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- Hierarchy - Design’s pecking order - Forum One: User Experience & Design Blog
Hierarchy. Strong, consistent visual hierarchy is key to a quality design.Q : What is visual hierarchy?A : Important elements have the most emphasis. Least important elements have the least emphasis. So, a user’s eye should move around the page from your most important content to your least important content.Q : Ok…I still don’t understand. How do you measure the emphasis of a single design element?A : There are a couple of design principles that we can use to create more or less emphasis.Hierarchy - Design’s pecking order - Forum One: User Experience & Design Blog
- blink design library: Persistent Message
The folks at 37 signals use a persistent message at the top of Backpack pages to alert users to new features (in the example below, the message is used to announce their affiliate program)
- That design is money! - physical interface
Wells Fargo hired Pentagram in the fall of 2005 to begin work on a new user interface for their ATMs. Wells Fargo was in the process of upgrading their ATMs with touchscreen monitors. This was a relatively slow process, since there are about 7,000 ATMs in the field, and any upgrades are expensive. But with the vast majority to be converted during 2007, this was the perfect time to create a fresh UI that would fully utilize the touchscreen capability.
- Ajaxian » Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit 1.0
The folks at Y!DN have released Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit 1.0, which contains a full set of stencils that cover Web components in various states