26 7 / 2012
![I started a new Tumblr today, filled with screenshots from a dusty folder in DropBox. Send over your own terrible error finds to hello [at] grinblo dot com.
errorwallofshame:
“Oops, you stepped on a landmine. By the by, it was fatal. Enjoy the rest of your day.”
These error message boxes are reminiscent of the scene in old war movies where an ill-fated soldier steps on a landmine while advancing across the rice paddy … as soon as he removes his foot from the mine, it will explode, taking some large and useful part of his body with it. Users get this feeling when they see most error message boxes, and they wish they were thousand miles away, back in the real world. — About Face 3
(Thanks, @AnnaTricity)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7rv0hi1d11rcq2b3o1_500.png)
I started a new Tumblr today, filled with screenshots from a dusty folder in DropBox. Send over your own terrible error finds to hello [at] grinblo dot com.
“Oops, you stepped on a landmine. By the by, it was fatal. Enjoy the rest of your day.”
These error message boxes are reminiscent of the scene in old war movies where an ill-fated soldier steps on a landmine while advancing across the rice paddy … as soon as he removes his foot from the mine, it will explode, taking some large and useful part of his body with it. Users get this feeling when they see most error message boxes, and they wish they were thousand miles away, back in the real world. — About Face 3
(Thanks, @AnnaTricity)
06 7 / 2012
15 Things Charles and Ray Eames Teach Us
- Keep good company
- Notice the ordinary
- Preserve the ephemeral
- Design not for the elite but for the masses
- Explain it to a child
- Get lost in the content
- Get to the heart of the matter
- Never tolerate “O.K. anything.”
- Remember your responsibility as a storyteller
- Zoom out
- Switch
- Prototype it
- Pun
- Make design your life… and life, your design.
- Leave something behind.
(Source: nevver)
31 5 / 2012
Content as Conversation
A bit of a different take on our usual post, but nonetheless, this is an insightful analysis of the value of creating excellent content.
takethecrosstown:Site visitors and app users come for the content. Of course, the information architecture (IA) and the site search must make that content easy to find. The design must be attractive and usable. The technology must work. But IA, search, design, and technology are all there to support the content that people come for: the words and images that make up the conversations between your visitors and your site or app.
31 5 / 2012
“Life’s too short to own an ugly pencil. Obsess about the tools you use.”
Source: Notes on Design by Brendan Dawes (FOWD London 2012 Keynote) http://bit.ly/JBjrJt
I saw Brendan speak yesterday at Reasons to Be Appy (by @reasonsfestival) and he was brilliant. This is a set of slides from another one of his presentations.
Twitter: @brendandawes
21 5 / 2012
Whoa :)
Mac OSX - The world map displayed within the Data & Time system preference panel changes with the seasons.
/via John Blackburn
21 5 / 2012
IdeaPaint Makes Walls Into Whiteboards
I want me some of this paint. Idea Paint by Behance can transform any wall into a whiteboard. Really, what else can a girl want?
Buy here http://bit.ly/KNrSOo but beware — you must have a U.S. address to order.
20 5 / 2012
It’s good to see an app creator go so far to understand the context their product will fit into. Instead of taking a pic outside the tube station, going underground and emerging to see your photo loaded, with Instagram you come out of the station to read your friends’ comments. Makes all the difference.
This is how you do mobile UX. (via @DuaneKinsey)
(via uxrules)
17 5 / 2012
Great storytelling (Accordion girls)
Great little window into the lives of people we pass by but not always see.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-accordion-girl,0,6856126.htmlstory
Audio slideshows are one of my favorite things right now. Such economical, rich storytelling in some of these.
