ByDan Knauss
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Lisa Charlotte Rost offers some helpful tips on how to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations. 🎨
The depth of this post makes it worth a bookmark even if you aren’t building a visualization. I found it helpful in how I look at other areas of design too.
The new iThemes security dashboard looks slick. It’s nice that everything is one page. I’m always pleased when screens and user experiences are tweaked as products (and their features) get more numerous and more complex. The new design looks like it takes a few cues (the good parts) from some of Jetpack’s iterations over the years,…
Christie Lenneville and Patrick Deuley explain how white space “killed” an enterprise app, and how you can increase data density without diminishing design aesthetics. Here’s a good thought: “Enterprise designers can take a lot of great cues from consumer design, but functionality must always be our primary concern.”
Of course we all expected a new default theme soon enough, as the naming scheme demands; I had my money that it would be part of 4.5 early next year. It was announced yesterday with a design proposal complete, and will likely go into WordPress 4.4. The surprise announcement isn’t much of a surprise for the default themes, which have…
This is one of the most fun and thought provoking reads on design I’ve read in a really long time. Frank Chimero has put together what he calls “thoughts on digital canvases“, and it’s really worthwhile. If you do any form of design, or if you just want to broaden your range of thoughts about…
There is a discussion unfolding at Make WordPress about the future design of the WordPress “About” page. Initial discussion points posted by Tammie Lister ask some good focusing, “what if” questions: What if the CSS system was rebuilt from the ground up using components? What if a unified style or theme for design was adopted?…
Forty is a design and UX agency based in Arizona. James Archer, Forty’s CEO, is a founding member of the Gangplank incubator in Chandler, AZ. Forty is a team of six that have focused on design and UX for the past 11 years. Throughout their years, they’ve brought on a lot of young talent and trained…
