Category: Design
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What the Internet of Things means for Interaction Design
As someone who has spent most of my career designing and building websites, I tend to think of interaction design within the realm of explicit interactions.
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Choose boring technology
https://boringtechnology.club/ Slightly long presentation, but I like it. There are so many cool new tools around today, and although I wouldn’t entirely dismiss trying new ones, there is profound wisdom in the message here: Do you need new tech, or do you just need to keep your processes and software in better shape? Keep your…
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A short tale about online banking service design
Once upon a time, you went to your branch and ATMs to manage your affairs. You had your bank card, you had you, you had the person behind the counter, and they would do most of the work for you.
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RSS
I made a conscious decision to pretty much stay off twitter earlier this year. It is a terrible time-suck, it is a firehose of all kinds of things that will rob you of your sanity and faith in humankind. It also did not help my state of anxiety at the time.
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UX Designer wanted
Was reading this article about UX Designers in Grafia (a Finnish Graphic Design magazine), and I had to laugh at this because so far in my experience it rings really true. The definition and reality of what your role as a UX Designer can vary a great deal.
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Joe Pesci
The best thing in “The Irishman” was, without a doubt, the frames worn by Joe Pesci. So damn stylish.
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Notifications
Every time I go into macOS settings, I think I have a notification about notifications. In general that little red dot has become a horrible, ubiquitous distraction.
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Working in digital
Do you remember when people first started talking about this new kind of industry you could get into: ‘New Media’, ‘Digital’, ‘Web Design’? I do!
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ToDo Hack
Here’s my todo/pm hack – I use the stickies app on MacOS to list my current projects or tasks, and the length indicates the size or how much is left. Just for approximation.
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Are you Agile?
I think that most companies that say they practice Agile are kidding themselves.
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The Great Design Discourse
The digital design and UX design professions seem to be having a great moment of introspection lately, some of it raising important discussion, whilst a lot of it descends into pedantic shouting on social media.
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The UX is in the bag
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Computers and HTML
Growing up I got into computers around the age of 7. I started with a ZX Spectrum +, then a +2, then an Atari ST.
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Designing VUIs
Chatbots are taking over! GUIs and NUIs are so last year! Artificial Intelligence is so darn good and freely available that you can just speak and make it so.
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How to write great content for your audience
Good writing on the web takes commitment and skill. It’s the difference between a website with a great user experience and a mediocre one, yet we still struggle to give it the same importance as we do to web design and build.