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Design Staff – Micro-surveys: A faster way to learn about your users
ux  design  usability 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
UserTesting.com – Low Cost Usability Testing
Interesting: put up a set of instructions, and folks will shoot video of themselves trying to complete it. About $30 per user.
usability  design  research 
february 2012 by gordonbrander
Rosenfeld Media - The Mobile Frontier: Mapping Touchscreens for Touch
Analyzing the best areas for main actions on a touch screen device.
ui  design  usability  ios  touch 
december 2011 by gordonbrander
Designed for Use
Lukas Mathis of http://ignorethecode.net has written a book on user interface design for the Pragmatic Bookshelf.
book  design  usability  ui 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
The progress bar illusion
Certain illusions will make loading appear 15% faster.
usability  design  web  ui 
january 2011 by gordonbrander
iPhone Passwords
Run it on any ordinary input @type=password. The last letter typed will show its actual value so you're not typing blind.
jquery  plugin  opensource  usability  design  development  javascript 
july 2010 by gordonbrander
UX Magazine: The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover
"The Bloomberg terminal is the perfect example of a lock-in effect reinforced by the powerful conservative tendancies of the financial ecosystem and its permanent need to fake complexity."
usability  ui  design  blog  business 
march 2010 by gordonbrander
Bloomberg terminal concept - Case Studies - IDEO
So much better.
design  ui  inspiration  business  usability 
march 2010 by gordonbrander
ignore the code: Realism in UI Design
Superb.
design  ui  usability  icon 
january 2010 by gordonbrander
Browser Size
...from Google labs. A visual overlay of what people can actually see on your site. With Google's huge pool of data, this is pretty definitive.
design  tool  usability  web  mobile 
december 2009 by gordonbrander
Graphical User Interface gallery
Screenshots of various GUI's and UI Archetypes.
ui  usability  design  learn 
october 2009 by gordonbrander
Treating User Myopia
...users don't read. Pair this with "it's never the user's fault" and you've got yourself an interface.
design  usability  web  ui 
october 2009 by gordonbrander
Virtual Keyboards on iPhone and Android
Ignore the Code has an insightful essay on the details that go into making virtual keyboards usable
usability  ui  blog  ios 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
iPhone Application Design Patterns
A great abstract overview of the most common and efficient iPhone UI design patterns.
ui  design  development  usability  ios 
july 2009 by gordonbrander
Interaction Design Encyclopedia and Glossary
design  web  ui  usability  learn 
july 2009 by gordonbrander
northtemple - Accessibility to the Face
development  design  inspiration  usability  accessibility  ui  web  essay 
march 2009 by gordonbrander
IE 6 min/max-width hack
Cameron Moll's IE expression declaration that emulates min and max-width in one line.
css  web  design  development  accessibility  ie  usability  javascript  ui 
march 2009 by gordonbrander
Susan Kare - User Interface Graphics
Designer of the original Macintosh icons, as well as Geneva, Monaco and other fonts.
mac  icon  design  computer  typography  usability  apple 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
A List Apart: Return of the Mobile Style Sheet
Rich handheld device stylesheets through use of CSS media queries.
design  web  css  mobile  usability  ios 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
w3c: Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
web  design  development  standard  w3c  mobile  css  html  usability  accessibility  pattern 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes
BBC drops the hCal microformat because of negative accessibility effects of abbr-datetime design pattern.
development  web  standard  usability  semantic  hcal  microformat  accessibility 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
Designers of Flickr's top-notch iPhone specific site speak.
design  web  ui  usability  flickr  ios 
november 2008 by gordonbrander
Information Architects: The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
...on 16px base font size.
web  design  typography  usability 
october 2008 by gordonbrander
Relative readability / Wilson Miner
On Wilson's re-design and the 16px base font size standard.
design  web  typography  usability 
october 2008 by gordonbrander
Designing the UI of Things app for iPhone
ui  design  usability  ios 
september 2008 by gordonbrander
Aza’s Thoughts
Aza Raskin's blog. Aza is a brilliantly unorthodox (and famous) UI designer.
design  web  UI  blog  usability  javascript 
june 2008 by gordonbrander
The more UI elements the user has to interact with, the less appealing it seems.
Daring Fireball
UI  usability  design 
march 2007 by gordonbrander
Great Design Is In The Details » Jaredigital Articles
The littlest details can make the biggest difference. Jared looks at an IKEA mug and proves it.
design  usability  detail  UI 
february 2007 by gordonbrander
How to Convince a Client They Don't Need a Splash Page
a follow up to "how to convince a client they don't need music on their site". That is pretty funny to me.
usability 
october 2006 by gordonbrander

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