Design principles
Fundamental pieces of advice for you to make easy-to-use, pleasurable designs. They represent the accumulated wisdom of researchers and practitioners in design and related fields.
Articles
What are design principles?
Interaction Design Foundation
– 19 December 2019
Design principles are widely applicable laws, guidelines, biases and design considerations which designers apply with discretion. Professionals from many disciplines—e.g., behavioral science, sociology, physics and ergonomics—provided the foundation for design principles via their accumulated knowledge and experience.
Aligning your team through design principles
– 1 October 2013
How to spend less time discussing design and more time doing it.
Resources
Emotion Centered Design
This lookbook offers a glance at the tools and methods used throughout an Emotion-Centered Design (ECD) practice.
Microsoft Inclusive Design
Inclusive Design is a methodology, born out of digital environments, that enables and draws on the full range of human diversity.