An older (2009) but still nice to read case study on portfolio websites (especially design portfolios): Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns and Current Practices – Smashing Magazine How does the typical portfolio site look? Prototypical portfolio site: light design, with neutral, calm colors in a horizontally centered layouts with two to three columns and a simple …
Category Archives: guidelines
Standards: when there is no obvious best choice
On which side of the road should we drive? Although I probably could make up an argument for either side based on the asymmetry of the brain’s hemispheres, this would be little convincing. Driving on the right is not safer (or less safe) than driving on the left. But it is pretty obvious that randomly …
Apple and Microsoft interface guidelines
Today I found some time to look at the Apple Human Interface Guidelines for Mac OS X. Microsoft’s latest guidelines are the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines (still “preliminary documentation” though). A few thoughts: The Vista guidelines are quite technology-driven sometimes, top rule number one is “Use the Aero Theme and System Font (Segoe UI)” …