Category: UX Design
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The Horse in Motion
Dabbling on RE:Creation No. 3—will publish soon. See the Pen RE:Creation No. 3: The Horse in Motion | CSS by Brian Dys (@briandys) on CodePen. Reference Wikipedia
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A Two-Week Timeframe
Recently, I’ve been drafting a Project Communications Framework that will guide the design team in handling design projects—from alignments to presenting our works. Committing to a timeframe is one important aspect and here’s a visualization of it. See the Pen A Two-Week Timeframe by Brian Dys (@briandys) on CodePen.
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Is web design dying? Is custom design gone? How do we convince people that custom design is better than the 10 buck template deal online?
Do you see web design laying down the curb, breathing its last breath? It’s true that the term “web design” is rarely heard in job postings and in the industry simply because every thing connected to it has moved on. Primarily the technology in which we access the web. It has gone from the big…
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The Philippine Passport Design of 2018
Recently, a family member renewed a passport. The design is reminiscent of the one-hundered peso bill with its purplish color and “entched” illustration style. I like it.
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Are there professional Web designers who don’t know to use Photoshop?
What are other web design tools available out there other than Photoshop? Web design has evolved from being focused on graphics down to being focused on content and experience. Even imagine the time when web design was done using Flash. This is one of the reasons why in the past, that a photo-editing application like…
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Is it required to follow a design guide when designing a product? Isn’t it more important to give the user a better experience than sticking to the design guide?
Ideally, design guides, brand guidelines, style guides, etc. are based on research. They did not appear in a vacuum. Collaborate with the people who made the guides and find out if you are aligned with the same objectives. The user and business objectives are the guidelines for the team, whether in UI design or frontend…
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What’s the difference between UI design and UX design?
These are the Elements of UX according to Jesse James Garrett: Strategy – user and business objectives Scope – content and functional requirements Structure – Information Architecture and Interaction Design Skeleton – Information Design, UI Design, Navigation Design Surface – Sensory Design (e.g., Visual Design, Audial Design) UI Design practically comes after having objectives and…
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Should buttons become lighter or darker when hovered over?
What is the mental model of the user interface—or at least the UI buttons? The Feedback Aspect Just like with most physical buttons, if a user wants to press it, he or she touches it. The feedback comes from its look and feel (it looks like a button; it feels like it can be pressed…
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Timeline Visual Design on Article Dates
One thing to consider when designing the visuals of a timeline is that the highlight (in the form of a bullet point) must be on the date. See the Pen Timeline Visual Design on Article Dates by Brian Dys (@briandys) on CodePen.
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Hot Spotting
Admittedly in the design industry, there are lots of terms being used to call design artifacts (not to mention their combos)—flowcharts, wireframes, wireflows, comps, FAs, and prototypes. A prototype is not an artifact per se but what we make of an artifact. It cuts across disciplines and stages in the design process because of its…