Update Aug. 19, 2010: for those of you that are interested we found a great plethora of additional Wireframe Tools that can be found by following this Wireframing Tools Twitter list. We also would recommend a general UX information Twitter list.
For today’s Friday 5 we thought it would be nice to provide some link-love to …
How many of you truly understand the proper steps in a web site mock-up? I bet many of you are already thinking of wireframes, grey boxing, sketching, and probably storyboarding. However, how many of you have truly come to love a custom system that you employ?
A truly great web site mock-up should not only be enjoyable to create but it should culminate into a beautiful / usable work of art for your client. Don’t get weighed down by the conformist proxies of our trade. Break the norm and develop your own process by which a web site is created. I have my own process which I’ll discuss with you below and I call sketchedbox-comp-storyframing-grey-modeling.
In this post I will attempt to describe some best practices to follow when designing web navigation.
During my weekly dose of reading I stumbled across a very interesting concept involving web navigation. At the moment I happened to be reading “Designing the Moment Web Interface Design Concepts in Action.” The particular passage that caught my …
A new option on Amazon.com allows consumers to choose how some items are packaged before they are shipped. Genius.
Anyone who’s ever bought anything, from toys to electronics, has experienced “wrap rage” (ie, ‘How the heck are you supposed to open this without slicing off a finger ?!’). Those plastic-coated wire thingies poking out of mysterious, …
When designing websites for the 21st century you will want to consider using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is helping front end developers present users with more visually stunning sites than use to be possible when tables (*gasp*) were used for web layouts. The true beauty of CSS however lies in the capability of having clear, modular, and concise code. The purpose of this post is to dive into CSS by first resetting and then setting new base styles in which to develop with.
Intuitive design is something that all of us should strive for everyday within our creative workplace. Intuitive design is the direct combination of two terms. (Of which I am sure that we’re all very familiar, but for those that are not…)
intuitive:
capable of being perceived or known by intuition
intuition on dictionary.com
design:
organization or structure of formal elements …
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