On the HFI site Susan Weinschenk is doing a top 100 things you should know about humans. Her first item is Inattention Blindness. This stuff is so cool. I love the human brain. You can be asked to focus on one thing and in the process you ignore what seems to be the irrelvant items.… Continue reading Inattention Blindness
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Is UX becoming a commodity?
Is UX becoming a commodity? With an emphatic NO!! I soooo disagree with Kem’s assertion, I even left a nice comment. Kem Kramer on Johnny Holland declared: “After 10 years in the field, I woke up one day to realise that my service as a UX practitioner had become a commodity. Usability had become the… Continue reading Is UX becoming a commodity?
Case Made for Compelling Visual Design
As a person who approaches design from the cognitive science and human factors angle, I think I resemble this quote. “User interface experts are often suspicious of the role of visual aesthetics in user interfaces—and of designers who insist that graphic emotive impact and careful attention to a site’s visual framework really contribute to measurable… Continue reading Case Made for Compelling Visual Design
Sketching as Communication
Johnny Holland has an article on Sketching as Communication. The video is a bit long but the first half is worth listening to. Mark Baskinger talks about sketching in industrial design and interaction design. He points out why interaction designers should work on their sketching skills.
Nice use of Black
I liked the use of black in this page. The background is almost black. The font oscillates in transparency as it moves across and up or down the page. The page is split by completely black headers. I like it. http://konigi.com/interface/webmynd-header-and-footer