[How it works]

Focus on every layer

A good user experience is more than functionality, it is the combination of a great user interface and a very focused set of features. Focus does not limit the number of functions, it limits the scope. Developers therefore needs to define core functionality to avoid implementing nonessential (and often inferior) solutions to overlapping problems already solved by other applications.

What obviously complicates the matter is workflow. Sometimes switching to another application is simply not optimal. For this reason some applications include features that initially could seem superfluous. These applications are either initially well-designed or the result of a more organic approach causing the application to mature over time. In both cases a designer plays a key role in guiding development.

Seymour Papert once wrote that a system will always be more powerful if it is easier to use, and I agree: ease of use is the result of a consistent focus and good guidance throughout development, coupled with an interface that clearly communicates this focus to the user. Identifying the optimal way to do this is something I absolutely love doing and always try to accomplish.

According to feedback I provide good guidance, useful insight and suggestions. I am also capable of creating the visuals needed to support or illustrate my ideas.

A small sample of my previous work is presented on this page. Additionally, these are the apps I currently have available on the App Store.

If you need UI/UX assistance, please get in touch.

Sincerely,
Johan H. W. Basberg

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[Icon for SQLEditor]

Another update of the SQLEditor icon - this time to fit in with the macOS 11 interface guidelines.

[Icon for Sequencer]

I made the icon for EasyGit by Georgios Verigakis. It's a Git server that runs locally on your Mac using your iCloud storage to store your repositories. Online sharable access under your control with no additional costs - sweet!

[Icon for Sequencer]

MalcomHardie Solutions and I have teamed up to create Sequencer, a native UML Sequence diagram application for the Mac. The app should be a welcome part of most workflows.

[App icon for Active Timer]

Active Timer, the best time monitor for your Mac – simply because everything is done automatically. I was the lead UX and UI designer, and made the web page.

[The entire app, all assets and code]

It required a lot of work to make Role Planet the perfect role playing app for both teachers and pupils alike.

[Interface assets, code and web site for En Passant]

Hans and I have joined forces to maintain En Passant, the best looking chess game on the iOS App Store. We're really proud of it.

[A pointing book for kids, with animal images, tracks and sounds]

I made The Big Pointing Book for kids. It contains animal pictures, sounds and images of the tracks they make.

[Icons for the popular Android app To Do List and Noodles]

I made these for Noodles; a really neat to do list for your Android phone ("To Do List" is free and available on all Android markets).

[updated icon for SQLEditor]

Updated the SQLEditor graphics, an application that has saved me many hours of work. All icons made by me.

[source repository icon]

A folder icon for a source code respository. To use it yourself download the file, get info on the folder, then copy and paste the icon onto the folder preview.

[toolbar icon for TexShop]

The TexShop project was in desperate need for a new split screen button, so I made this very plain toolbar graphic.

[final icon for Reveal]

The icon for the image utility Reveal that enables the user to edit some of the EXIF metadata of images.

[icon remake for SynergyKM]

I updated the graphics for SynergyKM, a GUI wrapper for the Synergy command line tool (installs as a preference panel).

[icon for my Stickies widget]

I made the widget and the graphics for Stickies Plus. With this you create new stickies without accessing the widget bar.

[icon for CocoDS]

I made the icon and graphics for this game organizer including toolbar buttons and several other images not shown here.

[icon for CocoDS]

Illustrations made for a long-gone web service (http://dittverk.no/) that covered Mac and iPhone apps/games.

[barrel menu for small screens]

Suggested interface customization years before the iPhone. Roll the "barrel menu" with the joystick to reveal functions/apps.

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