Since our showcase in April we have discovered a handful more delicious Pixie sites. Enjoy the show:
TrailPix
TrailPix: professional event photography.
Blog (Tag: design)
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- Apr
Interface Design - Chapter 2 - Pixie 1.0
My final university project (completed almost two years ago) was to take SMX (Pixies predecessor) and work on a new interface design. The project lasted five months and included a number of usability studies, eight variations of the design and a great deal of work to come up with something that felt unique and usable.
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By Scott Evans
Tagged: design, interface, pixie
- 01
- Apr
April site showcase
Pixie is fast approaching its first birthday (it was launched to the public as part of the May 1st Reboot 2008) and we have managed to successfully showcase three fantastic sites every month. We are getting quite a big backlog of sites to feature so we have decided that this month we are going to put some time aside to create a dedicated showcase section to the site. This will be the last showcase in the blog and it is a good one! We have example of Pixie being used for excellent causes, some excellent design and an unexpected surprise. On with the showcase...
By Scott Evans
Tagged: pixie, showcase, design
- 26
- Mar
Interface Design - Chapter 1 - SMX
Over the coming weeks I will be writing about Pixie's interface design. While I am happy with the current interface I want to explore how we ended up with the current design and also where we may take the design of Pixie (and the whole project) in future. For me this has been the most interesting part of of Pixie's development and while the programming the app has been a great opportunity to develop my PHP knowledge I have found working on the interface a far more interesting challenge.
By Scott Evans
Tagged: pixie, design, interface