Tag Archives: User interface

This Is Responsive: a great resource site about responsive design!

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How Much Has The Web Really Changed?

Two years ago, responsive was the near future (I remember this time very well, because I had been asked to lead the early design direction of a very large global website in the consumer electronic industry). The whole team made the decision to go responsive, and honestly we never regret it. Today, responsive is the emerging standard of design principle. 

As a Design / UX manager it forces you to think in a new way (revise all you knew about screen layout and interaction model), and you learn a lot on Content and API framework.

Thanks to Brad Frost you don’t have to go the hard way. Check his excellent resource site, I wish I had it two years ago.

This Is Responsive, the excellent resource about responsive design by Brad Frost.

Facebook revisited in a new interface concept

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Yes, Facebook could (and should) improve their interface. Fred Nerby from Brisbane, Australia, has done a great job in this conceptual showcase.

 

How much is a UX professional worth?

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1. Clicktale UX salary survey (worldwide but US/UK biaised)

UX Salary Survey Cover Secrets of a Successful UX Career

> Quick summary here
> Download the survey here (free but registration needed)

 

2. US market salary calculator

Based on the 2011 salary survey from the Usability Professionals Association.

> Access the calculator here

A cynical dictionary to User Experience

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This little dictionary is cynical, and hilarious, especially if you have been in user-centered design for a while. And it’s an excellent starter for discussing the place of UX in your organisation. Thanks Dean Schuster.

Debunking User Experience Handout (PDF)

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Your complete gesture guide

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For designers and touch users, here comes a great Touch gesture guide, courtesy of interaction designer LukeW. Thanks  for sharing.
Download here

Touch Gesture Reference Guide

 

The brand new Windows 8 metro interface

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Here comes a good walkthrough of the pre-release version of Windows 8, if you have missed it. It’s an interesting example of how difficult it is to support both Touch and Pointer interaction mode on the same UI platform.

The Future of dating (in augmented reality)

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This a very clever student project about a guy who is dating a girl, somewhere in a near future. It doesn’t only encompass dating, but also “gamification”, virtual reality and the behavioral changes led by such technologies.

Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo.

The room interface of the future

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The artefacts in our rooms are increasingly digital and networked. Here is good concept for how a flexible and natural interface could be designed for interacting with all your hardware, software and services.

The room is first scanned by a pattern-recognition camera (similar to Microsoft Kinect) and the image is projected on a coffee table. Since the camera can both track your fingers, their movement and their target, you become able to interact with your networked hardware directly from the table. Smart and much cheaper than the original Microsoft Surface approach below.