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One of the fundamental concepts in UX is notion of affordance : the idea that objects should behave in the manner that their appearance suggests. A push plate on a door affords pushing; a handle afford pulling. How many times have you walked up to a ...

Article - Tony Russell-Rose - March 14, 2012 - 4 comments

Google Catalogs is a new iPad app that presents shoppers with a consistent user interface to a wide variety of retail catalogs. Shoppers can quickly flip through exquisite catalog imagery, view coordinated product layouts and individual products ...

Article - Paul Bryan - August 26, 2011 - 4 comments

User interfaces are normally designed to be durable and predictable. People don’t like surprises, and they want to be able to repeat the same actions to get the same positive results. But judicious use of transience can make product experiences even ...

Article - Joshua Allen - March 01, 2011 - 6 comments

This came to my attention via my friend and colleague Sean Christmann ( @seanalltogether ) from EffectiveUI , who writes: The next time you're building software and think to yourself, "Don't worry, users will be able to figure it out," I wan ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson - February 12, 2010 - 84 comments

This could be big. Google is introducing a new set of social networking tools to Gmail. From media sharing to status updates, Google Buzz let's you use your Gmail contact list as what is essentially a "friend list". This makes it compete with literally ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - February 09, 2010 - 1 comment

Part one of this article can be found here . A man could write for days and not say all there is to say about optimizing a UI for multitouch and tablet use. So I'll limit my observations for now to a few specific cases having to do ...

Article - Devin Coldewey - February 05, 2010 - 9 comments

Part two of this article can be found here . As an exploration into the creation of a true tablet computing device, I wrote the piece you are about to read, which, while originally a single 3500-word monster, has been split into ...

Article - Devin Coldewey - February 03, 2010 - 0 comments

Check out this TechCrunch article on concept demos released by Google of a possible Chromium -based tablet. Article Image:  iStock_000015841742XSmallx2.jpg ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson - February 02, 2010 - 2 comments

Google is officially phasing out their support for IE6 . This means we can all start working on more important things rather than debugging for old and quirky browsers. I think champagne is in order! Article Image:  ...

Article - Constantinos Demetriadis - February 01, 2010 - 10 comments

I just noticed that YouTube has yet again updated it's video player. And to my surprise, this time it realy works and looks great! All the icons are in the right places, plus they all make sense visualy. Check it out here: http://www ...

Article - Constantinos Demetriadis - January 21, 2010 - 4 comments