Designing for sharing

One of the best things about the social web is that you can share what you find with other people. Sharing is such a basic…

Web Design for Children

(This was originally written for my old social media blog buzznetworker.com.)

I have seen a lot of people designing blog pages recently that were…

Interface Design: Universal Usability and Accessibility

(This post was originally posted on my old social media blog buzznetworker.com)

Time to dive back into interface design and topic that a lot…

Making It Look Good: Visual Style and Aesthetics

After reading this chapter I began to think about my social media profiles and if I designed my pages appropriately. Then I spent…

User Centered Design

This is from Chapter 7 of “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald A. Norman:

Seven Principles for Transforming Difficult Tasks into Simple Ones

How…

As a Designer You Are Attached To The Project And Aren’t a Regular User

In looking at Chapter Six of The Design of Everyday Things we begin to talk about the issues with being the designer.

One of the…

Logical and Safe Design Is Not Always Considered

I want to look at specific part of chapter 5 in The Design of Everyday Things. This chapter focused on human error, how it happens,…

Different Constraints In Design

In continuing my series on interface design I want to talk about chapter four of The Design of Everyday Things. Now this book isn’t strictly…

Facebook’s Change Is a Lesson in Interface Design

In case you haven’t heard Facebook this week showed off a tabbed design profile that will help keep the ever expanding and out of…

Thinking About the Psychology Behind Design

When we are examining interface design another aspect we have to think about is human nature and the psychology behind how we as…