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Day 8: Color and Type
The most interesting topic I have mentioned so far is the psychology of color. They looked at me like I was magic when I said people often use the color blue to give users a sense of trust and...
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Day 9: Branding and Design Guide
The Jongo Love style There are several aspects to the Shujaaz experience that is being designed by a few different people, who all seem to have different styles. There is the Shujaaz comic book, the...
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I came to Kenya and I wasn’t smart enough to look up a few basic words before I arrived. Greetings are important in East Africa and you don’t launch into a conversation or even ask a question without...
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Gropius said, “manual experience of materials is essential to the student of design- experience at first confined to free experiment and then extended to the practical workshop”. While this is true,...
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Color is a critical part of design—whether your project is destined for print, web, video or other media. A clear understanding of color theory and practical applications is the key to using color with...
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“No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.” – William Blake Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together in an intersection of common goals —...
View ArticleExperience Design
While everything, technically, is an experience of some sort, there is something important and special to many experiences that make them worth discussing. In particular, the elements that contribute...
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. –Mark Twain Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, preferences or understanding, and may involve synthesizing different...
View ArticleTypography on the web
The use of interesting typography on the web is like a huge breath of fresh air to me, and thankfully it’s an area going through rapid and constant evolvement. I’m so used to the same three typefaces...
View ArticleFuture Directions for Tactile Feedback
A variety of devices currently on the market provide simple forms of touch feedback, but none is an unqualified success – they all lack some aspect of physical experience, a correspondence with the way...
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