Archiv der Kategorie: Design/UI

➠ Designers vs Coding

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Good design and good markup provide structure to content. Good markup is a fundamental part of good design: beautiful on the inside, beautiful on the outside. HTML and CSS give another venue to provide structure to content in the native language of the web, and learning these guides decisions by surfacing the affordances of the medium. Design decisions are affected by both the content and the format, like how a sculptor would make different decisions if she were working with clay rather than marble.

Warum Designer für Internet-Dinge HTML und CSS können sollten.

➠ The New Windows Explorer UI

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I don’t know I like this UI yet or not, but what I do like is that Microsoft doesn’t seem to care about what their competitors, e.g. Apple, are doing. They’ve got their own research, their own ideas and their own views on how their UI should be implemented. They’re not cloning their competitors or what’s been done before, but going in a direction they’ve set for themselves. Apple users may laugh at this new UI thinking it’s a cluttered mess, but at the end of the day this is a different approach to solving the same problem—it’s a utilitarian UI that doesn’t care much about minimalism.

Ein wirklich guter, objektiver und daher lesenswerter Artikel über das Design zum neuen Explorer UI. Ich bin auch kein Fan vom so genannten Ribbon-Design, aber ich kenne durchaus Menschen die es mögen und ich verstehe die Idee dahinter. Dennoch: schön ist es nicht.