Author: Arianne Omila

Applying Gestalt Principles And Fitts’s Law to Design for Usability and Accessibility

As someone who started out as a graphic designer, I've trained myself to follow the Gestalt principles, particularly the Laws of Proximity, Similarity, and Closure in designing visual materials. Shifting to interaction design,...

manifestos

Function, Creativity, and Responsibility: Design Thinking Insights from Modern Art History

Art movements typically emerge as a response to the socio-political landscape surrounding them. What we can learn from them as interaction designers varies; some translate to our practice more directly than others. Bauhaus gave...

lovelace & gilbreth

Some Lessons From Two Women Visionaries in IxD

Ada Lovelace was essentially the first ever computer programmer. She, in her poetic, scientific playfulness, wrote the earliest form of programming, envisioning a concept that reached beyond the Difference Engine's original use...