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Articles tagged ‘interface design’.

Designing an online app

August 1st, 2010

Indie Aisle is a project I’ve been working on and off for a couple of years now. This past year however, I really got going with it, spending most of my available time outside of client work. Since the beginning the visual design for it has gone through quite a few iterations that I thought [...]

South by Southwest Interactive 2010 Notes

March 21st, 2010

They may not be as creative as all the sketch-based notes out there, but here’s what I got out of some of the South By Southwest Interactive panels I went to this year:
Sketching:

Mood boarding for getting a good sense of the style
Concept sketching for early stage visualizing of various pieces
Process: Design, research, design, build
Storyboard lifecycles [...]

The self-evolving website

March 6th, 2009

 
An idea I’ve been thinking about for a while now is self-evolving web design. The self-evolving website would be a combination between having dynamic database-driven content and something similar to smartphone technology where the presentation of content changes based on specific user interaction. It’s difficult to really describe at this point, so I figured I [...]

New Xbox Experience (NXE) interface

November 25th, 2008

Three years after the Xbox 360’s release comes a new version of the Xbox… software. In a similar move to the Zune, Microsoft has decided to focus on software upgrades for improving their current hardware. While some would say the new interface overhaul was unecessary, after actually using it for a while, besides being prettier, it starts [...]

Xbox 360 interface

November 25th, 2005

The Xbox 360 came out this week and with it, a lot of positive reviews. One aspect that impressed critics and gamers alike is the game system’s interface. This Thanksgiving, I was lucky enough to try out the system since my cousin was actually able to get his hands on one after spending a [...]