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Using probes to discover creative innovation

Probes are used as an act that attempt to explore new opportunities and generate innovation. They are edge finding acts that discover, provoke and engage. They help dictate what the future holds and how a company, brand or industry can adapt.

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Brand values, experience principles, and their impact on UI design

The role brand values have when designing a user interface and how they relate to experience principles.

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Web design trend predictions for 2013

For the last two years I've posted my predictions for future web design trends. Here's my 2013 list.

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Rhetoric in visual communication

Rhetoric was originally concerned with writing or speech, used for effect rather than necessity, in order to impress or persuade the reader. Rhetoric can be applied to visual communication to create the same effect.

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Best practice for responsive and adaptive web design

Responsive is a term thrown around in meetings and often misinterpreted. However, there is a need to create websites that scale, respond and even adapt, to different platforms -- the later often called adaptive design. This post features a growing list of considerations and tools for creating a digital visual language that can do this.

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Eurogamer Expo 2012

A report on the Eurogamer Expo last weekend in London, and my pick of the best games on show.

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Evolving interactive design from skeuomorphism

Is the classic Apple style of replicating real world objects in UI design preventing innovation? Should all designers follow Microsoft's direction with Windows 8? Skeuomorphism is a hot topic in digital design at the moment, find out what it is and my opinions on it.

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Three inspiring design thoughts for innovation

A summary of inspiring trends in interface design -- touching on the future of UI design. Created from influences over the past year including previous posts.

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The process and evaluation of an interactive visual language

Documenting my design process for creating interactive visual languages as well as a few key questions I use to evaluate the language -- to ensure it's likely to work once implemented.

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Web design trend predictions for 2012

A year ago I posted web design trends for 2011, many of which evolved to different extends throughout the year and will continue this year. So here are my 2012 predictions for trends in visual design for the web.

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Designing outside the rectangle

New UI design opportunities are becoming available as we adopt 3D technologies, augmented reality and gesture based control. Screens will evolve from rectangles that we look through, in to destinations we can move in to. While augmented reality enables the user interface to exist along side the real world.

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The future of web and UI design

Web designers have historically had to work within a tight set of restrictions. Computer's were restricted to 256 colours, with only 216 consistent across Macs and PCs; Keyboards and mice were the only input devices used for navigation, and; Users generally only accessed content sitting at a desk -- either at work or home with a monitor. All of those restrictions no longer apply.

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