Stephen P. Anderson gave a great talk tonight to the NY Chapter of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). He spoke about using psychology to achieve great user interface and design. He showed a ton of examples of great design, analyzed why it worked, then spoke about the psychology behind it. He sells a card deck [...]

5 lessons learned in iPad app. design per Jennifer Brook, Info. Architect, NY Times, speaking at Interaction Design Assn. yesterday: 1. Start Simple There is an inverse relationship between feature count and user satisfaction. Start simple, evolve and improve over time. “Applications should do one or two things really, really well,” she said. The more [...]

Fred Brooks, computer industry rockstar, regaled 200 geek disciples at Etsy last night with stories about why team design doesn’t work. Brooks wrote a classic book called The Mythical Man-Month about how putting more engineers on a project slows it down paradoxically. In his new book, The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist, [...]

At TEDxNY, we discussed William McDonough’s talk on cradle to cradle design. Hope you can join us next week – see http://tedxnewyork.blogspot.com/. The new Grey offices are amazing – open workspaces designed for collaboration – looks like an industrial-designed coffee bar. They reviewed this old talk in light of the COP15 (2009 United Nations Climate [...]

Thanks to SEO star Shimon Sandler for tweeting this article on Web Design Trends for 2010 from Web Design Ledger. Excerpts below. See full article at http://webdesignledger.com/tips/web-design-trends-for-2010. I want to know what are the best trends you are seeing? 1. Oversized Logos/ Headers Splash pages are so yesterday. To make an unforgettable impression on the [...]