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New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Here’s an emerging UI pattern: a web page loading bar. Unsatisfied with progress indicators provided by the browser, some sites are implementing their own ones to show the load status of the next page...
Authentic Design 16 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Smashing Magazine has just published an article I wrote titled Authentic Design in which I present my take on the flat design trend. Here’s the theme: The recently popularized “flat” interface style ...
Google Authorship Search Listing Blindness 30 May 2013 | 05:00 am
Here’s an interesting way a simple UI addition can backfire. Google Authorship is a service from Google that lets you link your site to your Google+ profile. The “benefit” of doing so is that you get ...
When Infinite Scroll Doesn't Work 7 Jan 2013 | 05:00 am
Dan Nguyen has an interesting writeup of Dan McKinley’s talk about why the implementation of infinite scroll at Etsy didn’t work. Essentially what happened was that Etsy had spent time implementing an...
Watching Them Struggle 6 Dec 2012 | 05:00 am
You’ve probably watched somebody who is not technically savvy trying to operate an interface new to them, likely with little success. Maybe that interface was yours. You’ve spent countless hours cutti...
Redesign Trend in Tech News Sites: Big, Responsive and Content Heavy 5 Dec 2012 | 05:00 am
There’s a new trend in the redesign of technology news sites, which has emerged with the move towards responsive designs. The new wave of redesigns sees the old blog format being transformed into a fu...
Just Don't Make It Annoying 27 Nov 2012 | 05:00 am
I find that whenever I’m designing a user interface, the one safe rule to follow is simply this: just don’t make it annoying. This might sound banal, but there are often cases where blindly following ...
The Gleam of a Better Publishing Model 26 Nov 2012 | 05:00 am
Craig Mod wrote a great article about what he calls subcompact publishing — a term that draws parallels with the 1967 Honda subcompact car. His premise is that the publishing industry has translated t...
Cheating Or Good Design? 31 May 2012 | 08:00 am
A comment on Reddit (by raygundan) points out an interesting technique Apple uses on their iOS platform: when you switch apps, the device saves a screenshot of what the last screen looks like for that...
Cheating Or Good Design? 31 May 2012 | 08:00 am
A comment on Reddit (by raygundan) points out an interesting technique Apple uses on their iOS platform: when you switch apps, the device saves a screenshot of what the last screen looks like for that...
