Designing Web Interfaces

Show Me, Don’t Tell Me: Pattern Galleries vs Pattern Libraries

2012-02-06T16:58:42Z

I read a post on Boxes and Arrows this week titled Are Design Patterns an Anti-Pattern? where Stephen Turbek outlines the pitfalls of pattern libraries. This got me thinking about a UIE talk a couple of months back where Stephen Anderson ‘vilified’ the set of RIA screen patterns Bill Scott and I published in 2009 [...]

Does It Have Legs- Heuristics for Information Architecture

2012-02-06T03:02:05Z

Great talk from Abby the IA. Fresh style, clearly expressed. Can’t wait for the poster she’s making. Information Architecture Heuristics View more presentations from Abby Covert document.getElementById("post-2067-blankimage").onload();

jQuery Mobile Graffle Stencil

2012-01-20T17:23:17Z

Had to whip up an OmniGraffle stencil for jQuery Mobile. I submitted it to Graffletopia, but it isn’t live yet. You can download it here in the meantime. Just put in the user name > Library > Application Support > OmniGraffle > Stencils folder and unzip. Another great resource to help in your mobile web design [...]

Testing the iPad at the North Pole

2011-12-21T15:50:52Z

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Mobile Web Options: Backbone.js

2011-12-02T16:36:34Z

I was speaking with some of our developers last night about a mobile web options like jQTouch, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch. And then we started talking about Backbone.js. I first heard about Backbone last week from a prospective client who mentioned they use it with PhoneGap to create their apps. I guess I’m late to [...]

New O’Reilly Book: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery

2011-11-29T03:56:27Z

We recently had a new mobile project starting and all of our experienced mobile designers were booked. This gave me less than a week to ramp up a new designer. So I made a quick tutorial with lots and lots of screenshots, illustrating good design and not so good design. Gradually a set of patterns [...]

Choose the best badge for PayPal Access- Win an iPad 2

2011-10-13T21:13:14Z

eBay debuted their new payments identity technology, PayPal Access, at the X.Commerce Innovate conference this week. Take a minute to complete this survey and pick your favorite design for the PayPal Access “identity badge”: start survey . You can win an iPad 2. Survey completion and a valid email are required (we will not spam [...]

Share Bad Mobile Apps and Win a Copy of “Simple & Usable”

2011-07-26T00:46:54Z

Win a copy of my favorite new book, Simple and Usable: web mobile and interaction design, by submitting screenshots or links to the worst mobile apps you have used. I’m on the second to last chapter of my new book, Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, and I am looking for fodder for final chapter on Anti-Patterns. [...]

Examples for Functionality, Gamification, and Feedback Loops

2011-07-20T02:30:27Z

I noticed an article on bokardo, Joshua Porter’s blog, about Functionality, Gamification, and Feedback Loops. He has some insightful comments on the Wired magazine article Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops. I saw a great example of gamification and feedback loops in the iPad app Kobo. Kobo is an alternative to iBook. Unlike iBook, Kobo has [...]

End to End Experience Design

2011-06-22T17:06:10Z

UX Magazine published my most recent article, End to End Experience Design today. Take a look, it has lots of pictures and even comes with a helpful checklist: Thank you to Pascal Raabe for the great design. document.getElementById("post-2018-blankimage").onload();