So here we go into summer’s creative jam and designers’ vacation! Get creative inspiration from your summer activities — here are some starters to get your creative juices flowing :
- First look: two new digital magazines make unusual screenshot and icon choices
- Positive computing: technology for wellbeing and human potential
- 15 Practical Design Tweaks For Your Website In 2015
- 7 Tips for Creating Successful Infographics
- First Principles of Interaction Design
- 5 Ways to Find Creative Inspiration
So here we go into summer’s creative jam and designers’ vacation! Get creative inspiration from your summer activities — here are some starters to get your creative juices flowing :
- First look: two new digital magazines make unusual screenshot and icon choices
- Positive computing: technology for wellbeing and human potential
- 15 Practical Design Tweaks For Your Website In 2015
- 7 Tips for Creating Successful Infographics
- First Principles of Interaction Design
- 5 Ways to Find Creative Inspiration
5 Ways to Find Creative Inspiration
These are almost exactly like some of my advices for creative inspiration from my “Graphic Design” and “Creative Layout Techniques” seminars from the 1990s. Except I had ten. Roberto Blake returns to remind us all of these when he writes :
Finding inspiration is one of the most challenging things that designers and artists have to do, in both personal and professional work. Even for experienced designers, this challenge is no less frustrating, since it can be hard to come up with ideas that feel fresh and original after you created a large body of work. Here are some ways to overcome your creative blocks and not become discouraged.
Finding inspiration is one of the most challenging things that designers and artists have to do, in both personal and professional work. Even for experienced designers, this challenge is no less frustrating, since it can be hard to come up with ideas that feel fresh and original after you created a large body of work. Here are some ways to overcome your creative blocks and not become discouraged. 
Full story : Roberto Blake | creativepro.com
Positive computing: technology for wellbeing and human potential
The design of human-computer systems used to focus upon the negative, the breakdowns that confused and confounded people. Now it is time to move to the next level, to focus upon the positive, systems that are enjoyable and pleasurable.
We need systems that delight as well as inform, systems that create pleasure along with useful function. We need systems that are resilient, that promote control, understanding, and sometimes just plain pleasure. The design field has responded by examining the role of emotions and pleasure in design. We need to move these findings into mainstream computing. Full story : Don Norman: Designing For People
7 Tips for Creating Successful Infographics
Mitt Ray is the founder and CEO of Social Marketing Writing, and while this is a pretty good read. We can tell his age by his phrase : “I used Viraltag years ago when it was introduced. Back then it was known as Pingraphy and you could only use it to schedule pins on Pinterest.” . . . “Years ago” should mean twenty years or more … except twenty years ago, Mitt was in a stroller and nobody ever heard of any of this. But read it anyway . . . . it’s important for anyone in graphics, or the creative online world! Mitt writes :
Companies like to incorporate infographics into their content marketing strategy because they bring powerful results. Web traffic of publishers who publish infographics grows by an average of 12% more than those who do not. Visual content is powerful and consumers find it more engaging than mere text because 65 percent of people are visual learners.
So how do you create great infographics that will captivate your audience and spread the word about your brand? Full story : http://socialmarketingwriting.com
NEXT : Web Tweaks, Digital Magaiznes and Ask Tog . . .
First look: two new digital magazines make unusual screenshot and icon choices
D.B. Hebbard writes for ‘Talking New Media’ and takes a look at methods in the mag-to-web publishing gig. Good piece, with good visuals, and NO SPAM is injected into the article… BRAVO! Hebbard writes ::
The problem, as digital publishers know full well, is that many – maybe most – publishers don’t see digital editions as a separate, new product, but simply as an extension of their print product. Full story : www.talkingnewmedia.com
15 Practical Design Tweaks For Your Website In 2015
What’s funny about this piece is the site where it appears — Forbes — just about breaks most of the rules in the article. These are known, tried and true axioms about web design that have floated around since I was doing Web Design seminars in the 1990s. . . . but it’s always nice to see a fresh, young, face keeping them alive . . .
Tomas Laurinavicius writes :
Full story : Tomas Laurinavicius – entrepreneur, Web designer and Editor-in-Chief at Despreneur.com.
First Principles of Interaction Design
Bruce Tognazzini does an extraordinary job on this essay — I’m calling this required reading for all visual communicators! It’s easy to read and spam-free. I suggest you print it, bind it and take it along. You’ll want this reference for sure!
The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments, the web, mobile devices, wearables, or Internet-connected smart devices.
Effective interfaces are visually apparent and forgiving, instilling in their users a sense of control. Users quickly see the breadth of their options, grasp how to achieve their goals, and can settle down to do their work. Effective interfaces do not concern the user with the inner workings of the system. Work is carefully and continuously saved, with full option for the user to undo any activity at any time. Effective applications and services perform a maximum of work, while requiring a minimum of information from users. Full story : Bruce Tognazzini — asktog.com
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