These brief videos from Nielsen Norman Group – and the articles accompanying them – are great summaries of principles of good design and worth (re)visiting… Read More »Resources from Nielsen Norman: Peak-End Rule, Working Memory, Cognitive Load and User Experience
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?
Design / information architecture / clarity, simplicity and focus matter a great deal – probably more than you think.Highly recommend the whole of this post… Read More »Design matters (7): Death by PowerPoint
SVG images (SVG = Scaleable Vector Graphics) are more or less what they sound like – images that can be scaled up or down without… Read More »Resource: SVG images with Inkscape in 6 minutes
These two things: 1) The two holes in the base of the attachment to allow water to drain.2) The rubber skirt around the edge to… Read More »Design matters (6): Bosch hand-blender attachment
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
Download and install Irfanview (“One of the most popular viewers worldwide.”) Go to the folder that contains the photos you want to resize. Open one… Read More »Resource: how to bulk resize images with Irfanview (resize multiple files)
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