Web-Design and Development Magazine
The Beatles are probably one of the most iconic popular music groups of our time. They were considered the best and most popular at what they did, and they deservingly secured their spot in our history books.
Their influence and mastery of creativity extends even beyond music. In fact, there are actually 5 things the Beatles can teach you about design.
Software and application development is a complex process. A single project may involve tens or even hundreds of people spread across dozens of teams and even multiple continents.
Like any major discipline accounting for millions of jobs, software development has many different methodologies and techniques, ranging from Agile development to Waterfall and Prototyping.
As a consumer, we seek out products, services, and practitioners that are friendly, helpful, interesting and overall pleasant to deal with.
When you select individuals and organizations to interact with or do business with you are making a decision based on the totality of their behavioural characteristics and how you emotionally react to them.
Oftentimes, the best inspiration comes when you look outside of your circle or industry. You see a fresh perspective and gain new insights for your own field. The reason this works is a lot of fields are creative.
So even though, say, music and design don’t have much in common on the surface, the creative parallels are pretty clear. And sure enough, there are 5 things musicians can teach designers.
If you want to get more results in less time, you need to simplify and streamline your work. So how exactly do you do that? By listing and then doing only the most important tasks, being effective instead of just productive, and working only when you’re most creative.
Basically, you’re cutting out the fat and excess from your workflow. By doing so, you’ll spend less time working and actually get more important things done. More results in less time.
Over the years, I have read probably hundreds of usability tips and tricks. They all seem to give generally decent advice that are all blanket statements about usability. Such things as “Use a sans-serif” or “Make sure to minimize scrolling” are common among these lists.
Pretty ambiguous title isn’t it? That’s entirely intentional, because the topic of this particular article is something that a lot of web designers seem to hate talking about.
But, now that I’ve got you here hopefully you’ll stick around, so I’ll let the cat out of the bag (so to speak). In this article we’re going to be talking about Web 2.0. Don’t run away just yet!
Sometimes we can understand concepts without ever ‘knowing‘ the concept. As an example; few people would claim to ‘know‘ how learning occurs, however we are all capable of learning. Clearly the understanding of, and ability to do so, are quite separate skill sets.
Layers of abstraction is one such concept — we make use of layers of abstraction every day and yet it allows us to better understand the world in which we work.
Design is an interesting element whether for tangible goods or not. In the tangible goods industry, packaging design can sometimes affect potential buyers to purchase a specific item, or to deter them from that specific item. For example, if you are shopping for a food product, and you notice two different brands with two different […]
I have found that the best way to think of user experience is as the core of a brand: the reactor or the nucleus. Without good user experience your brand means nothing. But what is a brand? Its most basic definition is the sum of the experiences that a person has with a company or […]
