Posts Tagged ‘Design Patterns’
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Learning From CinemaWhat Sci-Fi Tells Interaction Designers About Gestural Interfaces
- March 1st, 2013
- 30 Comments
One of the most famous interfaces in sci-fi is gestural — the precog scrubber interface used by the Precrime police force in Minority Report. Using this interface, Detective John Anderton uses gestures to “scrub” through the video-like precognitive visions of psychic triplets. After observing a future crime, Anderton rushes to the ...
Read more...UX Design For MobileDesigning For Device Orientation: From Portrait To Landscape
- August 10th, 2012
- 28 Comments
The accelerometer embedded in our smart devices is typically used to align the screen depending on the orientation of the device, i.e. when switching between portrait and landscape modes. This capability provides great opportunities to create better user experiences because it offers an additional layout with a simple turn of ...
Read more...User Experience Takeaways From Online Car Shopping
- June 13th, 2012
- 5 Comments
Emergency car shopping is no fun. This past month was the second time I had to shop for a car in a short timeframe without advance warning. Like most informed shoppers, I went online to get a feel for my options, armed with knowledge of what I was looking for: ...
Read more...UI Patterns For Mobile Apps: Search, Sort And Filter
- April 10th, 2012
- 15 Comments
As I was waiting for a table at a local restaurant the other day, I flipped through a couple of the free classified papers. I was shocked to realize how dependent I’ve grown on three simple features that just aren’t available in the analog world: search, sort and filter. AutoDirect and ...
Read more...Redesigning The Country Selector
- November 10th, 2011
- 157 Comments
The country selector. It’s there when you create an account for a new Web service, check out of an e-commerce store or sign up for a conference. The normal design? A drop-down list with all of the available countries. However, when conducting a large session of user testing on check-out ...
Read more...Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones
- October 6th, 2011
- 15 Comments
In your pocket right now is the most powerful “remote control” (as Drew Diskin put it) that has ever existed. It is no ordinary remote control. It can harness everything that all of the previous mass media (television, radio, Internet, etc.) can do. People aren’t using them just for simple ...
Read more...10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To
- June 23rd, 2009
- 88 Comments
Design patterns were first described in the 1960s by Christopher Alexander, a civil engineer who noticed that many things in our lives happen according to patterns. He adapted his observations to his work and published many findings on the topic. Since then, design patterns have found their place in many ...
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