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Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page
Sometimes good UX is about being clever. Sometimes it's to make the user happy ...
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How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
You’re in the iPhone mail app, and you’re looking at your inbox, when a new email arrives. What happens?
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The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped
In an essay titled "The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped" , Jon Bell writes:
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The Anti-Mac User Interface
We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.
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Books For Learning to Design, The Hard Way
I present some books I enjoyed, which is the path I’m taking to get better at design and user experience.
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A primer on Bezier curves
A detailed explanation of Bézier curves, and how to do the many things that we commonly want to do with them.
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Treatise on Font Rasterisation
Font rasterisation is, in the author’s opinion, one of the most interesting fields of computer science. If music is the subjective application of physics, then font rasterisation is almost certainly the subjective application of computer science. The purpose of this article is threefold: firstly, to provide an…
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Please don't use pie charts
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...
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The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos
I’m not arguing that making concept videos directly leads to a lack of traction in the current market. I’m arguing that making concept videos is a sign of a company that has a lack of institutional focus on the present and near-present.
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Design for Hackers (the book) is here
It was less than 10 months ago that I told you that I would be writing Design for Hackers. Less than 10 months, and the book is already available. In fact, I just signed a bunch of books for some of the amazing 138 backers of the Kickstarter campaign, and I’m also packing my bags
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3D printed coffee cups
One Cup a Day project is an experiment on creativity and rapid manufacturing, by ideating, designing, modeling and making available for production and purchase a coffee cup within 24 hours, everyday during one month.
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Flash: 99% Bad
Flash reduces usability by: making bad design more likely, breaking the Web's fundamental interaction style, and consuming resources better spent enhancing a site's core value.
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Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans
Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwriting font is so infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention its name to the common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you will likely get a chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll get a look of disgust. In […]
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How Not to Design a Home Page
I don’t envy the print publications. First Web browsers, now iPads… new technology is destabilizing the very underpinnings of their business models. But some are adapting better than ot…
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Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome
Tabs, tabs, tabs. The specialist subject of UI experts everywhere. Should tabs just rearrange horizontally or also detach? How much vertical scroll buffer should a tab have before it detaches? Under what circumstances should it detach? What about reattaching?
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Just another awesome CSS3 buttons
Link-building services are indispensable for businesses aiming to enhance their SEO efforts and establish authority in their respective industries in a faster and more effective manner.
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How to Give Your Product Personality
There’s a really great post on Fred Wilson’s blog (AVC [https://web.archive.org/web/20160320050249/http://avc.com/]) about building a “ Minimum Viable Personality [https://web.archive.org/web/20160320050249/http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/minimum-viable-personality.html] “. Of course, this is a