Posted in design, user experience on January 8th, 2010 Comments? »
I just stumbled across Cennydd’s post about ‘blaming the designer’, which somewhat reflects my work experiences in the past year. I too, found the “design hell” comic to be humorous, and admittedly counted it as gospel truth initially. Then I forgot about it and like all designers/developers, went back and dealt with the hard stuff [...]
Posted in design, user experience on November 15th, 2009 Comments? »
If you’ve ever watched Gary Hustwit’s Helveticaor Objectified, and can relate to the uber-geek sensibility of how design affects the way people live, you should also watch Stewart Brand’s series on “How Buildings Learn”, which incidentally is also a a book of the same name. I’ve even embedded all six episodes below for your convenience.
This [...]
Posted in design, user experience on October 7th, 2009 Comments? »
I feel really guilty because I’ve been neglecting this blog about interactions, especially when almost everything I do for a living involves designing for interactions.
Instead, I find myself spending more and more time blogging about careers, which in a way doesn’t have anything to do with interaction. Except for one thing – the human condition.
The [...]
Posted in books, cognition, design, user experience on September 4th, 2009 Comments? »
Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
I was one of the lucky winners of this book from Morgan Kaufmann after I donated some money to the IxDA fundraising initiative. After turning in my MSc Project dissertation, I finally had some time to catch a breath. You’d think that reading a book on [...]
Posted in design, user experience on June 30th, 2009 Comments Off
I was having a reflective conversation with Darren on our way home from Cambridge the other day, after our meeting with Microsoft about our MSc projects. The both of us had very similar experiences stumbling upon UX.
In fact, i had come across it from understanding usability, or more specifically, web usability. And I think I [...]
Posted in css, design, development, programming, user experience, web on June 7th, 2009 Comments Off
Once again, I am getting my hands dirty with CSS. And I’m no expert, but having read through numerous articles from A List Apart, I’ve been fairly sensitive to how “designer-y” people think and react to CSS issues.
For one, I am currently working with rey who’s coding up the front-end for a site we’re building. [...]