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colour/Maplin/Mega/visual heirarchy

Playing Top Trumps with UX

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Alex Poole

Do you remember the card game Top Trumps, where you beat your opponent’s hand with a card that outranks it in some capacity? Well, in UX you can play a ve...

colour/communication/redundancy

Icon design with useful redundancy

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Alex Poole

Using redundancy in design is vital when conveying critical information. In this icon project I added features that would help the meaning of the symbol survive...

accessibility/colour/redundancy

Don’t emphasise with colour alone

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Alex Poole

If you emphasise something only by a change of colour, the meaning could easily be lost... Here's how to make your emphasis robust.

Featured articles

  • How Agile and UX can work together
  • Avoid jobs advertised as “UI/UX Designer”
  • Playing Top Trumps with UX
  • Good UX should bridge the divide between online and offline worlds

Original research

  • Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?
  • Fighting bad typography research
  • Eyetracking metrics (book chapter)
  • How do people find and recognise browser bookmarks?

Good vs bad UX

  • Poster or stamp? Use sensible defaults for product previews
  • Plan ahead when designing semi-transparent overlays
  • Use sensible defaults on forms
  • Supermarket receipt with categories
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