Below you’ll find this weeks design & photography inspiration. Every week I’ll post an article which covers the inspiration I’ve found on different websites. By doing this, I want to influence my creative side and develop it even further. Hopefully it will inspire you too!

1. Photography by Xavier Jamonet

Feeling a bit restless? These landscape photo’s by Xavier Jamonet will certainly bring some peacefulness. A really great set of photographs. (more…)

Okay, this is one of those tutorials you’re searching for but can’t find it when wanted! This time however, I came across this tutorial on 10steps.sg. It’s really astonishing to see how simple you can create this type of graphics. It turns out I was thinking to difficult when searching for this or a similar tutorial. You can find the tutorial here. Don’t forget this one and bookmark it asap!

Everyone who needs to translate ideas towards a design knows this. It’s a hard and long process and can be very frustrating too. Sometimes it’s easy to sketch your idea on a piece of paper, but most of the time the ideas are too vague to get it on paper just the way you want it! At least that’s what I experienced.

It doesn’t have to be clear

Most of the time you, being a designer, want to get the sketch as clear as possible. You want your idea to jump off the paper, I understand, but sometimes it’s better to just sketch when the idea is still a bit vague. By doing this, you can easily incorporate the original idea into other ones. You’ll end up with different variations of your original idea, but you can easily choose the best one this way. It’s also possible to mash up sketches to one Uber version (that’s what I do). (more…)

Below you’ll find this weeks design & photography inspiration. Every week I’ll post an article which covers the inspiration I’ve found on different websites. By doing this, I want to influence my creative side and develop it even further. Hopefully it will inspire you too!

1. Photo manipulation by Martin Grohs

A cool set of photo manipulations made by Martin Grohs. I personally like this set a lot because of the way they’re designed. It aren’t the manipulations you would expect when reading the title, but way better! (more…)

Currently I’m busy creating a usability test plan for a rich Internet application prototype. At first I thought it wasn’t necessary to create this extensive document, isn’t it just enough to test the application yourself?

After creating this test plan I can promise you, it’s not enough to test an application yourself. Why? Well, you know how the application works, you built the darn thing! It’s better to test with users of your target audience. That will result in some extra debugging, but it’ll reward you with a better and more stable application in the end.

A test plan, how do I create one?

Good question. It was one of the first questions I asked myself. But it’s important not to reinvent the wheel again. There are templates available for usability testing. You can find them on the usability.gov website here.

These templates provide you with the content a good usability test plan needs. It even comes with some example content for inspiration. Keep in mind however, that you need to convert it for your own use. It’s not just a variation on the content offered in the template. It needs to fit your application. (more…)