When our touchscreen designers are between project assignments, they’re busy making pots. Yes, pots. Pots, in our case, are simple interface design concepts. We started calling them pots after reading about an interesting experiment mentioned in the book “Art & Fear” by David Bayles and Ted Orland. Briefly, here’s …
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a user interface needs real words to clearly indicate what the user needs to do. The words we choose are as important as, if not more important than, the graphics that frame them. Here are four simple rules you can apply to instantly improve the usability of your …
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Designing a touchscreen interface can take a lot of time and hard work. Then you put it on the touchscreen and the colors shift and band. Yuck. Shifting is where the color on the touchscreen is different from the intended color. Banding is where you see abrupt changes between shades of the same color instead of a nice …
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We created a tutorial for our friends over at Psdtuts+ titled “How to Make a Menu Interface for a Fantasy Themed iPhone Game”. Psdtuts+ is a Photoshop tutorial site that receives over 1.2 million monthly visitors and publishes some of the best tutorials on the net. We are honored that they asked us to create something …
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The Ozone Icon Set is a gorgeous photo-realistic set that supplies you with a large variety of room and location icons for use in your projects. This much-requested set provides great touchable targets and adds color and visual cues for ease of use. …
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When you’re designing a touchscreen interface in Photoshop, what you see onscreen is often a very different size than the way it will actually appear on the touchscreen display. This is problematic when you’re trying to size and space all the elements of a user-friendly interface. Fortunately, there is …
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