I’m about to criticize myself along with most of the UX writers out there with what I am about to say. The constant comparison of UI and UX either as the same thing or disparate things, are both unfounded and wrong. I am guilty of it, and so are a lot of UX professionals who…
Categories: User Interface
Best UI Books You Must Read
I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately to talk about more books, especially UI books, which I touched on partially once before. It brings joy to my heart to see people so interested once more in literature as a solid and viable source of learning and research in an age of Wikipedia articles being…
3 UI Design Principles
I have a fun one to talk about today, that being user interface design principles. I’ve talked about UX heavily, and in doing so, I’ve touched on UI design here and there, and if you were to read the omnibus of my UX writing here, you’d be able to assemble a fairly good set of…
What is User Interface Automation?
I originally found myself in a bit of a predicament this week, without a topic I really felt like writing about. I have to be honest, that does happen from time to time, but it’s always a bit of dismay to experience. However, the other day, someone asked me a question that actually was just…
Killer UI Layout Themes for Your Website
It’s no small secret that when it comes to UI layout in web design, a lot of people become stumped in one of several ways. Often, people will try too hard to be original and unique, resulting in excessive overdesign and unnecessary elaboration. Another problem is that people will try too hard to mimic the…
Apple User Interface Guidelines Your Startup Should Live By
Apple user interface guidelines might be more like those of other systems than you might think. While Apple products do have a decidedly unique and non-standard mindset and methodology, there are some rules to computing both in mobile and PC that transcend platform. It is these transcendental traits that play the heaviest role in interface design,…
New YouTube Interface – Same Old Problems
It’s been a few years since they purchased YouTube and for the most part this has been a marriage made in heaven. The joining of Google and YouTube accounts has mostly added a rather nice layer of convenience and accessibility for everyone involved. It’s no secret that Google has a crack team of programmers, so…