Often designers design stuff (products/services/interfaces etc.): to fit user personas, to solve problems, to make it beautiful etc. but don't often consider the how it psychologically interfaces with the user. Such user experience design draws heavily from human psychological behaviors that are a result
James Higgs writes an interesting article about the inconsistencies of Apple's aesthetic. In one corner you have Apple's sublime and minimal industrial design where every corner or radii has been considered.
These devices have become increasingly simple and pared down, even as the power contained
Dmitry Fadeyev on Google's decision to remove the “http://” portion of the URL in Chrome’s address bar. But see, this is one of those things that just doesn’t matter. Design isn’t about cutting waste—that’s too easy. Waste is something that has no value, so identifying and
Dylan Tweney, a senior editor at Wired.com, wrote on The Atlantic:
The problem with a touch screen interface is that your finger tends to block the GUI (graphic user interface) object you are engaging. On small screens with just a single finger (or digit) it is not that big of a deal. However on
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This little chart was inspired by my Interaction Design colleagues. If you come from
