UI Design
WDQ allows you to personally conduct usability tests on websites and computer applications.
Use eight complementary methodologies to research diversified aspects of your product.
Light Comes From the Sky
Shadows are invaluable cues in telling the human brain what user interface elements we’re looking at.
Black and white first
Designing in grayscale before adding color simplifies the most complex element of visual design– and forces you to focus on spacing and laying out elements.
Double your whitespace
To make UI that looks designed, add a lot of breathing room.
Methods of overlaying text
There are only a few ways of reliably and beautifully overlaying text on images. Here are five— and a bonus method.
Make text pop and un-pop
Styling text to look beautiful and appropriate is often a matter of styling it in contrasting ways— for instance, larger but lighter.
Only use good fonts
Some fonts are good. Use them.
Steal like an artist
The first time I sat down to try and design some app element— a button, a table, a chart, a popup, whatever— was the first time I realized how little I knew about how to make that element look good.