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.

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. 

Yes, they are likely to be forgotten when days are busy.

betweenblog:

Not new, but good to read it again.

1. Focus on the Primary Task
2. Elevate the Content that People Care About
3. Think Top Down
4. Give People a Logical Path to Follow
5. Make Usage Easy and Obvious
6. Use User-Centric Terminology
7. Minimize the Effort Required for User Input
8. Downplay File-Handling…

Touch gestures on WIndows 8 and its usability issues

Here is one very good article about new Windows 8 UI, metro, from Windows developer group themselves. You can see neat breakdown of touch gestures in Windows 8 and potential issues.

Must read if you are interaction designer that involves touch gesture stuff.

Via: MSDN Blogs

Autonomous Vehicle - From Stanford Online AI Class

It’s not the SF story, but what if all the cars in the world are completely automated? Anyway, watch this video.

Human Factors experts know that automation can help people, but too much automation can cause boredom, confusion, frustration, and ultimately accidents. However, what if your vehicle is completely automated? Well, all cars in the world are automated, the story would be much different, I guess. And fully automated car is actually in a practice phase already.

AI cars that they tested look really intelligent and stable. You will be surprised the fact that  the technology is advanced this far.

This time, I present you an exquisite mobile UI examples.

Be inspired!

Thanks Mari Sheibley!

Evolution of Web by Google

This awesome visual presentation made from HTML5 explains transition of web browsers including IE, Net Scape, Opera, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. It also contains development of markup languages. I’m sure it will be quite useful to get a grasp of web technology now and then.

Thanks Google!

Fun fact:

Most claimed skill: HTML and CSS

Companies want someone who can design, not analyst.

Like I mentioned before, looking up some good design patterns are totally fine and make your work much more efficient and easier. Here is a very convenient design pattern search engine, which incorporated with 22 design pattern websites.

Go use it!

Sincere gratitude to UX for the masses 

Sometimes you might want to get some inspiration to create a new design. I think it is quite okay to look up someone’s great design example and borrow some concepts behind it, and those links are the portal to useful design examples to inspire yourself!

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