Tinycon allows the addition of alert bubbles and changing the favicon image. Tinycon gracefully falls back to a number in title approach for browsers that don't support canvas or dynamic favicons.

Alerts in the favicon allow users to pin a tab and easily see if their attention is needed.

Simplify dynamic JavaScript UIs by applying the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) pattern

Build your website based on evidence, not false beliefs!

UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true. And you don't have to take our word for it, we'll show you a lot of research findings and articles by design and usability gurus.

Research proves attractive things work better. How we think cannot be separated from how we feel. The next time a boss, client, or co-worker scoffs at the notion that beauty is an important aspect of interface design, point their peepers here.

We make easy to use, impeccably crafted iPhone, iPad and Mac apps.

UI development is the hard part. And it’s not the last step, it’s the first step. In my estimation, the difference between:

* software that performs function X; and
* software that performs function X, with an intuitive well-designed user interface

isn’t just a little bit of extra work. It’s not even twice the work. It’s an entire order of magnitude more work. Developing software with a good UI requires both aptitude and a lot of hard work.

Hi there. I’m an interface designer, website developer and writer.

I’m currently a final year Computer Science student at the University of Nottingham. Although my degree is a technical one, my primary interests are usability and human computer interaction.

Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.

As web professionals, we all know that the concept of the page fold being an impenetrable barrier for users is a myth. 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.

In this article we’re going to break down the page fold myth and give some tips to ensure content below the fold gets seen.

I needed a middle ground. Images were necessary to pull off things like bevels and rounded corners and gradients and all those effects that make a button look like a button. But I needed HTML text to allow for easy button creation, and preferably in a way that would allow me to use both anchors and buttons interchangeably.

Run instant usability studies for your website using your real users. You can get it up & running in seconds with one line of javascript, and immediately watch movies of your users’ browsing sessions to analyze their behavior.