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UI Design: How Golden Ratio Works in User Interfaces

The article considers Golden Ratio as an effective technique for web and mobile user interfaces: check how it brings balance and aesthetics into UI design.

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“For Here or To Go?” Menus Are Conversational Too – Google Design – Medium

Not every question in a voice user interface needs to be open-ended. I’m here to tell you that it’s alright to use menus.

A good read that pertains mostly to voice assistant user experience, but I think it can apply to all digital forms of UX.

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Kooky logos for HP’s Overwatch teams for the After Hours Gaming League!

Scrap Metal / Health Pack / OWL icon

Good luck to all the teams this season!

bonus Junkrat Clown 9 skin!

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Playful Palette: An Interactive Parametric Color Mixer for Artists

Graphics research from Adobe Research and University of Toronto have designed a digital painting palette interface with features similar to real-world physical paint mixing:

Playful Palette is a color picker interface for digital paint programs that derives intuition from oil and watercolor palettes, but extends them with digital features. The palette is compactly parameterized as a set of color blobs that blend together to create gradients and gamuts. They can be directly manipulated to explore arrangements and harmonies. All edits are non-destructive, and an infinite history allows previous palettes to be revisited and modified, recoloring the painting. This design is motivated by a pilot study of how artists use paint palettes, and is evaluated with another group of traditional and digital artists to demonstrate Playful Palette’s effectiveness at enabling artists’ color tasks, and at amplifying their creativity.

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THIS IS THE COOLEST THING IVE EVER SEEN

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An Exclusive Look At Airbnb’s First Foray Into Urban Planning

Airbnb announces a brand-new innovation lab called Samara, whose first project is a novel community center in Japan.

Wow, this look great! Awesome that Airbnb is expanding their ideas!

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Bad typography has ruined more than just the Oscars

How bad design changed award shows, elections, and your medicine cabinet. The 2017 Oscars ended with a pretty shocking mix-up. Announcer Warren Beatty incorr...

Design is important

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Why should designers care about Behaviour Driven Development?

Behavioural Driven Development helps developers and designers combine their thinking and tackle problems together, from the very first stages of a project.

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How to Design for Color Blindness

Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) affects around 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women worldwide. This means that for every 100…

Good to know.

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Lottie

Easily add high-quality animation to any native app. Lottie is an iOS, Android, and React Native library that renders After Effects animations in real time, allowing apps to use animations as easily as they use static images.

pretty...i’ll have to get into this!

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TinEye is a reverse image search engine built by Idée. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.

Cool color-based image search site!

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How to use colors in UI Design

Practical tips and tools.

Great color theory article!

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Guess who’s been playing Overwatch

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.611690878988724.1073741843.292929874198161&type=3

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The Harvard Library That Protects The World's Rarest Colors

The most unusual colors from Harvard's storied pigment library include beetle extracts, poisonous metals, and human mummies.

I would literally dye for this

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It's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.

There's a door on the 10th floor of the Vox Media office I hate so much. I can never remember which way it opens, and I get it wrong every single time. You probably know one of these terror doors...

Not just user experience design, but human-centered design.

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Designers' favorite typefaces - InVision Blog

Nothing stirs up a more impassioned debate with designers than asking them to choose their favorite typeface.

It's fun to see the types of typefaces designers like nowadays! @invisionapp

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Why Passphrases Are More User-Friendly Than Passwords – Smashing Magazine

Nearly half of Americans have had their account hacked in the last year. Are web designers and developers taking enough measures to prevent these problems?

This is such an interesting idea, and it could change the way we use passwords in the future!

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Misused mobile UX patterns

If you are an experienced designer, you probably agree that being inspired by others is not stealing in UI design. It’s …

Some interesting thoughts posed by UX designer Zoltan Kollin. I always thought minimalism = good design, but he made me think otherwise.