Design for Readability
Have we designed ourselves into a box? Content Strategist Matt Herron explains the evolution of the “standard” content display model as well as what designers can do to improve their reader’s experience.
Posts about “Visual design”
Comics and UX, Part 2: Flow and Content
In the first part of this series, Rachel Nabors provided readers with ample techniques to improve their craft. In this, final article, Rachel introduces flow and real-world examples to better explain how affects both our medium and our message.
Comics and UX, Part 1: Cross-disciplinary Techniques
As with websites so with comics: there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Follow along as Rachel Nabors shares techniques from the world of comics to better plan, assess, and improve the experience of a website.
Effective Presentation of a Website’s Navigation
Every website has it, but not every website does it well. Andy Montgomery introduces two concepts – and provides dozens of examples – towards effective navigation design.
Design Lessons from Well Designed Album Covers
Electronic musician and new UX Booth contributor Oleg Mokhov takes readers through a series of well-designed album art and shows what the clever designer can learn from them.
Decoupling Usability and Visuals
Usability and visual design are two areas that are heavily dependent on each other. They affect each other dramatically and each requires an understanding of how people will use and visualize the content. Pulling them apart, where possible, is a great way to understand how they impact the overall design and reduce the time and energy wasted in your creative process.
Mashable Redesign: What Draws Attention?
Mashable made a fresh start of the new year by launching a redesign. The intention of which was to put more focus on the stories, remove clutter, and to divide the content into sections. Most readers responded positively. But our team wanted to answer a more targeted question: What are the most attention-grabbing changes in Mashable’s new design? In this article we analyze user feedback and exhibit our results.
Site Redesign Case Study: Tutorial9.net
Today, I’d like to share some visual design changes made on another blog that vastly improved usability. While a solution on one site may not work perfectly for another, there are certainly things to be learned from others success!
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