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We all want beautiful things. A beautiful graphic user interface is no exception. But how do you define beauty? Pretty colors? Balanced composition? Elegant typography? Appealing trimmings? Grid fidelity?
Without diminishing those things, my feeling is that, when it comes to GUIs, the most beautiful are the ones you don't notice. The beautiful GUI is so useful, so understandable, so usable that...
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Unlike most websites, which conceptually are typically places for people to consume information, and perhaps share back thoughts or content for others to consume — "Websites are conversations" — the Resolving Door project embodied the user experience characteristics of a web application. That is, it's a website in that it has a URL and can be accessed in a browser, but its purpose is to be a tool to help the user do something rather specific.
In this case, the site's purpose is to provide the means for University of Colorado students to ask questions and post answers.
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Described succinctly by Tad Crawford in AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design, the design brief “digs deep into a project and identifies the main factors that drive the entire creative strategy.”
Indeed, a well-crafted brief is invaluable for most any sizeable design project. It functions like a compass, allowing client and design team to ascertain periodically that north is still north,...
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Although we've come a long way from the just-build-something-and-they-will-come approach that characterized the early days of web development, it nonetheless remains important to remind (and sometimes convince) clients and decision-makers about the importance of user-centric design in creating truly compelling websites.
credit:Kaptain Kobold
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Customers don't want a 1/4-inch drill; they want a 1/4-inch hole.
So said Ted Levitt and his article, "Marketing Myopia," stands as a classic.
In my own experience at Hewlett-Packard Medical Electronics, our engineers were positively charmed by their inventions, but what the savvier marketing folks understood was that the patient's vital signs were not the central reason the equipment was...
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