Did you ever wonder what are the consequences of fun, when correctly made use of? The result could completely turn the tide of the project.
Lorem ipsum is an enigmatic model text that designers and developers use in wireframes, mockups, prototypes, or the app in progress. It’s meant to illustrate the visual form of the document when the final copy is in the making.
But also, it’s a sickness of the world of design and web development. Learn why.
I have a lot of helpful tools stored in many different collections, among others an abysmal Pinterest catalog with a very generic label: “Design.“ While saving pins is fairly straightforward, searching for the exact item might be quite challenging. All tools from the same category have similar names and keywords; color tools’ names are usually variations of “color“ or “palette.“
I used to identify my favorite color system tool by appearance, but ColorBox changed the interface, leaving me helpless for a while. I decided to convert my frustration into a side project — a flat list of color tools with screenshots and a list of features as several of them have some unique ones. Feel free to search this list and use the tools to color the world!
The whole product experience is a cumulative effort of diverse project roles and talents, not a ’rockstar soloist.’ Even though some of them might represent two opposite ends of a spectrum – like designers and developers – they have more in common than one might expect.
Furthermore, they can benefit from both opening up to each other’s perspectives even more and following the same common principles for better teamwork. With that in mind, here are some insights to help improve designer-developer relationships, and hence better product design.
Good design is invisible and dateless. It does not have to prove anything to anyone. Perhaps it is worth rising above the Western chaos to look at the seven principles of Zen aesthetics and search for universal, timeless values that can be transferred to software engineering.
Say hello to MARY – an open-source, multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis platform written in Java! Our paths crossed by the courtesy of a friend from one of the Vanderbilt University research teams.
It’s an adventure story about a user interface, its improvements and a path to make everyone’s experience better. Filled with lovely pictures of Mary growing up to become a full-fledged research tool.
