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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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Apart from the 3D view the maps now highlight buildings, the un-occupied ground is yellow and parks have a noise texture to them. There's also a series of icons representing restaurants, cafes, bars and petrol stations etc.

Visual design changes in the new iOS 6

There are a lot of recent reviews that highlight new features in iOS 6.0. I'm just as interested in their visual design decisions too. I seem to have too many iOS devices at the moment, but it's given me the opportunity to compare iOS 6 with iOS 5 side by side below, iOS 5 on the left and iOS 6 on the right.

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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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Windows metro visual language applied to the Xbox dashboard

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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International gestural language

Mobile devices and touch screen computers have started to define and explore an international gesture language, what happens with whole-body gestural languages that are being used with technology such as the Microsoft Kinect sensor?

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Blending physical with digital interactions

These iPhone applications are blurring the lines between traditional and digital interactions and mediums -- creating an interesting contrast between old and new. They challenging the need to simply use the physical interactions that are packaged with the medium's physical properties.

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