Everyone uses them: Green, yellow (or orange), and red. We use them in data visualization, we use them in buttons, we color text and icons with them and put them into alerts.
What we’re reading
To help us remain up to date on goings on in the digital design and technology industry we read A LOT here at Every Interaction. We tweet most of the articles we read, but we also keep a log of the interesting posts we find in this blog – What we‘re reading.
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The trick that makes you overspend
When you buy a cup of coffee, you might have noticed that of the three size options – small, medium and large – the medium-sized serving often costs almost as much as the large. Given the apparent bargain, have you…
Design tools are holding us back
They’ve never been faster. They’ve never had more UI design-centric features. They’ve never enabled more effective collaboration. But design tools are still holding us back. Our tools are still using methods, workflows, and features from graphic and visual design.
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
A new version of Slack is rolling out for our desktop customers, built from the ground up to be faster, more efficient, and easier to work on.
Contextualizing User Action
How we tackle problems, Suchman argues, is inherently tied to the context we find ourselves in moment by moment. And, the actions that we take in those moments are situated to what is possible and useful to get the desired…
The Dreaded Boolean Search
When users start making use of Boolean search it is a bit like Pandora and that pesky box — as in it is a source of potential unforeseen trouble. Users have no idea what they are getting into until they…
Five factors of meaningful design
In the past decades, good interaction between humans and computers has developed to include usability, satisfaction, and other positive emotions, among others. Our understanding of good interaction is still evolving.
Optical Effects in User Interfaces: An Illustrated Guide
Our eyes are weird and often mislead us. But if you know the peculiarities of human vision, you can construct better designs. Not only do type designers utilize optical tricks for creating readable and well-balanced fonts, but it’s also helpful…
Design Ping Pong
Every designer has at some point found themselves nudging elements around on screen for an hour, only to find themselves right back where they started.
Introducing Mercury OS
A speculative vision of the operating system, driven by humane design principles.