Jan 26, 2011
Design patterns for Android interfaces.
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Design patterns for Android interfaces.
Do you often look at your designs and tell yourself that they just aren't nefarious enough? Check out DarkPatterns: How designers more evil than you trick their users into doing what they want them to.
A summary of the notes that Luke Wroblewski took throughout the Web App Masters Tour. I've posted a few of these already, but this summary posts links to all of them. Lots of good stuff in here.
A long article discussing the importance of designing for internal and external consistency. The article covers pretty straightforward stuff, but I find that reading this type of article serves as a good refresher every once-in-a-while.
The author suggests three principles of designing happiness into experiences:
1. Mindfulness - anticipating a providing for the users' needs and goals, even before they realize what they are
2. Flow - making the users' tasks and the transitions between them so smooth and so immersive that they lose track of time
3. Meaning - creating the perception that the user is changing the world in some way.
I'm not sure if the word "Flow" fully captures what the author is presenting it as, and the word implies a relationship with how she defines "Mindfulness". Shouldn't "mindful" design, as it is defined in the article, require and encompass good "flow"?
By "Flow", it seems like author is speaking more about the infusion of game design theory into non-game design. This is the type of thing that keeps people playing Farmville. In any case, even though I think better themes might be able to be defined for designing for happiness, the examples that the author provides are all good and worth looking over.