Speckyboy Design Magazine
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
What if there was a way to stop your clients from saying: “Yeah, the logo looks good. But how’s it gonna look once we add it to our branding materials?” Let’s be honest: working with design clients isn’t easy. Chances are, you deal with a lot of edits and convincing. Unfortunately, that’s pretty normal with work that produces virtual results.
Interaction Design Foundation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Empathy is the ability to understand and identify with another person’s context, emotions, goals and motivations. In order to design great experiences, successful design firms actively search for empathic insights into their target group. In a design context, empathy serves a distinct purpose: to inspire design decisions in the early stages of the process.
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Colossal
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
“Mindless #3.” All images © Arinze Stanley, courtesy of Corey Helford Gallery, shared with permission. Arinze Stanley describes his hyperrealistic drawings as “a simple language of my feelings.” In a statement about his new series titled Paranormal Portraits , the Nigerian artist ( previously ) says he uses his art as a form of political activism and as a way to amplify the voices of those who are unheard.
Design You Trust
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
An unsung pioneer of vernacular photography since the 1950s, Karlheinz Weinberger (1921–2006) captured a young generation of Swiss rebels who were greatly influenced by American culture. h/t: vintag.es For most of his adult life, Weinberger worked in the warehouse department of the Siemens-Albis factory in Zurich. In his free time, he escaped his job’s monotony by immersing himself in photography.
Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People
Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t
Interaction Design Foundation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
The idea of shadowing someone to see what they are doing is not new. It is a technique that is widely implemented in user research. The idea is simple; the researcher accompanies the user and observes how they use the product or service within their natural environment. Shadowing also takes place in other fields of business and in particular internal business process design and human resource situations where a potential recruit learns from someone who is already handling an existing role in a b
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Interaction Design Foundation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
User interviews can be a great way to extract information from users for user experience understanding, usability understanding and ideation. They are cheap and easy to conduct and can be readily conducted by anyone who can ask questions and record the answers. Author/Copyright holder: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Copyright terms and licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Feature Shoot
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
This photograph was taken at the two-day Emotional and Physical Resilience Workshop (2019). It was organized at Blink by Alison Baskerville at ROAAAR, with funding from the IWMF. Our first workshop to place in Chiang Mai, Thailand at Documentary Arts Asia with Ryan Libre (2017). As digital photography radically democratizes the medium, taking it out of the provenance of a once-elite group of imagemakers and gatekeepers, the subject of ethics in photography has come to the fore.
Interaction Design Foundation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Today, we’re going to take a look at three contexts of the concept of use: useful, usable and used. The first two terms, useful and usable, are bandied around a lot in terms of user experience and design while the third term, used, barely gets a mention. Yet, as we’ll come to see it may be the most important of the three terms to designers and businesses alike.Author/Copyright holder: MsSaraKelly.
Interaction Design Foundation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Have you ever felt overwhelmed with information while you were searching for something specific? Have you ever been lost in the haystack, looking for that one tiny needle? If your users are anything like you, they will sometimes feel overwhelmed or lost, too, unless you minimize their efforts by providing them with a search box. These may be small, and sometimes only appear after a “Command-F” or “Control-F” keyboard shortcut, but they are truly powerful design elements you should be confident t
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Interaction Design Foundation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Once you’ve built your prototypes based on the ideas you and your team generated, it’s time to gather feedback from the people on whom you are testing these. Optimising how you gather feedback — and, therefore, learn from your prototypes and users — is essential to help you save time and resources in the Prototype and Test stages of the Design Thinking process – and in any other human-centred design process.
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