Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen thinks your innovative iPad UI is too “weird.” I think he should, just maybe, stop worrying about a “back” button.
Tag: UI
iA’s 2006 Facebook Designs, Redesigned
A design firm that will be familiar if you’ve followed discussions about online news design over the past few years recently shared their updated mockups for a redesign of Facebook. And they’re pretty.
After the Deadline
Need to add spelling and grammar checking to any text area in your application? Here’s an open source way to do it, thanks to WordPress and Automattic.
Log in or sign up? – Leah Culver’s Blog
Some ideas about a common problem with register / login forms on the Web. I used to consistently screw this up at Twitter.com, where I would enter my credentials and then click the biggest shiniest button around, which apparently said “JOIN TODAY.”
No Sign-up Necessary (the strikethrough method) – Bokardo
Is there a standard task that your users don’t have to complete when they’re registering for your Web app? Like, say, registering? Strike it out…
Designing with Psychology in Mind – Slideshare
Josh Porter’s slides from An Event Apart in Boston, June 2009.