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I recently traveled from Denmark to Norway. Here are three great examples of desire paths, service design and branding that I saw while doing the traveling part of the trip. DSB is the biggest Danish railway provider. They have a very easy to use phone app that let’s you purchase tickets, use your phone as …
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After the research phase of the context menu, is the design phase. Myself along with a few other from the Firefox UX team met to do some ideation and brainstorming. We generated many ideas and then consolidated them into a few main themes. The first of these themes is what I call ‘drag-and-share.’ I noticed …
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A few months ago I began a UX project focused on the context menu in Firefox. If you’re wondering what that is, you’re not alone. The context menu is the menu you use all the time but don’t think about it much. Any time you right click (or control click) you trigger this menu with …
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The last thing I would think of as an example of good story telling is product packaging. But then, why not? Products have to tell a story. In Whole Foods recently I happened to pick up a bottle of Columbia Gorge Organic Juice. (It was delicious if you are wondering.) I noticed a yellow stripe, …
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After my work on the Capture Mozilla badge, Dino Anderson asked to me create a badge for the language learning project he is working on. This badge is to be awarded to all Mozillians who participate in learning a new language (not programming language). Learning a new language fuels Mozilla’s ability to be a global community. …
In preparing for an upcoming meeting, I printed out many sheets of paper to write notes. I soon realized this mess of papers, many of which were from sets of multiple page documents, presented a problem. Enter design solution. I made color coded shapes so I could visually organize which pages belong together and then …
Last month I spent about a week at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, San Francisco Zen Center’s monastery. I was there during work period. It was a fantastic experience. Growing up in modern society, I never experienced being an adult without modern technology like computers and cell phones. Sure I could very easily hide my laptop and …
Has anyone else noticed this? If you hold a mango a certain way it fits perfectly in your grip. Nature you ergonomic genius.
The Capture Mozilla team decided to take part in Mozilla’s Open Badges initiative so we could give recognition to people participating in the Capture Mozilla project. I designed a simple badge using the Capture Mozilla icon 🙂
This was a quick mockup I made for redesigning the Subway Labs website. Feedback was good. Ultimately, they went with a bootstrap template for ease of integration.
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