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Gall’s Law and the iPhone.
Gall’s Law and the iPhone.
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
As a follow up on last week’s roundup of 105 Examples of Clean and Minimal Twitter Apps , I thought this week would be the time to share with everyone examples of extreme minimalism in web design , and how with minimal elements, when properly used, so much can be achieved.
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Interface complexity is an issue every designer wrestles with when designing a reasonably sophisticated application. A complex interface can reduce user effectiveness, increase the learning curve of the application, and cause users to feel intimidated and overwhelmed.
Every web developer is looking forward to the new HTML spec, HTML 5. The new spec will birth 20 new elements to add more underlying semantic meaning to
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I don't like pie charts. I don't like them because they fail to convey information. They do that because people have a really hard time ju...
It is axiomatic in modern American life: the longer you are a customer, the more some of our most common, everyday corporations come to disdain you.
Because The LEGO Company get paranoid about this sort of thing let me make it clear that I have no affiliation with them, that my views are my own and do not necessarily represent theirs, and so on. So if you think any of this is official you are as deluded as they are.
A simple cross-browser method of centering tabbed menus with pure CSS and no hacks.
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A user interface rule of thumb: The fewer UI elements a user must deal with, the more appealing the interface.
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
Is the App Store popular because the iPhone is great? Or is the iPhone great because the App Store is popular?
Procedural music, art, computation and some other things.
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