . Interestingly, the decision at the junction of the gadget and accessory in the spirit of the brand. A little more about them .
Gridset Responsive Report 2014
Gridsetapp publish the results of a study of modern design. In particular, how responsive design influenced the minds and moods of designers and companies.
Rolling out the mobile-friendly update
Since April 21, the issue of Google on mobile pessimizes sites not adapted for phones.
What is an Object-Oriented Experience Design?
Sharon Carter examines the concept of object-oriented interfaces. This is a convenient way to describe a design that makes it easier to work with possible actions and communicate with developers.
Welcome To The Brave
An interesting trend - large companies sponsor the work of artists and researchers. For some, this is marketing, but, for example, Autodesk considers this a powerful method of user research, when they see the process of how a consumer works in all its details and at all stages.
Web UI Trends Present & Future: The Elegance of Minimalism
Fresh book UXPin about modern trends and minimalism.
Internet of things
- Interesting reflections Ted McCarthy on how the design process has changed from physical objects to software interfaces, and how it can change in the era of the Internet of things . The access to user analytics is simplified, the reaction time of the product team is reduced.
Interfaces to the cinema
- Jake Sargeant, the author of interfaces from Tron and Oblivion, made a real data analysis interface for a security company ProtectWise . An interesting example of the penetration of concepts into real life.
- About interfaces from the Black Mirror series .
For general and professional development
Web design stack
A collection of tools and services for the web designer. Design, development, production, management, marketing, training courses and job advertisements. There is also a section with cheat sheets and news from the design world. Everything is conveniently cataloged, regularly updated and receives a rating of the authors of the resource.
The Golden Ratio - Design's Biggest Myth
John Brownlee from Fast Co Design launched a discourse on the topic of the golden section. He dug up the source of the myth of his omnipotence in creating harmonious design. He is often credited with including Leonardo da Vinci, although he simply helped a friend draw up a book on this topic. This is one of the clearest examples of post-rationalization and the search for patterns, even where there are none.
In the response article, Darren Crescenzi, included in the list of the most creative people by the version of the Fast Company, severely and extensively criticizes the article . Somewhere with facts, somewhere on an emotional level.
White Space in Web Design (The Power of Nothing)
Another book UXPin, about free space in the design.
Online Courses
- Video courses for designers UXTree .
- Course on accessibility , paid ($ 199).
- Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences launches a free 6-week course on prototyping interaction at Iversity .
Advice from UX Heroes: 9 Golden Nuggets
Rian van der Merwe says that it is necessary to be careful of rushing to extremes and not retraining designers as developers. Otherwise, they finally turn into performers from those who should think about products.
Negligent designers
Advice from UX Heroes: 9 Golden Nuggets
The host of the podcast UX Intern Wesley Noble talks about what he learned during his time of reference.
People and companies in the industry
Weays work
Site Ways We Work collect interviews of designers and other product specialists.
Excerpts from the book Khoi Vinh "How they got there"
Excerpts from the book "Helvetica / Objectified / Urbanized: The Complete Interviews"
Conference proceedings
UXPeople - Conference on Design, UX, Interfaces and Interaction Design
On June 5, UXPeople 2015 conference will be held in Moscow in Infospace.
UX STRAT 2014, part 1: Overview and Workshop Reviews
Pabini Gabriel-Petit's report on the first day of the UXSTRAT 2014 conference, which was held on September 7-9 in Boulder, Colorado (USA).
Conference Review: UX Strategies Summit 2014, part 2
Pabini Gabriel-Petit's report on the second day of the UX Strategies Summit 2014 conference, held June 10-12 in San Francisco, USA.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the Facebook group of the same name. Thanks to everyone who also publishes links in it, especially Gennady Dragun, Pavel Skripkin, Dmitry Podluzhny, Anton Artyomov, Denis Efremov and Evgeny Sokolov. More and more materials in reviews appear thanks to them. For ease of navigation, I started collecting a list of "branches" in a group with reviews.
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