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Now and Later User Experience Design
As a child, I was baffled by my parents' reluctance to feed me candy at mealtime. Candy made me happy. Didn't they value my happiness?Of course they did, but like most parents, they knew that to make...
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Designing for Microphones
We recently launched Shure Design Studio, a tool that lets anyone create custom microphone handle designs. Designing a fun, usable UI for this project was a blast. Possibly even more fun: the project...
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Easy Textures with CSS Masks
We recently worked with The Nature Conservancy on a microsite and campaign strategy to promote a new PBS series, “EARTH A New Wild.” One small detail of the overall design language was a gritty, earthy...
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Designing Experience Layers
Yesterday afternoon, I posted a little jab at Vine. What you see in that screenshot is a Vine video page completely devoid of usable content owing to a JavaScript error. I’m attempting a pretty typical...
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Testing Accordion Menu Designs & Iconography
Figure 1- Animated gif of 7 landing page designs. Each frame represents a separate test conducted with 20 participants.Among UI patterns, the accordion menu is a workhorse. Its ability to collapse long...
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A Skip Link Primer
Of all the accessibility enhancements that can be made to a page, adding a "skip to content" link is one of the easier wins. These links allow keyboard-only (non-mouse) users to quickly jump to the...
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Beyond Empathy: Approaching a New Career in UX
So you're starting a career in UX. You’re empathetic, detail-oriented, and a stellar organizer to boot, and you want to combine these skills into a career. Welcome, New UX Designer! We’re so happy to...
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Color Contrast for Better Readability
When you create color palettes for your web design projects, are you testing the color combinations for contrast? If you're not, you might not be considering the eventual readability of the design and...
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Responsive Logos, Part 1: Tips for Adapting Logos for Small Screens
From what I’ve seen, logos typically receive the short end of the stick when it comes to responsive web design practices. Take a look through responsive galleries, and you’ll see that, in most...
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Responsive Logos, Part 2: Making Logos Truly Responsive with Inline SVG
In Responsive Logos - Part 1, I made the case that applying responsive design thinking to logos and allowing for subtle flexibility can actually support and enhance a brand’s identity. Several tips...
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Illustrating for Online: Know Lupus
Illustration is often a big aspect of our work as designers. More and more illustrations – big and small, elaborate or simple, as primary features or supporting roles – are seamlessly integrated into...
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Illustrating for Online: Find Your Inner Animal
It's time for yet another inside look at the thinking, process, and work that went into some of our illustration work at Viget! This time I'll be diving into the WWF quiz, Find Your Inner AnimalFind...
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From Professional Development to Product Development
There are many things to love about working at Viget, but one thing has stuck out to me as especially valuable and unique: professional development.Professional development is a category that every...
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How to Hold a Remote Design Studio
A design studio is a group brainstorming session where participants sketch, share, and iterate in order to explore various design directions and come up with new ideas.Usually, design studios are held...
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Interactive WCAG
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is an invaluable resource for developing accessible websites, and necessary if those sites need to conform to a specific accessibility level. But for...
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Now and Later User Experience Design
As a child, I was baffled by my parents' reluctance to feed me candy at mealtime. Candy made me happy. Didn't they value my happiness?Of course they did, but like most parents, they knew that to make...
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Designing for Microphones
We recently launched Shure Design Studio, a tool that lets anyone create custom microphone handle designs. Designing a fun, usable UI for this project was a blast. Possibly even more fun: the project...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Easy Textures with CSS Masks
We recently worked with The Nature Conservancy on a microsite and campaign strategy to promote a new PBS series, “EARTH A New Wild.” One small detail of the overall design language was a gritty, earthy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Designing Experience Layers
Yesterday afternoon, I posted a little jab at Vine. What you see in that screenshot is a Vine video page completely devoid of usable content owing to a JavaScript error. I’m attempting a pretty typical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Testing Accordion Menu Designs & Iconography
Figure 1- Animated gif of 7 landing page designs. Each frame represents a separate test conducted with 20 participants.Among UI patterns, the accordion menu is a workhorse. Its ability to collapse long...
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