12 of the Year's Best Ideas in Interface Design
Above, we’ve collected some of the year’s cleverest, clearest, and most creative UIs. Enjoy!
The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
Above, we’ve collected some of the year’s cleverest, clearest, and most creative UIs. Enjoy!
Steve Jobs would rather die than release any new product that wasn’t a step-wise improvement over everything that existed before. That’s the mentality of someone that cares about whether people use a product. It’s the mentality of a designer. Google’s mentality is that of an engineer, content to labor over one cool feature at the expense of creating any overarching value.
The user is king. It’s a phrase that’s repeated over and over again as a mantra: Companies must become user-centric. But there’s a problem: It doesn’t work. Here’s the truth: Great brands lead users, not the other way around.
What if the bot is annoying or tedious to talk to? In conversational UIs, personality is the new UX.
Take a look at the Internet’s reaction to Go, and you’ll see why this game is different. I think Pokémon Go is going to prove out to be the first, widely adopted implementation of augmented reality.
Pantone has selected a decidedly optimistic new color of the year: 2017 will be the year of Greenery
We couldn’t control the code of Reddit’s algorithms. But we still wanted to influence how that system works
If hotels tested rooms on groups of consumers who were drunk, or stressed, or deprived of sleep for twenty-four hours, I’m certain they’d rethink everything.
Hulu did away with the grid setup on its home screen. Instead, it serves up viewers a personalized assortment of shows–a product of user-set preferences and a machine-learning algorithm.