There are times that I feel I suffer from mild ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), especially when I’m navigating through Chrome on my smart phone or browsing for something in my tablet or laptop. Does the following symptoms ring a bell? Be easily distracted, miss details, frequently switch from one activity to another, become bored easily,...
A-12 in San Diego, California Every once in awhile you simply stop & marvel at some designs—I did exactly that on my recent trip to San Diego when coming face-to-face with this amazing piece of design & engineering called the A-12 Blackbird, the predecessor to the devastating Stealth Bomber.The A-12’s design brief to the designers...
Illustration credit: Phyliss Gilbert In the many years I’ve been working in the digital media industry I kept seeing recurring patterns–whether it be in a board room as a project manager or as a freelance designer, it was the same potential slow-train wreck I can foresee. Be it from your manager or the client, it...
The big news this year in 2012 was Apple suing Samsung for ripping off its iPhone & iPad devices. This is intriguing for designers.Apple won the case in the US claiming Samsung had copied much of its User Interface designs – this brought into the light that GUI can indeed be patented contrary to many...
User Experience design, or UX— a common term these days in the industry of app/web design. The term was coined by Don Norman, an academic & author of key UX design books such as “The Design of Every Day Things”. He came up with the term while serving as a VP at Apple. He comments:...
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