Amazon: Almost 70 Percent Of Holiday Customers Shopped On Mobile (Matt McGee)

It was a mobile holiday season for Amazon and its customers. Without releasing exact numbers, the company says almost 70 percent of its customers this holiday season shopped via a mobile device and the number of Amazon app shoppers more than doubled in the same period. (marketingland.com)

The Year in Design (Jeffrey Zeldman)

Mobile is today’s first screen. So design responsively, focusing on content and structure first. (medium.com)

Falsche Miss Universe 2015 Gewinnerin (Jan Jursa)

Am 20. Dezember 2015 war es soweit: die Gewinnerin des Miss Universe 2015 Wettbewerbs sollte verkündet werden. Die letzten Minuten der dreistündigen Show laufen, der Höhepunkt naht. Der Komödiant Steve Harvey verkündet die Gewinnerin: Miss Universe 2015. Es ist aber leider die Falsche. (designbrief.de)

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5 Standout Mobile App Development Trends for 2016 (noborder.co)

Mobile apps were one of the hottest technology trends in 2015, and they will only continue to rise in popularity next year – for business, health, fun, education, and everything in between. (noborder.co)

9 Principles of Mobile Web Design (Kim Speier)

In case you missed it, we now live in a mobile-dominant world. This year, Google reported that 52% of search traffic and almost half of shopping traffic comes from mobile devices, so a compatible web design is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. In April of 2015, “Mobilegeddon” transformed the marketing world as we know it, putting responsive and mobile websites at the forefront of a marketer’s mind. (hubspot.com)

For @Elon: 8 improvements for the Tesla UI (UNITiD)

Let’s start of with taking a look at the current interface. We think the Tesla user interface team did a great job in integrating the interface with the car and exploring new grounds. Having so little physical buttons is definitely a challenge. For years car manufactures solved everything with physical buttons. For a reason: with physical buttons you can literally feel where they are and their current state, removing the need to actually look at the interface. Eyes on the road is always safer. By introducing a 17" touchscreen they ditched the interface we grew familiar with and introduced something completely new. (medium.com)

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'Learn More' Links: You Can Do Better (Katie Sherwin)

Summary: The phrase ‘Learn More’ is increasingly used as a crutch for link labels. But the text has poor information scent and is bad for accessibility. With a little effort, transform this filler copy into descriptive labels that help users confidently predict what the next page will be. (nngroup.com)

Almost half of Apple Watch owners have used their nose to operate the device (Alice Truong)

For most Apple Watch owners, hands-free control means calling on Siri to take care of simple tasks. But according to a new survey, close to half of them admit they’ve used their noses to interact with the smartwatch. (qz.com)

Animation in Responsive Design (Val Head)

Animation and responsive design can sometimes feel like they’re at odds with each other. Animation often needs space to do its thing, but RWD tells us that the amount of space we’ll have available is going to change a lot. Balancing that can lead to some tricky animation situations. (24ways.org)

What happened to Apple design? (Nick Statt)

Apple today announced its very own battery cases for the iPhone 6 and 6S. And where Apple design chief Jony Ive and crew may have seen a practical way to improve the devices' longevity, the rest of the world saw a terribly designed case — one that makes your smartphone look as if it's undergoing some type of painful evolution into a crappier product. The case is another misfire from the company often lauded for its revelatory design and just the latest instance in a series of confounding Apple hardware decisions. (theverge.com) #design

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How A Logo's Color Shapes Consumers' Opinion Of A Brand (Meg Miller)

We live in a time of rampant greenwashing. Ever since companies realized that eco-friendliness can lure consumers, they've gone out of their way to market themselves as clean and socially responsible—whether it's true or not. The easiest way to show your company is green? Actually use the color green in your branding. (astcodesign.com)

These photos are why I’m trapped in Tokyo forever now (Damjan Cvetkov-Dimitrov)

Tokyo, holy excrements from small undefined creatures! We’re there. First place we had on our list was Nakagin Tower. Spending two whole days there, we finally learned the dread and discomfort of living in a capsule hotel. It was wonderful, apart from the occasional shakeup and earthquake panic you’d feel when your neighbour decides to move his capsule four floors up, at 5 AM. He was courteous enough to leave a box of chocolate with an apology to his neighbouring capsules. (medium.com)

Sketching Gets You Farther Than You Think (Dave)

At the summer Olympics of 2004 in Athens, Greece, Hossein Rezazadeh raised 263.5 kilograms (nearly 581 pounds) over his head and broke the world record. Olympic power lifters are able to accomplish these incredible feats because they stick to a well practiced technique. In product design, a well executed technique or process can help us accomplish incredible things as well. So what are you using to do the heavy lifting? (zurb.com) #ux #design

ABC of Product Design (Marina Yalanska)

Hopefully, you remember our funny but meaningful piece of grammar practice called Basic Grammar for Designers. This time we decided to go further and make the exercise even simpler, so here in Tubik Studio we prepared ABC of product design – the set of features and characteristics we think are important for design of efficient product which is a good combination of meaning, functionality and good looks. Today we prepared the first part of the set. So, let’s get started! (tubikstudio.com)