Zerocater is a company that aims to make ordering food simple. When I approached this design simple and minimal always ran through my mind. I tried to break down each essential component to the ordering process and make it as easy as possible…

I wanted to make the Justin.tv page fun, interesting, and more relevant to what they do. If you haven’t guessed by now I chose to go with the Street Fighter 2 character selection screen when choosing to learn about the people who work at just…

3 Weeks ago there was a post made about 6 key lessons from a legend designer. First and foremost I am writing this article in hopes that start ups can take away that you can make a nice looking website that focuses on sales rather than…

The contest ended about 2 weeks ago and here are my final designs. I am going to go over the lessons and subtle design tricks I learned during this process. The key points I will discuss are text colors, interaction design, and why I desi…

A lot of designers use lines of varying weight to differentiate content. These are instantly recognizable by the user but can get out of hand if used too often, and with too much weight (dark lines vs light gray lines.)

Tumblr does …

With search becoming a more prominent part of the Wikipedia experience I attempted to make it more prominent on the page and more simplified. One of the highlighted things is the left navigation, re-organized and moved to the top. There is…

The more I attempt to redesign the wikipedia search results page, the more I see the potential in a full redesign of Wikipedia and the way it delivers content in general. In order to balance the concepts I am presenting, I feel there needs to be uniformity with the rest of the site’s features.

What is Wikipedia?
A free encyclopedia that i…

Photo credit: Tree by Helen Rickard

I have been going on daily jogs lately which have been helping a lot with my energy levels, I highly recommend it if you feel somew…

Occam’s razor, the law of succinctness or “the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one.” The way I look at it is how can you break something down into its simplest nature before racking your brain with a ton of What if’s? I’m not saying that What if’s are bad, in fact, a lot of innovation comes from asking what if. Unfortunately aski…

I arrived at Universal Studios before rush hour and was greeted immediately by a simple offer. $15 for regular parking which has a farther walking distance from the park, or $20 for ‘preferred’ parking which allows you to park pretty much at the entrance. Being only a $5 dollar difference we chose to latter. What’s interesting about this pricing…

Dear Six Flags Owner,

From the moment we arrived at the park, the traffic to get into the parking lot was immense! I know it was rush hour, but rather than having thousands of cars wait in line to go through 8 parking gates, why not bring the parking gates to them. Deploy 8 mobile parking guards to collect payment and slap a fat "sticker col…

Food photo credit: Munchery Blog
The fundamental goal I kept in mind when designing this was “How can I find good/healthy recipes to cook.” I researched several sites and found what they lacked in and w…

Whats wrong with this picture? Design wise it looks nice and clean. Experience wise it is utter crap. The original shows a list of about 30 people. The thought process goes like this ’I have 30 friends who recently published some sort of c…

Every startup that you have ever heard about is fundamentally trying to solve a problem/pain point…well hopefully. They are jam packed with creative ideas and strategies that founders have spent hundreds of hours pondering over. This is the pe…

This is what you see as a first time user on github. It is a quick run down on the features of their product. I know I didn’t look at them in detail when I first signed up, I was too busy setting up a new repository. Anything else that gith…

See why youtube dropped the 5 star rating system to adopt the like dislike model.

Take a second and think about the most used web apps today. Facebook comes to mind as one that your users interact with daily. This poses a huge advantage to you as the UX designer since you are familiar with the same product your users us…

It’s always been a pain when it comes to finding healthy and reasonably priced food. I have always had this idea that there are many recipes, spices, and cooking styles around the world yet a huge problem when it comes to discovery. Most people know the ‘mainstream’ dishes of each country but there is so much that we are missing out on. For the …

Remember the last time you browsed a blog and found yourself opening a dozen tabs as you scroll through the list of interesting posts? Neil Patel’s site Quick Sprout had this effect on me. He is a master of catchy titles. News site headlines require that exact skill. At their core, headlines are the quickest way for…

A very good guide by Ryan Singer of 37 Signals on How to design UI flows

The current state of any news site is overwhelming. A majority of the industry has just translated print practices onto the internet. With physical printing in steady decline, newspaper companies want to innovate but have fell short every time. Their current solution is typical. Plenty of ad’s, with disruptive pay walls to accompany huge bricks …

Kayak is one of the best designed travel sites these days. It doesn’t have all the clutter and tricky ad’s that most travel sites employ to trap their users. Hipmunk is another site that comes to mind with the same philosophy. Yet as alwa…

The more I learned about business, sales, and dealing with people, the more I started to wonder about how things impacted our subconscious. Lately I have become fascinated about our primitive roots. Not many people realize that a majority of …

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use …

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’,…