I think that everyone knows the broken windows theory applied to criminology, but it’s quite obvious that it’s something valuable in many other fields, including design, because it’s a simple abstraction that could help drive a complex system. Let’s see a few researches, testing how people’s behaviour change at the change of the environment around [...]
The Dot Loop is so simple it’s almost obvious… once understood. The Dot Loop models the simplest complete process possible, but it’s powerful like a fractal. Regardless of the abstraction level, you can find it everywhere something works.
The screen frame is an important element that is playing a huge role in the current war in the mobile world between Apple, Google and Microsoft. It’s interesting to see how much it’s overlooked, and why it has a huge role in defining the final user experience… for both users and developers.
You have to learn a little more about the history of typography, or type. How it came about. It was invented at the end of the 14th hundred [...] and then for two or three hundred years there were very few different typefaces. Very elegant and that’s it. Some publisher had type and print and [...]
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If you need a simple extension to make screenshot with Google Chrome, Blipshot is for you: real one-click whole-page screenshot.
Talking about CSS in email is almost a forbidden topic, still there’s a big margin to do beautiful things even with the limited toolset that designers have. But to do that, we need to know what are the tools that we can use.
The so-addressed social technologies are here, and here to stay. They are showing the world what you can do with a network and a bit of good social design. But with the growing success of those services, both in usage and in revenue, shouldn’t we stop a while and think about the ethics of them?
An initial design proposal on how we could move forward the good old badge counter interface to something more satisfactory and less prone to anxiety. Welcome to the world of game badges.
Social Usability is one of the core elements in my and Gianandrea Giacoma’s research about psychology applied to interaction design because it describe the enabling elements able to create social network dynamics. In the last year we developed the Checklist in order to make easier to use it, and this year we built a workshop to explain, hands on, how it works for both existing and new services.
