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UI Design in Hacker News

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:43:09 +0000

It seems a week doesn’t get by without a post or two in Hacker News about GUI design or graphic design, often entitled something like “Design for Hackers” or “Design for Developers”. The trouble with all these posts is that they are trying to shortcut the methodology of design by various hacks, even something as lengthy as read 5 books is by-in-large a hack. There is no substitute for practise, for looking and appreciating your world in a different way (this can be self-taught, I will discuss more below) and for in-depth thinking about what either comes down to communication or feedback problems.

WANT – Oliver Jeffers Prints

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:00:44 +0000

Oliver Jeffers Print: “” (Via swissmiss.)

A sneak peek at Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland film

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:01:02 +0000

This just looks excellent (and I have shamelessly lifted this from another RSS feed). A sneak peek at Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland film: “ “ (Via Alpha Mummy – Times Online – WBLG.)

Nice things for the home

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:15:03 +0000

Been buying things for the apartment recently, not least some lovely Iittala bowls: This one is the 2,8L salad bowl, part of the Taika design by Klaus Haapaniemi. Perfect summer design for summer salads. Kristin also picked up some bowls from a local potter in Varmland.

Hilarious look at Adobe’s UI

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:58:46 +0000

So what’s wrong with Adobe’s UI: Well this is a very funny tumbl log of plenty of comments of things that could be done better: [http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/ ]1 Things that particularly standout are issues with there cross-platform UI. Although praised by many as a good example, it just shows that some of the finer details are missed. Via UIEye.

UI design in the open

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:42:00 +0000

This is just great: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/01/redesigning-a-u.html A summary of the post that basically Bug Labs has hired IDEO to redesign their hardware user interface for BUGbase and to do it in the open. Updates on the design process can be sees at: Bug Blog, Bug Community, and the IDEO blog.

InspireUX

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:38:34 +0000

Words in inspire user experience designers: http://www.inspireux.com/. Nice list of quotes, one to add to the news reader that’s for sure. I particularly agree with: “In design, space is not the problem. Attention is.” “Making assumptions about our users leads us to design for ourselves” “The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem”

Movie Posters with brand integration

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:38:31 +0000

Movie Posters with brand integration Alternate movie posters about film brand integration. These are just great.

Product redesign, first steps in a process

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:27:17 +0000

So we have started on a major product redesign at work and things are going well. The product in question is the flagship product from our Swedish office, and the launch point and central resource for the many others here. Starting a redesign is no simple process, after all the decision to do so usually comes from several sources not just the need to do it, but justifiable business reasoning.

Creating workflow diagrams

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:22:01 +0000

I haven’t seen any good examples recently of workflow diagrams, at least not more technical ones based around software, services and workflow. Creating a diagram like this its always nice to see other examples of how people have approached the problem but in this scenario I have yet to see anything. Even Edward Tufte came short on this, though the diagrams and illustrations he provides examples for are excellent. So this is what I came up with to illustrate a workflow with our software in a newsroom environment.

Decorating.

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:39:20 +0000

So now we have moved in the decorating is in full swing. There has been lots that we have done, but much still to do. K and I have been talking about building a floating wall for the living room, I think that needs some more thought but first off its the easy things like curtains. So last night we went to Marimekko and chose a design by Erja Hirvi called Lumimarja.

Data visualisation / visualization

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:51:32 +0000

This is a blog page to some data visualisation places for future reference:

http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/2008/04/16/data-visualisation-blogs-you-might-not-know-about/

I have also cut+pasted them in to the extended entry in case the blog goes down.

Delivery

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:08:26 +0000

I am loving this short movie entitled “Delivery” by Till Nowak over at Framebox. Check it out: http://www.delivery.framebox.de/ Its worth the download of the Divx version

Spike Jonze Adidas Ad

Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:33:45 +0000

Recent posts have been alittle dry and techie recently so here is something a bit more creative, a new Spike Jonze Adidas Ad ad – very beautiful it is too. http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1586/

Interview with FedEx logo designer

Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:18:42 +0000

Really interesting interview with Lindon Leader; the designer of the FedEx logo, IMHO one of the best logo designs yet, and one that continues to cause much debate over the infamous hidden arrow.

Playstation 2 Ad by Ben Dawkins

Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:06:40 +0000

Another awesome clip put together by Ben Dawkins http://www.bendawkins.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ps2_stork.html

The Branding of Polaroid

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:07:57 +0000

This is a really nice link that was posted up on humhum the other day, and adds to the other branding sites that I have put the other day: http://blog.timc3.com/item.php?entry=195 http://giam.typepad.com/the_branding_of_polaroid_/

shhh…

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:50:01 +0000

Well yesterday was my Birthday and amoung other things we went to see shhh… at the V&A yesterday, and it was really quite good. Its an exploritive of music composed by various musicians with varying degrees of success. Of the highlights was Roots Manuva and a long time favourite of mine, Cornelius. Just walking around looking at the exhibits with music gave quite a different feel to the whole museum and I really recommend that even if you didn’t get to see this, take an iPod around and try and make your own soundtrack – the results are outstanding and sometimes felt like I was involved within a movie

Branding sites

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:20:46 +0000

Just a couple of branding sites that have been posted on the renascentfused board that I thought would be very useful for future reference. http://www.ge.com/brand/design_library http://www.cidoc.net/ http://users.ncrvnet.nl/mstol/57.htm I am particularly impressed with a corporate like General Electric putting their brand tools on a very public part of their site.

Bogdan

Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:12:01 +0000

I said I awhile ago that I was going to be posting some sweet motion work, and things have been a bit busy, so I have been abit remiss in doing so, but here to make up for that is a link – http://www.bendawkins.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bogdan_qt.html – there you go, to a nice little motion piece.