Posts Tagged ‘User Interaction’
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Inclusive Design
- January 12th, 2012
- 48 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 ...
Read more...Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro
- 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 ...
Read more...Interaction Design Tactics For Visual Designers
- September 9th, 2011
- 32 Comments
Anyone designing Web-based properties today requires a basic understanding of interaction design principles. Even if your training is not formally in human-computer interaction, user experience design or human factors, knowing the fundamentals of these disciplines greatly enhances the chances of your design’s success. This is especially true for visual designers. ...
Read more...New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms
- August 22nd, 2011
- 74 Comments
For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong: we forget our password, our user name, the email address we signed ...
Read more...Seven Guidelines For Designing High-Performance Mobile User Experiences
- July 18th, 2011
- 0 Comments
A positive first impression is essential to relationships. People look for trust and integrity, and they expect subsequent encounters to reflect and reinforce their first impression. The same principles apply to brands and their products. Design plays an important role in building lasting relationships with end users and, thus, in ...
Read more...Resurrecting User Interface Prototypes (Without Creating Zombies)
- May 17th, 2010
- 29 Comments
Every user interface designer is familiar with this procedure to some extent: creating a prototype and evaluating it with potential users to understand how the user interface should look and behave. Users will tell you what nags them and should therefore be improved before you code. So, at the beginning ...
Read more...Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications
- February 25th, 2010
- 116 Comments
Business Web application design is too often neglected. I see a lot of applications that don’t meet the needs of either businesses or users and thus contribute to a loss of profit and poor user experience. It even happens that designers are not involved in the process of creating applications ...
Read more...Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques
- November 17th, 2009
- 38 Comments
The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people ...
Read more...Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces
- October 7th, 2009
- 64 Comments
Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces (via @smashingmag) - Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an application. A complex interface can disorient the user in a mild case ...
Read more...Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface
- September 21st, 2009
- 27 Comments
Though many computer applications and operating systems make use of real-world metaphors like the desktop, most software interface design has little to do with how we actually experience the real world. In lots of cases, there are great reasons not to directly mimic reality. Not doing so allows us to ...
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