Tag: designer

  • 8 reasons why you should use sidebar as navigation

    8 reasons why you should use sidebar as navigation

    Why is this new style of popular navigation winning hands down against old-fashioned navigation methods? Well, here’s my take on why, in eight easy sound bites.

  • 10 considerations when designing for mobile

    This is the first 10 steps to take your mobile design skills to the next level  Watch the animated version here When designing for the desktop you can consider the end-user environment, when designing for print you can picture where the magazine will be read but when design for mobile the end-user scenarios are so…

  • Branding an iPad Casino App

    Branding an iPad Casino App

    1.0 Aims and Objectives To produce the best-in-class iPad and iPhone App for playing slots and table games. Recently I was involved in conceptualise and leading the UI for a iOS casino App for both iPhone and iPad.  I’m not going to detail all design decisions here but walk you through my perspective on why branding for this product…

  • Design habits – Tip your hat to your design heroes

    TLDR: Inspired by design masters, this can aide your creative process: User first through to competition analysis, (innovation nit imitation), tofamiliarity and then focus on value then finally beautiful execution Contents As a junior designer, way back when, I visited our local design museum (I studied in London, UK, so my local design museum was…

  • Best practice for your on-boarding experience

    Best practice for your on-boarding experience

    As a guided experience for new users simplifying your onboarding to prevent that overwhelmed feeling. Test concepts with “Skip”,”Tell me later” and swipe features to keep the process engaging yet unobstructive. Allow users a “sense of discovery” without making them feel lost with easy-to-digest content. Use transparent overlays or more interactive swipe-through modals and take…