UI and frontend software design and consulting since 1991
25 or so years ago we were designing one accounting application that required intensive input of numbers by operators. That was in Russia at the time when personal computers were just appearing in offices massively. Amount of numeric data that operators needed to input was enormous and as in any financial institution the requirement for…
Mr Ramon F. Mendes have published his Omni tools that allow to use Microsoft Visual Studio to design markup and Sciter specific code: I’d recommend to give a try to this great tools, you will love them!
They say that skeuomorphism in UIs is bad but that flat thing that they came up with instead is actually even worse. Most of the time it gives no visual clue to the user. There are two “Trim”s here: one is clickable button, another one is static label… It is not a UI anymore –…
While ago I’ve found article “Inline validation in web forms” on AListApart particularly deep and yet useful. Despite that it was published 5 years ago it is still actual.
I think it is something wrong with modern variations of checkboxes. Consider this iOS version: It is not clear is it in “On” state or you need to click on “On” label to switch it on? But people from Windows 8 usability team went even further with their version: Am I the only one who…
I’ve found first answer in this topic on StackExchange extremely representative. That reminded me discussion we had when were designing the first version of Evernote application. Initially the Evernote has UI organized as “endless tape of notes”. Here is one of sketches that I did at that time: Challenge there was to provide UI that…