From April 2014, digital services from the government must meet the new Digital by Default Service Standard.

We know some devices won’t display icon fonts: but how many people are really affected? We decided to do some research to quantify things.

Animation can be a very effective mechanism to convey information in visualization and user interface settings. However, integrating animated presentations into user interfaces has typically been a difficult task since, to date, there has been little or no explicit support for animation in window systems or user interface toolkits. This paper describes how the Artkit user interface toolkit has been extended with new animation support abstractions designed to overcome this problem.

Web Fundamentals is a comprehensive resource for multi-device web development.

Code School teaches web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts.

The Brains, Behavior and Design toolkit draws from academic research in behavioral economics and cognitive psychology to help designers and business leaders understand and influence consumer decisions.

We believe that better products, services and outcomes result from a richer understanding of the people they serve.

The toolkit is designed to be both informative and actionable - helping you integrate the latest research in human behavior and decision making into your practice.

A series of extraordinary and independently made short films [about] some of the amazing, true-life stories behind the stories.

The Los Angeles Times just redesigned their site with a focus on mobile and a goal of increasing reader engagement through pre-written tweets or “sharelines,” infinite scrolling, and a handful of other design specs. via Pocket

Digital news design is an awkward phase. Particularly on the Web, which feels transitory. While there is incredible momentum around responsive design and bright spots of bold storytelling, the foundations of most sites feel fragmented and chaotic. While many sites seem on the cusp of something big and revolutionary, most have not fully transitioned to feel “of the Web” in 2014. Many publications, particularly international sites, felt stale and stagnant. The innovation seen in South American and European sites in past years has almost vanished.

At first glance, InDesign might not seem like a natural choice for UX design. But the interactive and animation tools that make InDesign great for designing ebooks and apps also happen to be ideal for designing wireframes and prototypes. In this installment of UX Design Tools, Justin Putney shows how to use InDesign's grid and guides to align wireframe objects, create shapes, save and reuse text and object styles, and add interactivity and motion to your designs. Plus, learn how to create alternative layouts and liquid layouts that automatically scale when displayed on different devices, and build a library of reusable artwork.

The Usability Body of Knowledge is dedicated to creating a living reference that represents the collective knowledge of the usability profession. Such a collection of knowledge for the usability profession will necessarily be broad and inclusive in scope, because our profession is inherently multidisciplinary and draws on a wide range of other practices.

Für den Fall, dass alles schiefgeht und sich jeder Traum als Sackgasse erweist, hat Iouri Podladtchikov einen Plan im Hinterkopf: die Eröffnung eines Früchtestands. «Den ganzen…

High-end restaurants construct entrees out of what used to be considered weeds. Uni has replaced foie gras as the go-to luxury. And when you ask a local food-obsessive about her favorite restaurants, she is far more likely to mention a Thai noodle shop or a renegade taquero than she is anything with a Michelin star. Welcome to the Los Angeles restaurant scene, 2014.

After an Australian vessel, Ocean Shield, again detected deep-sea signals consistent with those from an airplane’s black box, the official leading a multination search expressed hope Wednesday that crews will begin to find wreckage of a missing Malaysian airliner “within a matter of days.”“I believe we’re searching in the right area,” Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said.

The biggest collection of Design Principles on the Interweb.

CSS Conf May 2014

Хочу рассказать о том, как я сдавала экзамен Certified Usability Analyst от Human Factors International.

Курсы в Беларуси по юзабилити и UX

Some inspiration for effects applied to title headers of articles with a fullscreen image. The idea is to show some creative transition when continuing to the article body.