Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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Whether I listen to my brain, or my heart, I still
don't understand how these damn things work
When I told my Graphic Design professor that I wanted to ...
That was years ago, and orthographics, of course, are no ...

Balsa Wood Mock-Up Modeling Tutorial
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DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

Depuis mai 2005, le site Fubiz est axé sur les sujets d... de la culture urbaine, des produits tendances et des art... baseline Daily dose of inspiration, une version disponib... avec neuf galeries, un espace collaboratif et de nouveau...
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Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwr... infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention ... common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you ... chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll ... disgust. Bu

For example: Apple’s typography guidelines suggest tha... for a 7:1 contrast ratio. But what ratio, you might ask,... to state the guideline? It’s 5.5:1.
Apple’s guidelines for developers.

Game design is a process of informed iteration, not a fi...
How to write a design log
Start with a concept: At the very bottom of the des ...
Build the prototype: Design logs exist as a supplem ...
... stuff is at the top and the old stuff is

Goals
“Make a break with the past and go in a new direct ...
A well designed concept supports usability and acces ...
Think! Being innovative and creative ensures our sta ...
... Really nice art, acceptance through beauty (sexy!) :-)

if user-centred design principles are missing from proje... because designers don’t want them there in the first place

In his opening keynote at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA ... Zeldman talked about the need to keep content front and ... and the Web design process. Here's my notes from his tal...
Content is really a design problem. Yet the sites we ...

Mark Shanley, an Irish graphic designer, turned his favo... feedback comments” into hilarious posters. Now that’... criticism.

nike_1.jpgImage Courtesy of Michael DiTullo
A continuing issue in industrial design education is whe ...
Instead of setting constraints or limitations to dictate ...

squared circle
An experiment with shape.
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This is a personal project that I did to satisfy my curi ...
... Then it gets playful.

starbucks center of gravity
17 January 2006
starbuckscenterofgravity.jpga world problem finally solv ...

The CEO of Apple — the tech visionary who revolutioniz... computers, the way we listen to music and the way we thi... devices — was worried about the yellow in the second "... Needless to say the problem was fixed, and Gundotra says...
"It was a l

The iPhone that was introduced in 2007 looked nothing li... prototypes designed behind the scenes at Apple HQ.
In fact, we were straight-up shocked by some of the desi ...
All these designs have entered the public domain because ...

This site is devoted to my ongoing thought processes reg... simplicity. I wrote and designed a book entitled The Law...
I have had many suggestions over the recent months with ...
As for the grand challenge of the modern simplicity move ...
I look forw

Tomm Inns quoted at D21 meeting Feb 2008:
"plans are nothing,planning is everyting" Eisenhower

Twenty-five years after the creation of the cell phone, ... Motorola imagined what cell phones might look like in an... years. The Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) team created ... sketches that look beyond what is possible today and ima... possibiliti

Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,” at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr...
The auteur, a film director who both has a distinctive v ...
“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor te ...
Two years a

We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabl...
Artful cabling 1
Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.
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... re this is practical or not, but it LOOKS impressive…)