This week we've focused on workflow and how to fix UIs and designs, and we're also introducing you to two members of the Fuse team!

Greetings

Meet our devs

Very happy to have you with us for another issue of Fuse Weekly. We've gathered some really nice pieces for you this week, and we're also happy to start off a new series in our blog where you'll get to meet the people working here. Since last time we've published interviews with Kristian and Andreas - give them a read!

Design & UX

How to fix a bad user interface

Have you ever experienced a user interface that feels lifeless? Have you created a UI that just seems to be missing...something? If that's the case, you've probably experienced a case of Awkward UI.

Exploring Dynamic Layout in Sketch

If you design interfaces, you probably often work with repeating elements, like rows in a table or a grid of items. While Sketch provides some way of applying the same style to many elements via symbols, it has its shortcomings if you want to make the layout a little more adaptive and dynamic.

The Psychology of Color: A Color Guide For Designers

Graphic design is not just only about making beautiful layouts and fantastic designs but it is also about connecting to the people who we are targeting at. In fact, one can consider it as a part of psychology because designers are tasked to understand and connect with people through designs.

Development

ACCU :: Terse Exception Messages

Users are not the only people who have to deal with cryptic error messages; sadly support staff and developers can have an equally bad time too. Users have every right to complain as they are rarely able to do anything about it, whereas we programmers have it within our power to write better diagnostic messages to aid our colleagues, and in turn better serve our users by helping resolve their issues more quickly.

Workflow & Strategy

Dear Developer. Love, Designer.

How developers can make a designer's life easier. Sort of.

How to give better product feedback

At Facebook, we take pride in our open company culture. One way this manifests is being able to test out every product that’s in progress (also known as dogfooding) and give feedback to the team in an open forum.

Inspiration

UI Movement - The best UI design inspiration, every day.

UI Movement is a gallery of UI design, animation and inspiration. They also have a newsletter that's chock-a-block with great stuff.

Art

A video game that teaches you how to code

“I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think,” Steve Jobs said in a lost interview from 1995. But for a beginner, learning to code from scratch can be intimidating. Enter CodeSpells. UC San Diego computer scientists developed this video game to teach people how to code.

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