Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
The Laws of Design: From Principle to Practice
Search
Patrick Haney
September 26, 2011
Design
5
260
The Laws of Design: From Principle to Practice
Given at the DC Design Talks in February of 2008 in Washington DC.
Patrick Haney
September 26, 2011
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Patrick Haney
See All by Patrick Haney
One App, Two Apps: Design for the Device Ecosystem
notasausage
0
180
10 Foot, 2 Inches: Designing Apps for Up-Close & Afar
notasausage
5
590
Getting Shit Done, Build Edition
notasausage
2
380
Getting Shit Done (in 20 Minutes)
notasausage
7
660
Getting Shit Done
notasausage
14
1.3k
Design in a Web 2.0 World
notasausage
2
220
Design for Change NXNEi
notasausage
4
210
Other Decks in Design
See All in Design
Echoes Boomerang
artcloudyu
PRO
0
240
250131_product meetup
motokoishida
0
210
バイアスを凌ぐデザインとコード ―異動直後にどうふるまうか―
kkaru
0
430
Haley's adventure chase
ivettetwin
0
220
Hybrid NW Infra Design Review: Classic Pattern including Outposts & Route 53 Profile
ichichi
2
670
クライアントワークにおける UXリサーチの実践
kozotaira
0
680
問いの変遷
iflection
0
140
もうひとつのアーキテクチャ #kichijojipm
kondoyuko
0
240
NAHO SHIMONO_Portfolio2025
nahohphp
0
830
ビジネス成果を最大限に発揮するPORTFOLIO
ataxi1003
0
190
DC Style Redesign
mcduckyart
0
120
【Firefly Image 4対応版】上手にFireflyにお願いしてウェブデザイン案を出すぞ!
cremacrema
0
1.3k
Featured
See All Featured
Fight the Zombie Pattern Library - RWD Summit 2016
marcelosomers
233
17k
Bootstrapping a Software Product
garrettdimon
PRO
307
110k
The Pragmatic Product Professional
lauravandoore
35
6.7k
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
aarron
273
40k
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
csswizardry
37
3.3k
Keith and Marios Guide to Fast Websites
keithpitt
411
22k
Facilitating Awesome Meetings
lara
54
6.4k
Design and Strategy: How to Deal with People Who Don’t "Get" Design
morganepeng
130
19k
Scaling GitHub
holman
459
140k
Bash Introduction
62gerente
614
210k
Practical Tips for Bootstrapping Information Extraction Pipelines
honnibal
PRO
20
1.3k
Practical Orchestrator
shlominoach
188
11k
Transcript
The Laws of Design: From Principle to Practice Patrick Haney
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cc_chapman/1361197165
http://www.flickr.com/photos/extraketchup/749317332
Design principles are universal
“Like all man-made ‘laws’ they do not exist in the
absolute sense - to break them is no sin.” John Maeda, on his Laws of Simplicity
Fitt’s Law The time required to move to a target
is a function of the target size and distance to target
None
None
Make clickable areas BIGGER
None
None
Hick’s Law The time it takes to make a decision
increases as the number of alternatives increase
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oobrien/7597395/
None
None
Design for error. Donald Norman, Seven Principles for Transforming Difficult
Tasks into Simple Ones
Affordance A property in which the physical characteristics of an
object or environment influence its function
None
None
None
None
Chunking or The Magic Number 7
Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. #2: Laws
of Simplicity, John Maeda
7035559682
(703) 555-9682
None
None
None
None
None
None
Closure No, we’re not finished yet.
None
None
None
None
“Suggest” the box. Dan Cederholm
None
None
None
None
Signal-to-Noise Ratio The ratio of relevant to irrelevant information in
a display
“There is no such thing as information overload, only bad
design.” Edward Tufte
None
None
Color More than just a way to make your design
“pretty”
None
None
Legibility The visual clarity of text, generally based on the
size, typeface, contrast, text block, and spacing of the characters used
None
Accessibility Objects and environments should be designed to be usable,
without modification, by as many people as possible
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oobrien/7597395/
None
None
None
None
Iteration A process of repeating a set of operations until
a specific result is achieved
“Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign” Cameron Moll
None
None
Questions?
Thank You. http://patrickhaney.com