January 2010 Archive:

Expanding the Web’s visual vocabulary

by Erik January 14, 2010 • 12:21 pm • Comments (3)

The following article was originally included in the October 2009 issue of our OliveNotes newsletter, but we feel like the content is worth sharing with non-subscribers as well, so we’re republishing it here in its entirety. We’ve also included a brief postscript to update a few aspects of the article. As always, please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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Designing a Web app UI, part 2: The Concepts

by Tom January 4, 2010 • 04:16 pm • Comments (0)



Quite a while back, I shared some insight into a project where we were designing the UI for a soon-to-be-released Web app. Now we’ll take a look at the concepts we presented the client and the feedback they provided. As before, the client and project are held in confidence. Here’s a look at our first round:

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