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Articles tagged "design"

June 11 2013

The importance of sense of place while designing digital products
May 30 2013

Pin this! How Pinterest is failing at what what they’re supposed to do best
March 6 2013

Breaking down Amazon’s smartly designed mega dropdown
  Ben Kamens of Khan Academy has posted a lovely review of Amazon’s user-friendly and fast mega dropdown. Ben’s…
February 25 2013

Don’t let your data lie.
In the screen shot above the current temperature is 41º but the low is listed as 43º. This is lazy…
February 18 2013

John E Karlin, human-factors pioneer.
There’s a wonderful obituary for John E Karlin from the New York Times. The obit is surprisingly more thorough…
December 19 2012

The anatomy of a website redesign. How the new sayyeah.com came to be.
Since our inception in 2008, our website has led with a blog, with some links to the site which allowed…
December 16 2012

The very, very poorly designed iTunes 11
I’ve had a rather torturous affair with iTunes 11 thus far. While there are some general improvements for non-power users…
December 10 2012

University of California identity
Well, the launch video for the new University of California identity is fun. And I love the deference to the…
October 3 2012

Team Canada’s wonderfully simple 1972 yoga jersey.
Nigel Smith recently wrote a great article noting the design history of Team Canada’s iconic jerseys, chock full of fun little…
September 25 2012

The details are not the details. They make the design.
The details are not the details. They make the design. Charles Eames.
September 20 2012

“By moving from the artifact to words, you game the system”
[Y]ou’ve already chosen the medium to make your argument, and it’s your actual design work. By moving from the artifact…
September 10 2012

There is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
Few people think about it or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does…
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