April 2012
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between the lines: Apple's Guidelines for Mobile... →
Yes, they are likely to be forgotten when days are busy.
betweenblog:
Not new, but good to read it again.
Focus on the Primary Task
Elevate the Content that People Care About
Think Top Down
Give People a Logical Path to Follow
Make Usage Easy and Obvious
Use User-Centric Terminology
Minimize the Effort Required for User Input
Downplay File-Handling…
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March 2012
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Do 320kbps mp3 files really sound better? Take the... →
Compare to the visual stimuli, the auditory stimuli are usually much more subtle. But there are still beliefs that mp3 128kbps has terrible sound quality compare with 320kbps or raw wav file.Of course, technically (data-wise) it’s different thing.
But do you think it’s true that you can distinguish them? Well, you can try it out here.
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“I found a bug on the site. When I change the font to white, it disappears in the...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
This really happened to me before.
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What people do when they pick up a smartphone left... →
Symantec did a very interesting social experiment. They left behind fifty smartphones on random sites in a city, and tracked the log how these smartphones were used by people who picked them up.
The result indicates 96% of people tried to access your personal information, 89% accessed personal app, 83% accessed business related app or files, and only 50% tried to return these phones to original...
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Audio system for minimalist
I moved in the new place lately.
I came up with my next project: building minimalistic, yet exquisite audio environment. Yes, I do some audiophile stuff and it’s been already 10 years ever since I started walking on this long hardly-rewarded road. The first motivation was that I finally found the speaker I really wanted.
This is Eclipse TD510 by Fujitsu Ten. Almost nobody knows about...
December 2011
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Minimalist Web Design: How Minimal is Too Minimal?
One major aspect of usability study is to take out unnecessaries and well present essentials. In that perspective, minimalism is one significant design approach to get things right. This article will help you to think about “what is a proper way of minimalism” with out messing up.
pixelsign:
Minimalism, interestingly enough, is usually born out of excess. In all arts, in all ways of...
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Jacob Nielsen: Kindle Fire Usability Findings →
There is still the fat-finger problem, which the users’ finger occlude a target they are about to touch and it causes inaccuracy/error, exists on Kindle Fire. In addition to this article, I would like to say that touchable area mappings on Kindle Fire and iPhones/iPads are slightly different: actually iPhone’s touch area mapped almost 5-6 mm lower than a graphical object, while...
November 2011
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October 2011
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KevinNuut.com: My Various Programming Tips. →
kevinnuut:
With my friend, hotelechozulu, learning new programming languages, I thought I’d bulletize my random suggestions formed throughout the years. They aren’t anything revolutionary, just what I follow.
Pick a language popular in your interest and have fun with it. For web design, I prefer PHP…
Good tips for programming, indeed!
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Mobile UI Patterns →
This time, I present you an exquisite mobile UI examples.
Be inspired!
Thanks Mari Sheibley!
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WatchI think we finally discovered Tatooine.
September 2011
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The Dark Art of Pricing →
For the all people who are looking for free lancer job in the future.
Pricing hourly seems much easier than flat rate pricing, but because you have to give clients a ballpark full-cost price upfront (the total hours you plan to work x hourly rate), you can end up in a very tough spot if you don’t have a firm grasp on how long it takes you to do things.
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August 2011
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Statistics regarding UX Jobs →
Fun fact:
Most claimed skill: HTML and CSS
Companies want someone who can design, not analyst.
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Design Pattern search - UX for the masses →
Like I mentioned before, looking up some good design patterns are totally fine and make your work much more efficient and easier. Here is a very convenient design pattern search engine, which incorporated with 22 design pattern websites.
Go use it!
Sincere gratitude to UX for the masses
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Myth #13: Icons enhance usability
In summary, Use icons with text. Showing only icons is hard to recognize.
uxmyths:
Many research have shown that icons are hard to memorize and are often highly inefficient. The Microsoft Outlook toolbar is a good example: the former icon-only toolbar had poor usability and changing the icons and their positioning didn’t help much. What did help was the introduction of text labels next to...
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Trauma: Google Streetviewing within a dream world
This game is one of most creative and artistic indie game I’ve ever seen in past few years. In this game, you are in the dream world of incapacitated woman. You can explore this world just like you do in google streetview. All you need is to solve a riddle, which is implicitly or explicitly suggested during a game play.
You can try the...
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Sandscape - MIT Media Lab
Tangible bits - This is how they try to connect a computer and a human with natural tangible devices. The point is, the user does not even realize he is interacting with a computer interface with this design.
crysmoore:
a novel and genius new way to interface with computer systems. the user manipulates physical sand to alter the terrian they are designing on the computer
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Five Factors for Successful Persona Projects →
When I was wondering whether I should use personas for my current project or not, I read this. Then I decided NOT to use personas as I work alone now.
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4 Best User Interface Design Pattern Libraries →
Sometimes you might want to get some inspiration to create a new design. I think it is quite okay to look up someone’s great design example and borrow some concepts behind it, and those links are the portal to useful design examples to inspire yourself!
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