Design is not only how it looks, but also how it works. Wireframing is key to a successful user interface design. Wireframes are like blueprints, the foundation on which you plan to build your project. Not only do you get a chance to flesh out the overall structure of...
I’m a doodler. I’ve always enjoyed doodling. Even as a kid, anything within the diameter of our kitchen phone chord’s reach was covered in spirals, patterns, 3D names and numbers. School notebooks and folders were tricked out with ballpoint pen illustrations, band...
Back in 2009 John Gruber wrote on DaringFireball.net that Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground and in that time it was definitely the case — there were new Twitter clients being released seemingly on a weekly basis, each with their own unique take on composing...
I realized something about my life right around the time that I was getting ready to ask my girlfriend to marry me: if I wanted to eat well at home, I was going to have to learn to cook, because she lacked the interest and patience required to cook well (or at all, in...
This morning, a reference to a short and well written PDF written by an engineer at Trolltech/Nokia came through my feed reader. It’s only 33 pages long, and every one of those pages has solid guidelines, recommendations, and examples (both good and bad) of...
