Category: For UXers


27 mobile guidelines from Apple

21st May

Nice set of guidelines from Apple on mobile design and development.


No excuses – Bootstrap from Twitter

19th April

Passed on to me from the lovely Peter McKenna at Swrve in response to a ghostwritten iQ blog called Mobile Thursdays: Design patterns a-go-go.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

This is a really well executed framework from the team at Twitter, of lightweight HTML, CSS and Javascript built on a 12 column responsive grid (fixed and liquid) available to use for free. There are lots of JS plugins available for you to create dropdowns, popovers, carousels and many more.

You can customise and extend the framework with LESS a powerful lightweight dynamic style sheet language. This allows you to set variables or to perform operations within your code to get uber creative with what you can do or to simply save on repetition and bloated CSS. You can read more about it here http://lesscss.org/ and here on Smashing … Read More »


UXers – this is how design works

10th April

Fellow UXers – learn the effin basics. Use the contents of this site as a starting point ….

http://startupsthisishowdesignworks.com/


Research Studios – Building a Global Experience Language for the BBC

10th April

A pretty comprehensive set of UX guidelines for the BBC produced by Neville Brody and team at Research studios

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel


UK Government Digital Service Design Principles

10th April

A really nicely produced set of guidelines from the UK Government Digital Service Group.

https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples

Start with needs
Do less
Design with data
Do the hard work to make it simple
Iterate. Then iterate again.
Build for inclusion
Understand context
Build digital services, not websites
Be consistent, not uniform
Make things open: it makes things better


UX Design Patterns

10th April

Here is a big old collection design patterns to help you guys figure out how to design a variety of interfaces. Enjoy.



Hailo sailor

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27 mobile guidelines from Apple

Nice set of guidelines from Apple on mobile design and development.