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Choosing the right scrolling design pattern for better UX

Jan 6, 2025 | blog.logrocket.com | Neel Dozome

Scrolling is an ancient method of reading and navigating through content. For instance, the oldest known printed book, The Diamond Sutra (dated to 868 A.D.), was presented in a scroll format. In our times, however, it is through the adoption of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), especially on smartphones, that scrolling has become a fundamental interaction method.
UX designer or design engineer? Or both?

Dec 10, 2024 | blog.logrocket.com | Neel Dozome

The trend of convergence in industries and technologies has resulted in unique, hybrid roles and functionalities. We had UX designers before, but we now have the role of a design engineer, too. And there is a hot discussion on whether the UX design role should include more engineering knowledge, especially in front-end development. Understandably, this is causing some confusion. Does this mean that UX is identical to design engineering?
Yes, I would buy a Jaguar Type 00

Dec 8, 2024 | uxdesign.cc | Neel Dozome

Yes, I would buy a Jaguar Type 00Rumours about the death of design are greatly exaggeratedHomer Simpson’s car concept sketch from “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” © Fox“It’s hot pink,” I was told. “Like a Barbie car?” I asked incredulously. “Yes! Like a Barbie car,” came the reply. It is rare that anything cool happens to me or anyone I know but I happened to be having dinner with a design-industry journalist (not exactly a car person) freshly returned from a super secret Jaguar press conference.
Death, taxes and milli-Ems

Nov 25, 2024 | dozome.medium.com | Neel Dozome

The traumatic shift to proportional measurements systems in digital designNeel Dozome·Follow8 min read·--Photo by Ag PIC on UnsplashThe proliferation of multiple devices with varying screen sizes and resolutions is changing the profession of design. The necessity of creating something in a way that retains consistency without getting bent out-of-shape across divergent display formats is forcing designers to learn new tricks.
Bill Watterson’s ‘Calvin’ Versus the Marshmallow Test

Nov 17, 2024 | fanfare.pub | Neel Dozome

The philosophical insights that makes the Calvin and Hobbes comics strip a bible for conscious living“If you ask ME, Hobbes,” shouts Calvin in the opening panel of a large-format colour Sunday feature (dated February 02, 1992), “the whole notion of ‘instant gratification’ is a MYTH!”Calvin and his pet tiger (who may or may not be a stuffed toy) Hobbes are out in the snow, as they often are in winter, sledding down a hill.
Design is how it works

Oct 31, 2024 | uxdesign.cc | Neel Dozome

Would Steve Jobs consider a cheap working-class British pub cool? What I used to think about Steve JobsAs something of a celebrity and Master of the Tech Universe, a certain mythology follows the figure of Steve Jobs. A black poloneck-and-blue-jeans clad uncompromising visionary. A divinity in John Lennon spectacles without any mortal or contemporary peers. I used to think that someone like Jobs was psychologically impenetrable.
What is web brutalism, and how does it challenge modern UX design?

Oct 29, 2024 | blog.logrocket.com | Neel Dozome

Web brutalism is a term used to describe a design trend characterized by “rawness.”The term started to gain traction around 2016 and is credited to Pascal Deville. At that time, Deville felt a new kind of aesthetic trend could be seen in website design. To substantiate his theory, he set up “brutalistwebsites.com” (where Deville curated a catalog of websites that he believed shared elements of a new design philosophy). Rawness is a vague term — what does it mean in design?
Leveraging the recency effect in UI design

Oct 2, 2024 | blog.logrocket.com | Neel Dozome

We usually find it easiest to recall the last item on a list of things we’ve tried to memorize. This is an example of the recency effect — the human tendency to give extra weight or value to the newest information. In marketing, a product’s features are emphasized to enhance memorability and attractiveness. In research, though, innate assumptions that privilege information purely because it is the newest is a bias that needs to be carefully monitored.
The problem of the Em square

Sep 25, 2024 | uxdesign.cc | Neel Dozome

The problem of the Em squareAnd, should it be “font” or “typeface”? Any prolonged engagement around type design, wire-framing, or other such design problems can leave one seeing myriad types of rectangles. Tall. Stout. Square. Oblong. You can see them with your eyes closed, and even in your dreams. Some time ago, I published a somewhat shaggy-dog overview of the origins of a typeface that we now call Times New Roman.
“Xwitter” starts to circle the drain

Aug 16, 2024 | dozome.medium.com | Neel Dozome

Over the last fortnight, I was deluged with messages from around the world asking if things were okay in London and I was safe. After a tragic incident, (where a mentally disturbed individual had attacked and killed several children in a dancing class for toddlers) riots had broken out in parts of the United Kingdom. Graphic images of its effects were being shared globally.