Tag Archives: Research
User interface design in video games
Games are introducing innovative UI elements that exist within the game world. After reading through a Thesis and a few articles on game interface design I examine the different types of UI elements, separating them in to categories and providing examples of their implementation.
Designers & consumerism
The evolution of graphic design over the past 100 years from purely aesthetics to meeting functional, cultural, social and production requirements has helped to develop the change and growth of consumerism.
Classic information design
Here’s a few beautiful older interfaces in the form of gauges, switches and buttons that I’ve come across while undertaking some preliminary research for an upcoming project. There aren’t many interfaces in production now that reach this level of craftsmanship.
JVC HR-3300 (1976)
Jaeger Le Coultre compass camera (1930s)
Corvette (1958)
Nakamichi 700 Tri Tracer tape deck (1973)
Sinclair wrist calculator (1977)
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End of 2D interface elements?
I‘ve been looking at ideas based around 3D information systems recently, as research for a project I might be working on this month. While I haven’t finished researching, one of the topics that has got me interested is the redundancy of interactive elements such as icons and scroll bars when navigating a 3D space. In [...]
Creative art of presentations