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Date: 2016/12/06

medium.com

Animation: Jump-through

Recently a call for help caught my eye; asking how to implement a fancy 'getting location' animation on Android: I immediately thought this was a prime candidate for an AnimatedVectorDrawable (AVD hereafter) so set out to demonstrate one way to implement this. Some people asked I did this... so here's a breakdown.

oreilly.com

Basic principles for designing voice user interfaces

For more from Cathy Pearl on VUIs, check out her in-person training and her session at the upcoming O'Reilly Design Conference, March 19-22, 2017, in San Francisco. This is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of " Designing Voice User Interfaces," by Cathy Pearl; any cross-reference links to other areas of the book will be unavailable, as this excerpt is part of a larger work.

theoutline.com

The Outline

It's not for everyone. It's for you.

10x16.com

10x16: a group of designers and artists countdown their top ten favorite albums of the year

19 visual artists countdown their 10 favorite albums of 2016 with reimagined cover art.

helloheco.com

Heco

Heco is the Chicago-based studio of JT Helms and Matt Cowen. We make better user experiences and more interesting brands, and try to find inner peace.