yatil. Eric Eggert about web development & design.

Icons For Multi-Touch Interfaces

Jon Bolt explores how changing the discussion from "functionality" to "complexity" helps product owners and designers better evaluate the real impact new features have on a product.

Prinzipien und Muster für das Informationsmanagement in der Digitalen Gesellschaft (Beta)

As video becomes more popular online, we look at a project where video discovery and delivery best practices are beginning to be defined.

User-friendliness is the inevitable result of a smart design approach, not the starting point. Here are three criteria to help you develop a useful design brief that will ultimately yield a great product.

When, why, and how should you go about designing a responsive website? Equator web designer and UX Booth contributor Elaine Simpson breaks down the basics of responsive web design.

… an easy to implement framework of Google+ styled buttons, icon buttons & dropdown menu buttons

This is an experiment in a slightly different format for Smashing Magazine – using a storytelling approach to convey the same lessons learned that a traditional article would have provided.

In flow, the experience is rich and deep, and helps users be productive and highly creative.

In flow, the experience is rich and deep, and helps users be productive and highly creative.

Please note that this article used to have [another layout](http://web.archive.org/web/20130104231015/https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-copy-anything-less-costly-mistake) that got lost in space during the migration of content to new servers.

Even the tiniest amount of empirical facts (say, observing 2 users) vastly improves the probability of making correct UI design decisions.

“The effective use of color and graphics in children’s media is one of the most important aspects of design to ensure that you deliver optimal content and a memorable user experience to young users.”

Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community

Developers can have profound impacts on the UX of the products they’re working on.

Keep signup forms simple and fast, and delegate as much as possible.

Translating Susan Weinschenk's UX psychology facts into usability heuristics.

Apps that are simple, intuitive, and have few features are well suited for enterprise tablet use.

… adapts your existing HTML images for mobile devices. No mark-up changes needed. Just drop it in and forget about it.

As I explained in my previous post, user experience design is a multidisciplinary activity which includes psychology, user research, information architecture, interaction design, graphic design and a host of other disciplines. Due to the complexity of the field a user experience team will typically be made up of individuals with a range of different specialisms.

«Digital news is broken. Actually, news itself is broken. Almost all news organizations have abandoned reporting in favor of editorial; have cultivated reader opinion in place of responsibility; and have traded ethical standards for misdirection and whatever consensus defines as forgivable. And this is before you even lay eyes on what passes for news design on a monitor or device screen these days. […]»

… makes it easy to quickly create high-quality custom controls for your iOS apps, Mac apps and for the web.

Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!