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Posts tagged ‘Design’
Take more baths
Because it is a universally-accepted fact that the ideas creation process is best triggered by dousing oneself in warm water. Ergo, a design lesson.
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?
Happy 2009
A belated welcome to the New Year with possibly empty resolutions of improvements to come.
Redecorate with Desktoptopia
Reviewing a simple little app to improve the quality of your Windows or Mac desktop.
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 [...]