October Blue a small design and communications firm

Posted
11 July 2011 @ 5am

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Design

The Design Dilemma

Designers have a special way of seeing the world. Their ignorance of specialized content areas is their strength: they are not trapped by traditional thinking, they can apply new insights, new metaphors. The designer utilizes great representational skills along with a human-centered point of view. No other discipline trains its practitioners with this particular combination [...]


Don’t make me think

All design ought to be to be consistent and clear, but all the more when it comes to error handling. The reason is simple and two-fold: errors are both unexpected and disruptive. As such it’s critical that designers curb potentially agitating interruptions with accurately descriptive error messages, immediately refocusing the user on the problem, and [...]