Tag: design
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UI Missteps: Form over Function
Don’t get me wrong. The people at MacUpdate usually do a great job of managing and taking user feedback. But even with their careful curation of Mac & iOS apps that receive updates (sometimes numbering close to 100 OS X apps alone in one day), things slip through the cracks. I wasted about 5 minutes trying to…
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Graphic Design Language Consistency
While I have often said that a lot of UI changes are simply eye candy, and add nothing important other than “bling” to a design, not all UI changes fall into that category. However, looking back, I noticed my posts have beat around this huge unaddressed important distinction of UI design that pretty much no…
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New Post: On Listening to customers, ad-free now live on 10C
I reply to an article on linked in about the meaning of Jobs’ “not listening to customers” and a better (more Apple-like) approach to product design from my point of view, augmented with intensive needs assessment. All part of my “push/code/design to edges” concept I developed last millennia. http://noivad.10centuries.com/2014/06/20/on-listening-to-customers/ Because ad-free is a lot nicer…
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Professional Typography & Design: The Path to Technomancy, Part 3
After I was hired to be a DTP monkey, I applied and refined my wild layouts, but had to tone them down quite a bit for business documents. (Wired back then was tame compared to my unrefined layout.) Being a bit of a perfectionist that cares about anything I do—whether paid or not—I started studying…
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DTP Monkey: The Path to Technomancy, Part 2
The unofficial-turned-official club newsletter was directly responsible for me landing my first real job as a DTP monkey. I walked into the interview with my portfolio of club newsletter and stickers I made on my old Mac SE and the Mac IIci my best friend had that were printed on my trusty, 70+ pound LaserWriter…