I think this is a great read, even for non-designers out there.
Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color
Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to cultural [...]

For those who hear me talk about multi-touch and how we need to rethink new ways away from traditionally what we know as a screen and interacting using a single point, 10/GUI is a concept I felt focuses on what works and fully leverages on it, what doesn’t and provides a solution for it. Generally, [...]

HTC has a new brand positioning called “Quietly Brilliant”. In fact, HTC seems to be getting the fact that a mobile device is now ubiquitous in everyday life. A few people asked me what I thought when I heard the new branding “Quietly Brilliant”, and going back to my British English roots, I declared out [...]

Here’s a great listing of books on Usability. Here are some books I highly recommend from the list:
Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design, by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler (buy in the U.S. or buy in the U.K.)
As the [...]

Kyle Sollenberger sums up 10 User Interface Design Fundamentals, and most of them can be used on almost any design you do other than UI. But here’s a 1 liner I can sum up everything you need to have. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Yes. Just be overly obsessive in every little detail.

Know your user
Pay attention to patterns
Stay [...]

Yesterday, I went to the Norton 2010 Launch, and I must say it is definitely a very interesting and unique launch. It was held at the Singapore Flyer, at one of the event halls. It started out with a very casual registration and dinner. Followed by 3 different games (like what?) that essentially brings out [...]

Usability Marathon is a series of webinars in usability and user experience (UX), opens on Monday, October 12, 2009 and goes through Wednesday, October 21, 2009. It is organized for the second time by UIDesign Group (Moscow, Russia), however, this year the event will be held solely online.
The Usability Marathon 2009 will consist of a [...]

Here’s a great set of presentation deck really focused on getting people to buy in to the whole usability testing. This is one of the biggest problems I have convincing people to actually care about usability. I might be able to use some of this ideas to get buy in for general software testing within [...]

With the advent of multi-touch capabilities, and the iPhone popularizing this capability, together with Windows 7 having multi-touch capabilities in-built to the operating system itself, I will expect slate tablets (i.e. no keyboards, just screen) to be back, better than before. For those who have forgotten, slate tablets died out long ago in preference for [...]

Is it better to have a user implicitly learning how an application work easily by discovery, rather than explicitly learning how an application works through training and books?
If something goes wrong with an application, is it really a “problem between the keyboard and the chair”? Or is it because the “User Experience” isn’t sufficient or [...]