Here’s a great article about how the UI for Twitter for Android was designed.
It touches on seven UI features and behavior patterns:
Contacts Sync with Address Book at Sign in
Twitter account integration with QuickContact for Android
Dashboard
Action Bar
Search Bar
QuickActions
Companion Widget
CAPTCHA has become ubiquitous on the web recently, including on sites we have built. However, in my recent accessibility research for a recent project I came across this article which urges developers to stop using CAPTCHA since, in the words of the author:
“CAPTCHAs fail to properly recognize users with disabilities as human.”
and…
“External projects… [...]
A good primer to implementing ‘progress indicators’ in interface design. Includes discussion on different uses of progress indicators (not just for store checkouts), best practices, and when not to use them.
Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices – Smashing Magazine
An article that questions the theory of making sure all content shows up above the fold.
Over the last 6 years we’ve watched over 800 user testing sessions between us and on only 3 occasions have we seen the page fold as a barrier to users getting to the content they want.
The myth of the page fold: [...]
Is website speed critical to your business?
Consider: A study has shown that increasing response times by 500ms for Google reduced traffic by 20%. Response time increases of 100ms on Amazon decreased sales by 1%1! These are some pretty amazing figures.
The reason is probably that [...]
Interesting article with some key learnings that can inform how Web sites and applications ought to be built. Here are some key callouts:
To create the illusion of direct manipulation, a user interface has to respond in less than 0.1 second. This is a guideline for AJAX-style interactions that you create on sites. It’s got to [...]
The Contact Us page plays a critical role in most websites. For many organizations, it is not much of an exaggeration to say that the entire website exists to support the Contact Us page. But how usable is your contact page? Despite its central role, Contact Us often fails to get the attention it deserves [...]
It’s been just about 5 months since we re-launched the Dayspring website with a fresh design and a custom content management system. We’ve gotten quite a few positive comments on the site’s clean, precise look.
But how has the site performed? Sure it’s a laudable goal to make the Web more beautiful, but, [...]
Three Things
At a Java developers’ conference a couple years ago, I remember hearing a keynote where Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, talked about the three things that a person always has when they leave the house: their keys, their wallet and their mobile phone. The point is that mobile phones have become a [...]
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