Reactive Design
April 8, 2015A collection of design insights about perceived speed.
Accessibility Wins
April 2, 2015Accessibility is an important, yet way too often overlooked area. Accessibility Wins is a tumblr blog dedicated to showcase accessible user interfaces. Like it!
Birdly
March 28, 2015Birdly is a pretty cool project which intends to simulate flying like a bird in a full body simulator. It uses an Oculus Rift, a moving platform, wind, tactile feedback and even different smells to create a truly virtual reality experience.
I would love to try this thing out for a fly once and there could even be a chance given that it’s developed here in Zurich at the University of the Arts.
The user is drunk
March 25, 2015Your website should be so simple, a drunk person could use it.
You can’t test that. I’ll do it for you.
WHAT: I’ll get very drunk, and then review your website. I’ll send you a document outlining where I thought the website needed help, and a screencast of me going over the website.
HOW MUCH: $150 per site.
There are some ideas in this world where you cannot tell if ridiculously stupid or simply genius. This is one of those.
"Design is how you treat your customers." – Yves Behar
— Christopher Stark (@digimgmt) March 21, 2015
Can we create new senses for humans
March 22, 2015This is pretty amazing.
“Quantity Queries” in Sass
March 19, 2015As i wrote before i really liked the concept of “Quantity Queries” in CSS to style elements based on their quantity. It was only a matter of time until someone took the idea to Sass.
Mike Monteiro Keynote at interaction15
March 14, 2015interaction15 is a three day conference held by the Interaction Design Association in San Francisco. Mike Monteiro gave another fantastic talk about selling design, which should be mandatory for every designer. It’s a little over an hour, but definitely worth every minute.
CSS-Tricks – Polylion
March 13, 2015
Maybe you’ve seen this awesome animated SVG Polylion from Dennis Gaebel. Just saw that he wrote an article on CSS-Tricks where he shares how he built it. Hope i find some time soon to play around with this technique and with SVG’s in general.
A web browser for the Apple Watch?
March 11, 2015On this weeks Keynote Apple revealed some more infos about the Apple Watch. The one thing that interested me most as a web designer (and would have made a very good reason to justify buying one) is if there will be some form of a real web browser. Unfortunately there’s not a whole lot of information about that and i cannot remember Apple saying a single word about it.
Peter Paul Koch mentioned in this article back in September 2014 that there will be Apps with WebViews, but nothing like a full featured browser, which still seems to hold true. He speculated that the reasons behind this are mostly hardware and user experience.
It’s possible that the current Watch hardware isn’t yet powerful enough to run a full browser, and that Apple will make sure that any app using the WebView doesn’t do anything heavy such as running JavaScript or animations. Even if that’s the case right now, the problem will go away as hardware matures, and I don’t think it’s the fundamental reason why the Watch doesn’t have a browser.
Instead, consider the user experience. How do you enter a URL on your Watch? How do you fill out a form? You don’t, as far as I can see — there may not even be enough space on the display for a Back button.
I quite agree with him, the technology/hardware side will mature fast and won’t be the problem here. But to be able to solve the UX of web browsing on smart watches will take some time, because we just don’t know yet how people will react to new ways of interaction. Will “Force Touch” enable useful new ways of interacting with a website? Will speech and motion recognition play a bigger role in tomorrows web design? We don’t know yet, but it’s completely imaginable that somewhere in the future we won’t even need to manually enter URL’s or filling out forms anymore.