Articles tagged with: usability
Simplicity by Design: History of the London Tube Map
Before 1933 London’s various underground lines had been laid out geographically over the roadway of a city map. Here is an example from 1919:
Harry Beck an English engineering draftsman at the …
Google Blockly – A Visual Programming Language
Google Blockly is a visual programming language that allows you to easily combine blocks of logic and functionally.
Look at the Maze Demo to get an impression how it works (Note: It …
The ROI of User Experience
In this short animated video Dr. Susan Weinschenk demonstrates how user centered design results in significant return on investment (ROI):
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Transcript:
User experience is the science and art of …
User Experience vs. User Interface
It is quite common for people, even inside software development teams to use the acronyms UX and UI as synonyms, but they are quite different. UX stands for “User Experience” while UI stands for “User …
The Metro Design Language
A couple years ago the Windows Phone design team realized that the design path that Windows Mobile was on was not sustainable and decided start afresh.
When given the chance for a …
How to Create Attractive, User Friendly Applications?
In this article I like to share my mental model about UI / UX development. It is all about creating attractive, user friendly applications. But in order to do this you need to understand attraction …
