gestalt | Michael Gaigg: Über UI/UX Design

14Aug0

Highlights of Week 32/2011

50+ PSD UI Web design elements (by Cameron Chapman)
How to Develop Your Website’s Tone of Voice (by Ailsa Partridge)
25 jQuery image galleries and slideshow plugins (by Cameron Chapman)
What’s the difference between a Heuristic Evaluation and a Cognitive Walkthrough? (by Jeff Sauro) - great description and overview together with a "What HE & CW have in common" section
What’s new for designers – Aug 2011 (by Cameron Chapman)
40 Absolutely Brilliant Billboard Ads! (by Alvaris Falcon) - yes, simply brilliant, take 1 or 2 minutes and enjoy
Your Meetings Suck (by Mitch Joel) - Solution: "a meeting cannot exist without a decision to support it that has already been made"
30 Beautiful Clean and Simple Web Designs for Inspiration (by Jacob Gube) - inspiration is always welcome, right?
Strengthening behavioral cues in UX web design with Gestalt principles (by Shell Grenier) - all of reality is experienced and organized perceptually in the simplest and most stable manner possible, web design can utilize this principle

19Sep0

Using Power Structure and Gestalt for Visual Hierarchy (by Shawn Borsky) - ...success is more than just what you see: it’s in the planning, structure, approach, and execution.
A Comprehensive Guide Inside Your (by Alexander Dawson) - talking about SEO... this is a fine summary useful for any website developer.
20+ New Apps and Websites for Designers Sep. 2010 (by Cameron Chapman) - is this really happening? Hard to keep up with all the good stuff...
Picking the Right Tool for your Remote User Testing (by Matt Milosavljevic) - Matt mentions some really useful links in here.
Helvetica Joins the Web Font Revolution (by Christina Warren) - get 2000 fonts and 25k page views for free - nice for most smaller projects.
10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies (by Cameron Chapman) - essential read!! Go and check it out, will help you argue in your next design discussion!

Michael Gaigg is Lead UI Engineer in Esri's Professional Services Division.

He has been designing map application for over 10 years and can't stop thinking about improving them.

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