Research provides the inspiration, guidance, and validation we need to design great products. From the personal (like interviewing users) to the analytical (like metrics) there’s a continuum of research skills that are essential for design teams. The most effective companies integrate this discipline into their culture and make research a habit.
This is our guide to design research, featuring Design Staff articles and other posts we think are important and influential.
A friend’s Facebook status caught my eye the other day. He wrote, “UX is a fancy word for common sense.” I couldn’t disagree more.
This past January, I experienced one of the biggest personal and professional upheavals of my life: I packed up my bags, quit my role as partner and designer at a graphic design practice, said farewell to family and friends, and moved across the Atlantic to London, England.
Here it is — my complete iOS, Android and Mac app design workflow, starting from the first time you open Photoshop, to the app release and beyond. Now seemed like a good time to document how I’ve been working, because my workflow is about to drastically change again, with the release of Skala.
Google used to divine good design through data. Fred Gilbert, the lead designer of Google's social products, says that when he joined the company in 2006, as an intern, and again in 2007, as a designer for Google Maps, "You had to pass tech interviews and be a good front-end coder to be a designer at Google."
Research provides the inspiration, guidance, and validation we need to design great products. From the personal (like interviewing users) to the analytical (like metrics) there’s a continuum of research skills that are essential for design teams. The most effective companies integrate this discipline into their culture and make research a habit.
This is our guide to design research, featuring Design Staff articles and other posts we think are important and influential.
A friend’s Facebook status caught my eye the other day. He wrote, “UX is a fancy word for common sense.” I couldn’t disagree more.
Este es el nuevo logo de Microsoft. ¿Cómo le caería este estilo a otros logos? Para los que no han leído la noticia: Si, Microsoft cambia oficialmente de logo a tiempo para lanzar Windows 8. Se nota que alguien perdió su licencia de Photoshop y prefirió usar Paint para rediseñar el logo en vez de bajarse una copia pirata de internet.
In this post we are posting appealing and Special Olympics Logo Designs. Just look at how the logo designs style in Olympic logo designs have progressed over time. More than 100 years growth, Olympic has turn out to be a formal procedure for the whole human being in the name of harmony, companionship and delight, and Olympics logo designs are a crucial fraction of this huge event.
O objetivo do projeto da artista e fotógrafa brasileira Angélica Dass é catalogar todas as tonalidades de pele que existem. Humanae é um inventário cromático, um projeto que reflete sobre as cores além das fronteiras de nossos códigos, usando como referência o sistema PANTONE®, principal sistema de classificação de cores, seguin...
Metro Designs - Style Development The word Metro is getting tossed around a lot in the web design and development community. This can obviously be attributed to Microsoft's talk about the new Windows 8 operating system and its Metro interface, but that leads to some false sense of what a Metro design is.