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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
This article from Techradar makes some interesting points about Apple’s success in interface and product design – primarily that pleasure is the key to interfaces and that is the base ingredient of Apple’s success.
For me, one section jumped out discussing the original Mac team’s approach to design:
“Rather than survey a bunch of users on every [...]
A question of properness
From the Southern Electric website…
Nice grass effect, nice button, but I’m not sure that error message and the associated tooltip really give you all the information you need to proceed from here.
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 yet [...]