Quartz Composer Tutorial | Building Facebook Home
Meaningful thoughts and flubdub about user experience
design and interactions. No cat content, promise.
Quartz Composer Tutorial | Building Facebook Home
The days of worrying about absolute widths have passed.
Asana is a really great tool for managing your tasks, tracking bugs etc. all by giving you a feature-rich list (kind of).
This is what you see, when you are about to verify you mail. Fits the context.
Storylane does a great job at a discipline, that we call “Onboarding” and which is indeed one of the most important steps your user has to take before entering a web service. Be sure to make as fun and as easy as possible.
“help us to unfuck the internet” nuff said. salon.io
What are the best resources for learning bleeding-edge web, UI and UX design?
Sometimes it´s good to know whether you are dealing with returning visitors or new ones. Make it your advantage!
The guys at XOXCO have a script for that.
Some interesting thoughts on the “new iOS7”
(Source: youtube.com)
9. Not having all the information you need is never a satisfactory excuse for not starting the analysis.
iOS Resizable App Icons Concept by Max Rudberg. This video may be old, but still noteworthy.
If you want to see the future of software UI design, look to the history of print design.
— Daring Fireball: The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design
Ubuntu for phones. They had some nice interaction and useability ideas. Here is a more detailed video with explanations.
Would these things be nice to have? Sure. Would they be great to have? Sure. Would they be cool to have? You bet. But do they really matter? Nope. And that’s why we left them out.
Papertab – a flexible, working tablet that’s as thin as a sheet of paper. Folding and bending as an interaction method is a nice idea. Also, the tablets are aware of their position in relation to other tablets and can form larger images if placed next to each other. By Plastic Logic.
If you don’t upload a profile picture on sign up, asana generates a colored square with your usernames initials. It’s much better than meaningless eggs or avatar silhouettes and your pals will recognize you. Btw: Asana is a great project management tool. We use it.