Sex and Design Axioms 4.7 http://spkr8.com/t/1544

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Sex and Design Axioms describes the minimal rule set for designing interfaces: the foundational concepts that are required knowledge for designers and engineers to create usable and elegant interfaces.

A production stratification has evolved into stove-piped disciplines from information architecture to user experience to interaction design to usability to graphic design much to the detriment of designers. Emerging is the Renaissance interface designer: a technically savvy artist that’s fluent in typography, color theory, composition, layout, usability, interaction design, and code.

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Kern_square Patrick Haney, 07 Oct 07:19 PM

Juhan's presentation for Refresh Boston was fantastic. Not only were his slides well put together and informative, but there were plenty of takeaways for the audience including some of my favorites:

  • Fake data = fake design (don't use "lorem ipsum", put in the details)
  • Less ink, more bang (data is more important than the ink that makes it pretty)
  • Let data scream (like staging a scene in theatre, and ruthlessly edited, data should be 85% of the screen)
  • Go BIG (print out a giant to-do list that you can't avoid, make your printed comps huge so the errors are huge as well)

I also really enjoyed his points on business card and name tag design. A lot of people, including those that run conferences and social events, could learn something from Visual Angle Formula and data hierarchy mentioned in Juhan's presentation.

Juhan is a very engaging speaker and there was never a lull in his conversation with the audience, however there were a few times when he skipped quickly through some slides that I felt the crowd might've wanted to spend more than a second looking at. That said, Sex and Design Axioms was fantastic and I left with a lot of good ideas and some inspiration as well.

Avatar-missing-icon-03 jimb12345, 08 Sep 05:14 AM

I think the layout is so important in this. The design will be always be good this way. Thanks for the tips. accutane attorneys

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Time & Location

October 6, 2009 — 07:00 PM
Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (Map It)

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Refresh Boston (31 talks)