BenGilman

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Archive for the ‘User experience’ category

Eight illustrated tips for better brand guidelines

Effective brand guidelines are vital to the consistent application of any visual brand but which qualities of the best brand documents should you replicate in your own?

Aggregation emptiness

Simple touches help make the best user experiences.

Replicating Apple’s secret sauce

Attempting to bottle the secret of Apple’s success.

A question of properness

When is a password improper?

Blogged from my iPhone

Just found Automattic’s iPhone WordPress blogging application buried in the lower half of the App Store Top 50 so thought I should give it a go. The application is immediately very usable and like many of the better-developed iPhone apps, more feature rich then I’d expected. It’s also proving pretty stable – a quality not [...]