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Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed

Posted by Helge Fredheim on March 15, 2011 · Comments Off

A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. User experience is a very blurry concept. Consequently, many people use the term incorrectly. Furthermore, many designers seem to have a firm (and often unrealistic) belief in how they can [...]

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Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching

Posted by Dirk Metzmacher on March 9, 2011 · Comments Off

When it comes to designing in Photoshop, there is a myriad of ways one could use to achieve a certain result, especially when it comes to photo retouching. Designers use technique they are most confident as well as comfortable with, which is great because it’s always useful to peek into the workflow of our colleagues and learn new design approaches. We have had articles on cloning, [...]

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Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching

Posted by Dirk Metzmacher on March 9, 2011 · Comments Off

When it comes to designing in Photoshop, there is a myriad of ways one could use to achieve a certain result, especially when it comes to photo retouching. Designers use technique they are most confident as well as comfortable with, which is great because it’s always useful to peek into the workflow of our colleagues and learn new design approaches. We have had articles on cloning, [...]

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Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business

Posted by Jeff Gothelf on March 7, 2011 · Comments Off

User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content inventories, taxonomies, mockups and the ever-sacred specifications document (aka “The Spec”) helped define the practice in its infancy. These deliverables crystallized the value that the UX [...]

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Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business

Posted by Jeff Gothelf on March 7, 2011 · Comments Off

User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content inventories, taxonomies, mockups and the ever-sacred specifications document (aka “The Spec”) helped define the practice in its infancy. These deliverables crystallized the value that the UX [...]

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Designing For Start-Ups: How To Deliver The Message Across

Posted by Andrew Maier on February 24, 2011 · Comments Off

Start-up organizations provide an extraordinary example of chaos organized into manageable chunks. Perhaps more than anyone else, the individuals who comprise a start-up team are required to understand their team’s goals across a variety of disciplines — research, marketing, design, development, architecture, etc. — as well as their own responsibility to move the company’s [...]

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Examining The Design Process: Clichés and Idea Generation

Posted by Dan Mayer on February 21, 2011 · Comments Off

Where do good ideas come from? It’s a question that matters a great deal to designers, yet seems to be curiously discounted in the common perception of graphic design. Any time I talk with, say, an uncle at Thanksgiving about my work, I’m reminded that, in most people’s minds, the job of being a designer is mainly a matter of learning a set of computer applications — programs [...]

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Five and a Half Habits of Highly Effective Designers

Posted by Nishant Kothary on February 18, 2011 · Comments Off

We have theories about everything: why the sky is blue, why apples fall, why bees buzz (and do other unmentionable things), why my boss said a certain thing, why that girl in the restaurant looked at me, why didn’t that girl in the restaurant look at me…. We’re wired to theorize. Theories make us feel secure. We can wrap our heads around them and explain them with little diagrams [...]

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Useful Typography Tips For Adobe Illustrator

Posted by Tara Hornor on February 15, 2011 · Comments Off

Typography is not only an all-important aspect of design, it is also an art form in and of itself. Choosing the right font, the perfect spacing and even the correct shape of text can be an important factor as to whether a project fails or succeeds. Although Illustrator is not really used for multiple-paged projects, many would agree that it is one of the most powerful applications [...]

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The Design Matrix: A Powerful Tool For Guiding Client Input

Posted by Bridget Fahrland on February 9, 2011 · Comments Off

I used to think the beginning of a website design project was the best part. Hopes are high. People are full of great ideas. Nobody is disappointed yet. But as I gained experience, I found that learning about a client’s brand, competitors and customers doesn’t always give clear direction about design goals.Brand discussions can generate goals like “be modern,” but they don’t [...]

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