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Follow-Up: DC Comics - Brand New

I’m warming up to the new logo now seeing how the design can be extended. What do you think?

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RoiCarthy.com: It's NOT All About the UX. Except It's ALL About the UX.

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UXRecently one of my partners received an email from an entrepreneur saying he chose to reach out to him because, and I’m paraphrasing, ‘Roi puts too much emphasis on assessing companies based on the UX’.

So first off, that’s factually incorrect. Second off, that’s absolutely right. Allow me to…

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The Fundamental Elements of Design (by Erica Gorochow)

Here’s a really well done video about design. I kinda want to show everyone who thinks they are a designer, that aren’t, this and see if they know about half of these fundamentals.

(via Devour)

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Then and Now: The Evolution of Cereal Mascots

Maybe I’m just getting old, but I prefer the original character models far better.

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Peter Saville on his classic Joy Division and New Order artwork

You gotta love Peter Saville’s album covers for New Order. I swear his design have help to design an emotion or feeling I feel about each one of these albums.

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Sweating the Small Stuff in UX Design

A friend of mine who’s just getting into UX design recently emailed me this question:

When you have a pull-down menu which displays a list of names - pronouns, and selecting one is a link to a detail page… what descriptor do you prefer to be in the menu at the top?

Here’s my response:

I prefer “Choose…” with the ellipses and without the “one”. It’s a nice simple action prompt and I think “one” is implicit from the type of control. 
I also think “choose” feels a bit more like a singular action rather than “select” but it’s probably me and a really subtle distinction. “Select” feels like you could  select more than one, like in a checkbox group. 

It’s interesting to me that questions like these remind me how much UX design is about sweating the small stuff and really thinking about the subtle differences in language and delivering your message to the user with the least amount of UI noise possible. Good stuff.

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The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers

Truly an amazing tutorial. I haven’t read something that blends art and science to an astounding outcome in quite while. It’s definitely worth reading through just to gain inspiration of how you can look to math and science for wonderous results in your designs. Along with that, it demonstrates a clever technique to make repeated patterns not appear like patterns to the naked eye.

(via Veerle)

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Logo Evolution of 25 Famous Brands

I love seeing how these logos have evolved over the years. It’s interesting to see how many of them have become more dimensional recently: Apple, VW, Renault.

(via @KISSMetrics)

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