Oliver Reichenstein, Learning to See
It’s a long read, and some of it may seem a bit navel-gazing (how many “good vs. great design” articles can one read?), but it all comes down to Fingerspitzengefühl.
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Now don’t forget: all diagrams are destined for the garbage.
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Ryan Singer, A shorthand for designing UI flows
Short and one of those that may seem obvious. And/but worth it alone for that reminder.
The usability error you don’t know you’re making
By Dr. David Travis (@userfocus) over at User Focus articles. In a nutshell: be careful about the words you’re using and some of the other things that you might take for granted (e.g., clicking on the logo to go “home” on your site). These things may be obvious to you but might completely miss your target audience. Also: worth it for the phrase “jargon in-breeding” alone.
Simplifying For The Wrong Reasons
At Meng To’s blog. The writing is a little choppy in spots, but this post is thoughtful and the message rings loud and clear: simplifying your interfaces is great, when you’re actually simplifying; but if you’re not careful you wind up just making something that’s sterile and/or confusing. This isn’t just another “skeuomorphism vs. minimalism” bit of navel-gazing — he’s got something worth reading.
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Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
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Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design
It says “Spacecraft Design” but almost all of them are equally applicable to Software Design. Good advice, great list.
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Off Canvas Menu with CSS :target
Over at CSS-Tricks, a neat little “pure CSS” trick for those trendy “under the content” (“off canvas”) menus that are out there. Alas, it relies on the :target pseudo, so you’re on your own if you need to support <IE9.
Life Below 600px
By Paddy Donnelly. (Via Lea Verou.) Outstanding and viscerally visual example.
Essential considerations for crafting quality media queries
A thoughtful piece by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater.
review: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery
Theresa Neil provides an easily digestible, visual overview of today’s best mobile UI design patterns (and anti-patterns!) Find out what works (and under what circumstances) and what tanks in mobile UIs.
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…who the heck is visiting page 964 of 3810?
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Jeff Atwood, “The End of Pagination”
As you can imagine, the comment thread is exactly the kind of potpourri you’d expect from this topic.
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