Just found these 10 Rules for augmenting the fun and beauty when designing interaction: Don’t think products, think experiences. Don’t think beauty in appearance, think beauty in interaction. Don’t think ease of use, think enjoyment of the experience. Don’t think buttons, think rich actions. Don’t think labels, think expressiveness and identity. These were taken from the Funology book: “Let’s Make things Engaging” by Overbeeke et. al. Continue reading the list.
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Notes from the Road – Great Blog Design
Talking about blog design, take a look at Notes from the Road, a travel blog by Erik Gauger that has been recognized because of its great design. Featuring great photos and stories, Notes from the Road invites you to travel around the world and discover great places at cities and country. Forget about the classic WordPress or MovableType design themes, even if they are free or not… Notes from the Road takes the blog design one step forward. Notes from the Road
15 Incredible Conceptual Designs (you wish existed)
Talking about usability and consumer products. Creativecloseup.com published this collection of 15 great designs that, as they say, for several reasons may never reach the production stage, but may set a trend and definitely make us whish they really existed.
10 usability nightmares…
Smashing Magazine published a few months ago an interesting list of usability nightmares that you should be aware of: Hidden log-in link One of the most used links (if not the most) should be always placed in a relevant and visible position. Pop-ups for content presentation It is really not a good idea to open a pop-up window to show the content, at the end, browsers nowadays block automatically that kind of javascripts and so you’re forced to use the famous “if the window has not opened click here”. Dragging instead of vertical navigation There are some flash enthusiast that keep going under the idea that the user has to “discover” the way a site must be used. The dragging technique claims to break the scrolling paradigm and let users interact with the page dragging it instead of scrolling. This might become a new trend in the future but for Seguir leyendo