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Beyond The Button: Embracing The Gesture-Driven Interface

From Thomas Joos
May 24th, 2013
18 Comments

As a mobile UI or UX designer, you probably remember the launch of Apple’s first iPhone as if it was yesterday. Among other things, it introduced a completely touchscreen-centered interaction to a individual’s most private and personal device. It was a game-changer. Today, kids grow up with touchscreen experiences like it’s ...

Fables, Myths And NarrativesConverting Our Stories Into Multi-Screen Experiences

From Senongo Akpem
May 13th, 2013
15 Comments

Storytelling takes many forms. In the past, stories were told orally, with people telling and retelling myths, fables and even histories. As writing technology became more prevalent, we began to record our stories, and we told them in the pages of books. Now, our society is awash in different devices and ...

Learning From CinemaWhat Sci-Fi Tells Interaction Designers About Gestural Interfaces

From Christopher Noessel
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 ...

Interaction DesignWhen You Shouldn’t Use Fitts’s Law To Measure User Experience

From Anastasios Karafillis
December 4th, 2012
19 Comments

The key statement of Fitts’s Law is that the time required to move a pointing device to a target is a function of the distance to the target and its size. In layman’s terms: the closer and larger a target, the faster it is to click on that target. This ...

Inclusive Design

From Faruk Ateş
January 12th, 2012
51 Comments

We’ve come a long way since the days of the first Macintosh and the introduction of graphical user interfaces, going from monochrome colors to millions, from estranged mice to intuitive touchscreens, from scroll bars to pinch, zoom, flick and pan. But while hardware, software and the people who use technology ...

Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro

From Daniela Panfili
December 20th, 2011
25 Comments

Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 (WP7), introduces a fresh approach to content organization and a different UX, based on the Metro design language and principles that will be incorporated into Windows 8. It also targets a different market than its predecessor: instead of being designed mainly for ...

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

From Justin Mifsud
November 8th, 2011
70 Comments

Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability. In this article, we’ll provide practical ...

Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones

From Tim R. Todish
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 ...

Getting Started With Defensive Web Design

From Ian Lurie
May 27th, 2011
48 Comments

Nothing ruins a great website UI like people using it. At least, it often feels that way. You put in days or weeks building the interface, only to find that a vast majority of visitors abandon it partway through the process that it supports. Most of the time, visitors leave ...