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Cult classic horror game Yume Nikki unexpectedly appeared as a free download on Steam today, alongside a two-week countdown timer teasing “the next Yume Nikki project.” For years, the unofficial English translation had mostly been available as a downloadable .exe on various fansites, with a browser version launching in July 2016, making its sudden arrival… Read the full article…
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Image credit: speckyboy There are many different ways to focus on the user experience for your website. However, sometimes those ideas are so overused and generic that they may not actually have you typical user in mind. When determining if your website’s UX actually has the user in mind, you should look at what process… Read the full article…
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Whether you’re working on a product packaging design, a greeting card, or even a website background, incorporating one of these line patterns and textures can help you achieve a pro result. No need to spend hours of your valuable time searching for beautiful line patterns. We scoured the web to find the best line patterns… Read the full article…
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About two years ago, I begrudgingly opened Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for the first time. The only reason I even did so is that I was working on a TypeScript project (also quite begrudgingly) and I was tired of fighting with the editor and the compiler and all of the settings that I needed… Read the full article…
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I bought an LG OLED TV last year, thinking it was the best option for a living room TV at the time. When Nvidia unveiled what it calls Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs) at CES earlier this week, my heart sank. These 65-inch displays are essentially giant gaming monitors, complete with support for 4K, HDR,… Read the full article…
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There’s an old Yorkshire saying: ‘If tha ever does owt for nowt, do it for thi sen.’ For those who don’t speak fluent Tyke, it translates like this: ‘If you ever do something for nothing, do it for yourself.’ These are words that all creatives should have tattooed on their drawing arm. Nothing you do… Read the full article…
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Put your hand up if you haven’t updated your design portfolio website for months. Maybe years? When you’re working flat-out on final-year projects, freelance commissions or a consuming day job, sprucing up your portfolio can quickly drop down the to-do list. But it doesn’t have to. The best way to approach your portfolio is to… Read the full article…
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By Steven Hoober A common complaint about bringing UX designers onto a project team is that they waste time creating design artifacts. This is purportedly antithetical to modern development methodologies that value code over process. However, this is not my experience at all. I’m not arguing that creating design artifacts is all that design is… Read the full article…
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By Jon Walter Many modern experiences that are supposed to satisfy our intrinsic needs often have the opposite effect. As the Time article “You Asked: Is Social Media Making Me Miserable?” described, users of the social-media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram experience depression and anxiety after perusing their feeds. And why not? Their feeds deliver… Read the full article…
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By Jim Ross UX researchers must frequently deliver bad news to the creators of products and user interfaces. After we’ve conducted expert reviews, competitive analyses, usability testing, or user research, the end result is often telling our clients, stakeholders, designers, and other project team members about all the problems we’ve found in their product. Even… Read the full article…
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Seven games are hitting the PS4 and PlayStation Vita this week, including The Count Lucanor, Planetbase, and more. As listed by PS Blog, check out the gallery below for the seven PlayStation releases of the week, along with release dates and official descriptions: The Count Lucanor (Vita) Energy Invasion (PS4, Vita) Happy Drummer (PS4) Little… Read the full article…
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Join Max Scoville, Brian Altano, Andrew Goldfarb, and Alanah Pearce as they discuss all the PlayStation news they could dig up, such as new details on God of War, a Metal Gear Survive single-player trailer, the promise of tons of new PSVR games this year. Plus, some fun discussion about the games we’ve been playing…. Read the full article…
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One of the main benefits of being an Xbox Live Gold subscriber is definitely the fact that each month you get access to a range of free games across the Xbox One and Xbox 360 platforms. If you’re an Xbox One owner, backwards compatibility means you get to take advantage of the Xbox 360 titles too…. Read the full article…
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Boom Shacka Locka. Imagine, playing a game where you play rocket car soccer (basically), but then instead of soccer the developers create a game mode that is essentially rocket car basketball. That is Rocket Leagues Hoops mode in a nutshell. It is high-speed, high-flying action all the time. This however comes with a new difficulty curve, as… Read the full article…
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Everybody is a designer?—?uniting your team in empathy for the users Why you need a product development process in which empathy for the users is the binding material of the whole team. In modern product development, waterfall methodologies seem ancient. Everybody has already gone agile or is in the midst of the transition. Teams work more and… Read the full article…
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So Jason Fried are you planing to bring back the Campfires to the navigation? Read the full article…
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When it comes to website personalization, designers have a lot of opinions. Is the research and hassle of designing a personalized interface worth the reward? For big companies such as Amazon and Netflix, personalization has been a game-changer. But what about for your website? Can you use personalization to a great benefit as well? Here,… Read the full article…
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For such a small design element, buttons sure are a complicated one to tackle. It makes sense, what with call-to-action buttons serving as the next step in your visitors’ path to conversion. Mess that up and you might as well say “bye-bye” to business. Though we have a good understanding of the types of button… Read the full article…
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Nvidia announced a beta for its GeForce Now game streaming service for the Mac last year, and now it’s finally coming to Windows PCs. Starting this week, beta users of the GeForce Now Mac client will be able to install and run the Windows app. This brings the beta service far beyond its roots as… Read the full article…
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It’s 28 years since Photoshop was released into the world. In that time, Adobe has built the software into the ultimate image manipulation tool, used daily by professionals and hobbyist creatives alike – many of whom could count Photoshop keyboard shortcuts as their second language. The latest update, Photoshop CC 2018 (version 19), dropped in… Read the full article…
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