interface design

Feb 25^th 2016

How do you design an interface which is not only easy to use, works well across all screens and is aesthetically appealing as well?
Like a key to open a lock, your UI needs to give access to the content without bothering the user with the complexities which might lie beneath :)

case studies mentioned:

• craigslists UK
• total jobs
• Authentic Jobs UK (no longer active)
• Bread (no longer active)
• WORKFU (no longer active)

A few tips on how to sketch interfaces:

designing for Drupal Camp London 2017

With our brief in hand, let’s make a start on designing an interface for the new site. You’ve probably already started researching conference websites (please do share you links!) – here are a few more.

web conferences

• New Adventures: 2011 | 2012 | 2013
• MK Geek Night
• UX London
• Smashing Conference
• WordCamp London 2016
• CSSConf Budapest
• Talk Web Design
• Webteaching Today

recent/current Drupal events

• Drupaldelphia
• Dublin
• Munich
• Asia
• Barcelona 2015
• Florida Drupal Camp

useful reading and inspiration

• User Interface Design Principles for Web Applications
  (old yet still useful) by @aral
• Does Form Follow Function?
  by @vangogh
• 5 Principles of User-​​Centered Interface Design
  by Adrian Jones
• Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users by @aaron for Team Treehouse
• Sketching A New Mobile Web by @dkardys for smashing magazine
• Using Sketchboards to design great User Interfaces quickly by James Downes for BOX
• pattern tap
• web & patterns
• Little Big details “YOUR DAILY DOSE OF UI INSPIRATION”
• Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design, Aarron Walter