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6 principles for designing trustworthy learning experiences.

If you find yourself enjoying an app or a service and you keep coming back to it every day, it’s most likely because you trust that your actions and intentions will be Acknowledged, Rewarded and Remembered. I used to call this, the ARR principle (Pirate voice!).

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Inspirational and Useful Resources for App Designers

This is a great collection of GUI's, mock-ups, Complete UI and Design elements with PSD files for download, skeuomorphic interface samples, icons, printable sketching templates which we have gathered here for all app designers and we are sure you will find very useful. Save this entry to your favorites!

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Principles of Flat Design

Flat design – the design community just can’t stop talking about it.

And feelings are strong. Most designers either can’t get enough of this trend, or absolutely hate it.

I am somewhere in the middle. Good design is about creating something useful that works. If the answer is designed in the fashion of flatness, so be it. But the trend may not work for all projects, so it should not be forced.

So let’s examine what makes something flat. There are five pretty distinct characteristics. Here’s a look at each, plus an introduction to “almost” flat design.