- Thursday, January 3, 2013
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Updated Omnigraffle Stencil for Bootstrap v2.2 →
In February of 2012, Elliott meticulously built and released an Omnigraffle stencil for Twitter Bootstrap 2. Like Bootstrap itself, Elliott’s stencil was exhaustive and popular. His announcement ranks among the most visited posts all-time on Viget’s Inspire blog.
Internally, while Viget rarely uses the Bootstrap framework for front-end development, the Omnigraffle stencil is a favorite tool among our UX team. For rapid wireframing, an extensive and current library of UI elements can be indispensable.
- Monday, September 3, 2012
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Rethinking On-Site Notifications →
You’ve seen these before, right? Notifications, or, more correctly on-site notifications. Typically red and badge-like, they are designed to alert you to content on a website that has changed or that may require your attention. Well-intentioned and, as you can see, adopted by industry heavyweights. That’s nice. But is this design pattern actually good user experience?
- Tuesday, July 17, 2012
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The Risks & Rewards of Building Next Generation Websites →
Here at Viget, we try very hard to stay current on everything web. In many cases, this can mean simply executing or updating our view of industry best practices in UX, Design, and Development. In other, more exciting instances, it can mean testing not only the limits of technology, but of ourselves as creative professionals.
In recent weeks, the super cool blacknegative.com has made its rounds in the office. (If you haven’t seen it, grab your headphones and jump there now. You’re in for a treat.) In a very general sense, blacknegative.com is some inspiring stuff, an emotive experience that illustrates what’s possible and what the future of the web can look like. In my mind, it belongs to an emerging class of websites—like space.angrybirds.com, nikebetterworld.com and our own teamviget.com—that rethink many of the traditional web patterns, introducing uncommon interactions, motion, and design.
While I personally love these executions, it’s important for me as a UX designer to honestly evaluate the implications and appropriateness of these super interactive websites as they become more common.
