Sadly the slides are not much use without Julian standing there presenting them. For me there were two big takeaways:
1 - Design is based on science. In particular there is a lot to be learnt from the field of Pre-attentive visual processing [1].
2 - Its possible to learn this stuff and apply it to your day to day work, to produce better UI's.
Its exciting to see this knowledge start to spread around the development world. Finally it seems that developers are being given the cognitive tools they need to create good designs.
Grr... I hope people attending his talk are better at designing sites than his personal web site there. The think where he makes all URL links, most of which are unimportant footnote links, be highly distinctive colored boxes with a brightly colored bottom border rather than an underline is distracting, annoying, and shows he doesn't really have much sense of good design.
http://julianboot.com/2012/08/design-eye-for-the-dev-guy-sli...
Sadly the slides are not much use without Julian standing there presenting them. For me there were two big takeaways:
1 - Design is based on science. In particular there is a lot to be learnt from the field of Pre-attentive visual processing [1].
2 - Its possible to learn this stuff and apply it to your day to day work, to produce better UI's.
Its exciting to see this knowledge start to spread around the development world. Finally it seems that developers are being given the cognitive tools they need to create good designs.
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-attentive_processing