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  • Layout: it’s all about divisibility!

    Coming up with a simple grid system for your ui or website layout can make designing easier and produce more professional results. Not only are you making it easier on yourself your making a user friendly design because the layout is easier to understand…
  • What’s new in iOS 7? Neither features nor functions, but user experience!

    On June 10, 2013 Apple announced its new mobile operating systemiOS 7. It gained a lot of attention with its new visual style but was also controversial. Many people felt uncomfortable with the big shift from Apple’s legacy skeuomorph…

  • UX of Responsive Web Design

    What is Responsive Web Design?

    Ethan Marcotte first used the term Responsive Web Design in his article in A List Apart in May of 2010. Marcotte explains that designing for every screen size and device is not practical, there are simply too many devices…

  • First Impression of BlackBerry 10’s New Design

    Besides the big release of Microsoft Windows 8 OS, another potential hit at the beginning of 2013 must be BlackBerry 10.  With glimpses at some of their key features from developer previews, I've tried to compare it with Blackberry’s current OS, 7.1…

  • AVG’s new Windows 8 style UI (formerly known as Metro).

    AVG is an anti-virus software. In anticipation of the upcoming Windows 8, they’ve just modernized their UI to look like Windows 8 style UI – what was formerly known as Metro.

     

    It used to look like this:

    image of old AVG look

     

    Now it looks like this:

    image of new AVG look

    Typical Windows…

  • Keming, or the importance of not being a click.

    Keming

    This is Important

    Let me start with some namedropping, to prove the importance of the subject. Apple just changed the kerning of the word “click“ on the El Capitan website (and tens of articles were published instantly on the topic), because the…

  • The Stroop Effect and its Implications in UX Design

    What happens when your brain is trying to process conflicting streams of information? Let’s find out.

    Read this list of colors to yourself:

    Red

    Green

    Blue

    Purple

    Black

    Brown

    Yellow

    Red

    Blue

    Pink

    Orange

    Piece of cake right? You are only concentrating…