Quite a few things happened with this month’s MiniFFC, despite having only two general agenda initially—a classic example of being concise but meaty, perhaps? First up: Lean UX. We did Lean Startup last month, and here the focus is on user experience in a lean environment. https://www.instagram.com/p/avtPbNBDQt/ Attended #miniffc this evening with @sheiladelacruz. Learned a lot. #webdesign #ux #leanstartup #mobile #responsive — redelbautista Besides returning to our favorite venue, the […]
Delight me in surprising ways Real objects are more fun than buttons and menus Keep it brief It’s not my fault Sprinkle encouragement Five of the 17 Design Principles for building on the Android platform. Co.Design details from the 2013 I/O session how Google’s team weighs interface choices with “jars of emotion”: The team follows the guiding rationale of psychologist Barbara L. Fredrickson, who discovered that it takes three positive […]
If you work anywhere near websites or apps you’d have to have heard about the skeuomorphism backlash in the past year or so. Basically: you know all of the detailed, lickable, analog-looking interfaces you see on Apple mobile devices (and then the Mac)? Turns out they’re not always the best design for a virtual interface just because they look like objects we’ve used in real life. That makes sense. But […]
Here’s something I wrote a year ago: I panic when I hit Save Draft in WordPress & see the Publish button gets the same “pressed” visual effect. I switch tabs, then forget I’m just saving it, then what I see is the blue button getting pressed, then I panic The probable explanation for this is to disable the Publish button when you press Save Draft. But there was no indicator […]
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