May 10, 2012

Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to represent various UI elements. Many of us cannot imagine life without them. There are, however, reasons to consider moving to the cloud to do interaction design. In...

May 3, 2012

A few weeks ago, I was quite surprised when I saw the pavement quickly approaching while I was out for a walk. Laying there stunned, I soon realized what had happened: I fell. Ouch. B-minus. I normally try to be as attentive as possible, but this time a big crack in the pavement caught my shoe and threw me completely off...

Apr 3, 2012

The practice of using a large letter to mark the start of a text has been around for almost two thousand years. Illustrated caps increased usability by marking important passages and guiding readers through the text. Unlike their historic counterparts, drop caps on the Web don’t add value in terms of usability or readability—and they are hard for Web...

In today’s world of commerce, a website design is imperative for any business. Although you don’t need to hire a local web design company to build your website, because everything will be done online and digitally anyway, some small business owners prefer to work with a local web design company. Here are five tips for choosing a local web designer or...

The Academy of Art University is one of the most popular video game design schools that budding computer video game designers can attend, in order to learn about video game design so that they can follow a professional video game designer career. The Academy of Art University, which was previously called and known as the Academy of Art College, is currently...