Cut up your magazines and throw them to the winds of change..

In the past most design awards would focus purely on visual aesthetics without much attention paid to the actual usefulness or effectiveness of the design. As a result, gorgeous looking but entirely unusable designs would often win over amazing experiences.   These day...

User Experience designers can play a role in helping to avoid the design and implementation of unsecured systems..

Here’s a heads-up that you might have already noticed - social media buttons are an endangered species. Interactive designer Oliver Reichenstein lit a fire with his blog post Sweep the Sleaze a couple of months ago. Social media buttons are not a social media strategy, even though the...

It's always fun to do a stocktake of current design trends every now and then. Here are some trends I've observed lately.   1. Simple, natural, strong colour schemes If the 2000s were marked by lots of texture and earth tones, we seem to be moving more towards the s...