Infographics: My Twitter Chart
Visual.ly is a fantastic site for infographics and has a handy “Twitter Visualizer” that creates a personalized infographic based upon what you tweet. I found this cute, and posted mine below…
Beautiful Print Designs, On the Web
I’ve been noticing a trend lately that I’m really loving. Graphically appealing print-style page designs on the web. With advancements in web standards, CSS3, HTML5, and Typekit, web designers have been able to do more than ever when creating appealing…
Setting Expectations for Change
I have been a member of meetup.com for quite a few years now, and they have been making a lot of changes. Do I like all of them? No. However, I still admire them for the way they are handling…
5 Steps for Facilitating a Remote Usability Test
This post breaks down facilitating a remote usability test in 5 steps: Pre-Planning, Study Setup, Pre-Study Survey, The Study and Completing the Study. You’ll probably notice that most of the steps are very similar to an on-location usability test, but…
Designing for Android
I’m currently working on an Android app design, and have found a number of resources that have proved to be very valuable. Because Android is a open platform, it can be very hard to find a good set of standards,…
Got a slow Android Phone? Reset it.
I have had the original Droid for almost 2 years now running Android. I like it, but it’s been driving me crazy lately. Apps are constantly hanging, the screen freezes, things crash. Today it finally hit me, maybe I should reset the…
Make the system do the work, not the user.
One of the benefits of working in software design is the fact that software is capable of extremely complex algorithms in a matter of milliseconds. System are smart. I could ask you to tell me what 876,543/3.7 is and it would…
Makes you want to stand.
Fantastic infographic from MedicalBillingandCoding.org:
YouTube – Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces
Posted on Core77, I found this apartment to be such an inspiration in so many ways. I was first taken back by the designers creativity in taking on the challenge of this space at all. The apartment dubbed Christian House after…
UXLx Videos!
Yay, UX Libson (UXLX) started posting their videos. These are from a UX conference I really wanted to attend, but it just wasn’t in the budget this year. I can’t wait to catch up and start watching what I missed! uxlx.23video.com.