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Type on Screen: an uneasy relationship from the beginning
An “affordance” is a perceived signal or clue that an object may be used to perform a particular action. A chair sits at around knee height and appears to provide support. It affords sitting. A toothbrush has a handle a little longer than the human palm. It affords gripping. via Pocket
If you think it’s crowded now, just wait! The Web is heading toward its own year-end calamity unless some skillful maneuvering is applied — quickly.
Animations are seen in many web sites throughout the Internet. Ease of use is considered as a possible reason for the growing use such multimedia feature in designing of web sites. While animations are ubiquitous in the Web environment, there is an inadequate understanding of its effect on user's attention. Animations are advantages of information technology for web designers, but important questions remain about whether animations work in all situations and for all users. Focusing on web animation, this paper reviews literature and at the end it extracts guide lines for better designing of websites.
User interfaces are often based on static presentations, a model ill-suited for conveying change. Consequently, events on the screen frequently startle and confuse users.
Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones brought the world Gotham, Mercury, and Archer. They had one of the most successfuland lucrativepartnerships in type design. But one of them thought it wasn’t a partnership at all. via Pocket
Wish you were better/smarter/stronger/faster? Sure, hard work helps, but the truth is, your self perception may be getting in the way. We all form our own realities, and those realities aren't perfect. via Pocket
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). To celebrate and to help promote accessibility, here are 10 simple accessibility tips that most anyone can implement today into their web site’s HTML and CSS to make it more accessible.
Even the most confident of us experience self-doubt in our work and life, some more so than others. But with some careful planning, your critical eye can be used to your advantage to sharpen your work. This post originally appeared on the Crew Blog. via Pocket
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.
A series of extraordinary and independently made short films [about] some of the amazing, true-life stories behind the stories.
The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments, the web, mobile devices, wearables, or Internet-connected smart devices. This is a huge revision. I expect I have made mistakes. via Pocket
We've all been there: the task you're trying to finish gets too hard and you want to quit. Weblog Pick the Brain has three questions to ask yourself that can restore your drive. As things bear down on you, the negativity creeps in. via Pocket
A reader-focused redesign: 10 good questions with the LA Times’ Jimmy Orr - American Press Institute
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
Once upon a time, I treated web accessibility as something of an extra. Sure, my images had alt attributes. Yes, my anchors contained titles. I honored 508 compliance, too, but it was usually the last thing I did. 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.
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.
Мы охотно соглашаемся с теми людьми, которые охотно соглашаются с нами. via Pocket