Jon Kalko, Associate Creative Director of Frog, talked to the audience about how to remain relevant in the rapidly changing market of design research. The growing trends of outsourcing creative jobs to Asia, from manufacturing then to graphics design and now design research, are putting designers of every specialties at risk of being displaced. Aside [...]

Philosophically speaking, the perfect UI is invisible. User expenses no mental effort on the UI and he is completely connected to the system. Running along that line of thinking, such UI is also very hard to make in reality (it’s invisible, get it? ). More likely than not, designers rely on some kind of signage [...]

I bump into a cool UI feature on mashable.com this lazy Sunday. Mouse-over regions of their pages invokes a ‘Drag to Share’ transient message over the region. If you bite and drag the region, the browser window turns dark and a tray of web destinations drops down from the top. Drag is the new click.

If they can make the tactile feedback at high (enough) resolution, online shopping for high-touch items may become more predictable in the future.

50+ Screenshots of the new Android cupcake on Flickr