I’m planning to try this myself. Probably this helps you to bridge your static UI mockup to interactive one.

userflow:

A prototyping tool for animation and interaction on desktop and mobile. Framer can help you to quickly build interactions and animations.

Built for designers and integrates with Photoshop. Great alternative to Quartz Composer, Flash or Keynote.

Inception map NY

betweenblog:

userflow:

… most people visit a .gov site once or twice a year—if that. So designing a dynamic, fresh interface is irrelevant—rather, the idea was to make the user experience as simple and static as possible.

There’s only one typeface on Gov.uk, and a somber color palette of black and white gradients and classic blue links. There are no Pinterest logos, no blog content, and precious few images. “You shouldn’t come to the website and say ‘wow, look at the graphic design!,’” Terrett says. “You should come to the website to find out what the minimum wage is.”

(Source: erinlynnyoung)

Because some (many) mobile website suck. This happens if mobile website does not support what the user wanted to do and the user is familiar with web interaction, user transits to full website. “32% of customers” tells that how large portion of mobile websites are doing wrong.

phcubed:

There Is No Mobile Internet!

by Marek Wolski

This is a hack I’ve never known, until now.

littlebigdetails:

OS X - Option-click Sound icon in the menu bar to change sound output and/or input quickly.

/via naveen

Excellent idea!

userflow:

Chocolat - Turns all text into Comic Sans after your trial has expired. 

/via @codepo8

(Source: littlebigdetails)

Having some struggle to color charts and graphs used in UI your designing? Using color palettes like Kuler is one thing, but we, UX practitioner, should be better than that. This article gives you a very quick and solid instruction based on human factors.

via PerceptualEdge

Windows 8: The Boldest, Biggest Redesign In Microsoft’s History

I’ve been Mac user since 2008. Before that I was Windows user all the way since 1993. I wasn’t a big fan of Microsoft UIs back in the day. It was just ok design and visually not interesting at all.

Now that Microsoft made the biggest UI design on their leading OS, Windows, I have to say it’s actually quite interesting change. Yes, I know some people had a very hard time finding how to turn off the computer or other very basic functions. That was quite messed up. However, it doesn’t simply mean the design itself is bad. If you look closely, there is many interesting designs in it and you can absolutely learn from it.

It’s more educational for UX practitioners to think about WHY they designed this way and WHAT intention was behind it. I recommend to do it, It’s quite a good practice.

Related note: Look at UI and interaction design around Control Panel. It was most painful part for most of users. See how they managed this part. It is not perfect at all, but you see lots of effort. 

It’s recommended to read this article both beginner and expert UX practitioners. It’s always quite interesting how other professionals setup their own lab.

As I’m one of humble photographer, I have to repost this. This is totally true if he/she is freelance photographer.

clientsfromhell:

This applies to a lot of freelancer and creative professional work.