In case you’ve missed it, the quality of PowerPoint’s automatic design recommendations has been getting better and better over the last few years.* This latest… Read More »Design Matters (11): PowerPoint Wizardry
I want to show you, as a little experiment, this piece of art and ask you what this is a picture of. Can you tell… Read More »Utagawa Hiroshige and Jakob Nielsen: Art vs Design
Effective interfaces are visually apparent and forgiving, instilling in their users a sense of control. Users quickly see the breadth of their options, grasp how… Read More »Design Matters (9): Bruce Tognazzini’s First Principles of Interaction Design [Radio Edit]
I can make a reasonably sensible filing system, but tend to fall down when it comes to the practice of administrative maintenance. Like personal hygiene,… Read More »Design Matters (8): Where’s that file?
Here are three water dispensers: … may not be a thing of beauty but it’s clean and relatively well designed in terms of the aesthetics… Read More »Design Matters (5): the information architecture of a water dispenser
How you prefer recipes to be organised is probably a matter of taste, but there seem to be a lot of badly designed ones out… Read More »Design Matters (4): a recipe for trouble
Ingenious is the name of the game – it’s good. The design feature shown here is such a simple thing: you are allowed 6 tiles… Read More »Design Matters (3): Ingenious board game tile holder and embodied memory
This is a great (long) article about what Stripe is up to with a lot of interesting detail about how the internet works as a… Read More »Recommendation: Bryne Hobart (The Diff) on Stripe, ecosystems and the infrastucture of the internet
I generally think the design of Android is good. Few things bother me, I can almost always find what I’m looking for, and it all… Read More »Design Matters (2): badly designed Android Bluetooth menu
When you’re making a new system – a workflow, a procedure for quality control or process management, a new tool for others to use –… Read More »The second time through the process