Near the end of the summer in 2013, I and a group of other web developers and marketing personnel started to look forward to the West Virginia School of Public Health’s 2014 website redesign. The School of Public Health’s last … Read More
Category: UI/UX
Skeuomorphism
In the book Simulacra and Simulation Jean Baudrillad concludes that “everywhere the Hyperrealism of simulation is translated by the hallucinatory resemblance of the real to itself,” ergo skeuomorphism is design simulation appearing like reality.
Skeuomorphism refers to both a digital … Read More
Videogame UI/UX Model
User experience and user interface design, or UX
and UI for short, may be difficult for some designers
with experience only in static design (print advertising,
magazine layout, and pagination design); however, by
examining other fields that successfully employ UX/UI… Read More
Employing Remediation as a Tool in UX/UI Design
In many contemporary scenarios wherein a designer is working with new media, there is usually a requirement for an emphasis on user interactivity, user input, and repeat-use – as is often seen in application, interface, system, or website development – … Read More
Semiotic Hyperreality and its Effect on Design
The hypothetical inability for a viewer to distinguish reality from fantasy in design – which is known as the term ‘Hyperreality’ in the field of Semiotics (the study of signs and sign processes) – influences the work of designers, potentially … Read More