User Experience.UX Design

In this article I'd like to tell you some of my insights about designing using grids, which is crucial for good design. In print and press all the information (graphics and text) have some logical layout, proper spacing, and all of that is formed into neat columns. While designing a website same rules apply and we have to remember to make our content easy to read and accessible for the users. That's where grids come to play - they help to make information look well organized and clean. First of all we should acknowledge how the websites are const... Read Full Designing & Thinking with Grids Article »

Art vs. Design, Form and Function

Good design can seem subjective. Most design award contests are expert-judged, and the judging criteria are seldom formally defined or revealed. This may afford judges lots of latitude in their scoring, but there is a cost to the rest of us. This approach can leave untrained people thinking design quality is subjective; merely personal taste. And though it can sometimes be, it certainly need not be. So let's make a distinction, for baseline clarity. One of the main distinctions between design ... Read Full Good Design Article »

Today, Adaptive Path's Aurora hit the bits (previously, airwaves). Most likely you've already seen the video. Though Apple and others have been testing the 3-D GUIs waters form some time now, with the "genie" icons rising when we "run" the My first impression recalled the same images that others recalled who I've talked with about it: Adaptive Path’s Aurora Article »

In this second installment of Googleyness and Yahoo! we compare the services that, you might say, keep the lights on; search engine marketing (SEM), to assess for ourselves which is "Googleyer", according to Google's own definition of Googleyness.

First, The Contender

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Yes, Google is very Googley. As Yahoo! is, well, Yahoo-ey, I suppose. But is Yahoo! actually Googley-er than Google itself? Using a simple UX score card, let's see. How well, then, does Google measure up against its own UX... Read Full Googleyness and Yahoo! Article »